The Canadian correspondent of the Times has a long and
interesting article on Canadian parties and the Census in last Saturday's issue. The total population is estimated at 8,000,000, as against 5,371,315 ten years ago; but of this increase 2,000,000 is due to immigration. Of these nearly 750,000 came from Great Britain (only 45,000 from Ireland), 700,000 from the United States, the next in order of number being the Austro-Hungarians (121,000), Italians (63,817), and Hebrews (48,675). The Western Provinces have got 300,000 more of the new settlers than Eastern Canada, and there has been a great and continuous movement of people from Ontario and the Maritime Provinces to the West. The correspondent deals at length with the interesting question of the French population. According to the editor of the Revue Canaclienne, there will be 44,000,000 French Canadians in North America in a hundred years. Certain it is that the French population is not confined to the French province, that the number of English inhabitants in the town. ships and counties of Quebec has decreased, while the French vote is powerful in no fewer than eighty-six constitu- encies in the Dominion. Most important of all, the birth-rate amongst the Acadian is 42 per 1,000, as against 22 per 1,000 amongst the English-speaking population.
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