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Population of the principal cities and towns, 1911 :—

Cities

Population, 1911

Cities

Population, 1911

Montreal.

Toronto.

Winnipeg

Vancouver

Ottawa.

Hamilton

Quebec

470,480

376,538

136,035

100,401

87,062

81,969

78,190

Halifax. London. Calgary. St. John. Victoria. Regina

46,619 46,300 43,704 42,511 31,660 30,213

There are no complete vital statistics collected for the Dominion. Declared settlers arrived in Canada during 4 years :

Nationality

From the United States

English and Welsh

Irish

Scotch.

Austro-Hungarian

German

Scandinavian

French and Belgians

Italians

Hebrews

Russians and Finlandei

Other Nationalities

Total

Number of Immigrants arrived in the Years ended March 31

1908-9

59,832

37,482

3,609

11,810

10,798

1,340

1,887

2,658

4,228

1,636

4,216

7,412

146,908

1909-10

103,798

41,144

3,940

14,706

9,757

1,533

3,387

2,637

7,118

3,182

6,021

11,571

1910-11

121,451

86,212 6,877

29,924

16,285 2,533 5,382 3,604 8,359 5,146 8,753

16,558

1911-12

133,710

96,806

8,327

32,988

21,651

4,664

4,086

3,095

7,590

5,322

11.451

23,947

208,794

311,084

354,237

a J^}^^^ *^^® ^®^^' settlers obtained 6,252,960 acres of free land : in 1910 6,650,880 acres ; and in 1911, 7,116,640 acres. '

Under an Act passed in 1903, a tax of 500 dollars a head is levied on C^hmamen landing in Canada. In the year 1910-11, 4,515 Chinese immi- grants paid the tax.

Religion.

The number of members of each religious creed was as follows in 1911:—

Roman Catholics

Presbyterians

Anglicans

Methodists

Baptists

Lutherans

2,833,041 1,115,324 1,043,017 1,079,892

382,666

229,864

1 Including Pagans.

Congregationalists Miscellaneous creeds^ No creed stated

Total

. 34,054

, 554,490

32,490

7,204,838

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