CANADA AND HER PEOPLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND HER PEOPLE.

AX INCOMPLETE CENSUS. By Oable—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, October 19. There is general dissatisfaction throughout the Dominion as the result of the census. Many towns are plan•ning to take their own census. The men employed were political appointees, and many were unfitted for the task. It is claimed that whole streets in one large town were left uncounted.

The Toronto correspondent of the Times, writing of Canadian expectations on June 7, said:—

On June 1 we began to take the decennial census. Ten years ago the total population was returncd"at 5,371.315. it is the general expectation that the census of 1911 .will show a population of 8,000.000. In his Hudget speech Mr. Fielding ventured an estimate of 7,78.),000. During the decade, according to a bulletin just issued by the Department of Immigration, we received nearly two million immigrants. Of these approximately 7-50.000 came from Creat Hritnin and 700.000 from the Cnited .States. The actual figures down to March 31 were j 1.714,320, but during the last two months nearly 200.000 additional immigrants have arrived. Sixty-five per cent, of those arriving from the United States were farmers or farm laborers, most of ( whom settled in the prairie provinces. (If the I!riti>h and Continental immigrants ,"0 per criit. were farmers or farm laborers. 2o per 4 -ent. general laborers, and -2.") per cent, mechanics. Of those from English and Welsh, I.VUMO Scotch, and 45.000 l.rish. Other nationalities are represented J>v lil.iiOi) Auslro-llungarians, 03.817 Italian-. 45.f,7.> Hebrew.-. :sS.ov>t) Russians. 19.349 Swedes. 21.143 Hermans. 12.230 French. 13.70S Norwegians. ">223 Syrian*. 400 negroes, and .">2Wt Hindus. It is estimated that half a million of these immigrants settled in Saskatchewan and Albert:). 4'):>.S<tS in Ontario. 303,."i!Hl in Manitoba. 2."i5.520 in Quebec. 185..")!i'.l in Uriti-h Columbia and the Yukon, liinl 73."02 in the maritime proTims tin' western provinces got 300.1)0') 1,,,„•,. „•■ the new settlers than Eastern Canada. This, linwev, r. by im means shows (lie distribution and -hilling of population during the ten-year period. T'roni Ontario :'ii,l the maritime province there has been a yreat and continuous movement o'' pi'onb" <o th ■ \Ve-|. Probably tb" los- by emigration e(|tlals the gain by immigration. In Quebec, however, the population has be,-n relatively stationary. There ha- been an overllow of French into Ka-tern and Northern On•alio, e diniiiii-bi-d emigration to New England. :;e.| ■< thia migration westward. I'.Ut undoubtedly Quebec will -bow a gnatcr natural incnasc and a sniall-r In-- of people bv migration than the old Eng!i-h province-.