Page:Statesman's Year-Book 1921.djvu/368

 316

THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — NOVA 800TIA

The Liberal party has

Labour, 3 ; Conservatives, 2 ; Returned Soldier, 1. held office continuously for 38 years.

Lieutenant-Governor — His Honour McC. Grant (December, 1916). The Members of the Ministry are as follows : — Premitr and Provincial Secretary. — Hon. G. H. Murray. Attorney- General. — Hon. 0. T. Daniels. Commissioner of Works and Mines. — Hon. E. H. Armstrong. Minister of Highways. — Hon. H. H. Wickwire.

Ministers ivilhout Portfolio. — Hons. R. M. MacGregor, William Chuholm, R. E. Finn. G. E. Faulkner, R. M. MacGregor.

Agent-General in London. — John Howard, 57a, Pall-Mali, S.W.I.

Local Government. — In Nova Scotia there are two municipal divisions, viz., county and city or town. Five counties are divided into two muni- cipalities.

The county or municipal councils consist of councillors elected triennially by the ratepayers, usually one, but in some cases two, for each polling division of a county electing a member to the House of Assembly. Town or City Councils are composed of a mayor and not less than six councillors elected by the ratepayers.

Area and Population- — The area of the Province is 21,428 square miles, of which 21,068 square miles are land area, and 360 square mile water area. The population in 1911 was 492,338; in 1901, 459,574, and in 1891, 450,396.

Population of the principal cities (1911): — Halifax, 46,619; Sydney, 17,723; Glace Bay, 16,562; Amherst, 8,973; Yarmouth, 6,600: New Glasgow, 6,383 ; Truro, 6,107.

The vital statistics for five years are as follows : —

1913-14 1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19

Births

12,771 12,770 12,382 12,421 12,508

Marriages

3,643

3,720 3,421 3.611 3,585

Deaths

7,527 8,052 7,583 9,125 9,200

Excess of births.

5,244 4,718 4,7'.".' 3,296 3,308

Of the births in 1918-19, 295 were illegitimate, as compared with 324 in 1917-18.

Religion. — The denominations according to the Census of 1911 were :— Roman Catholics, 144,991; Presbyterians, 109,560; Baptists, 83,854; Anglicans, 75,313 ; Methodists, 57,606 ; and Congregationalists, 2,690. There are also various other sects with small numbers of adherents.

Instruction. — Education in Nova Scotia is free, compulsory, and undenominational. Besides the elementary schools, high schools and acade- mies there are in Halifax a Maritime Provinces school for the blind and one for the deaf. A large Provincial Agricultural College is established at Truro ;