The Canadian Census Canada has now over ten million people.
The precise total yielded by the Census just completed is 10,853,778, showing a gain of 17.82 per cent. in ten years. Of the total increase of 1,565,295 nearly a third is credited to Quebec. This proyince, with its large French-speaking element, has grown in population by 23 per cent., and now has 2,869,000 inhabitants. The city of Montreal, with its suburbs, now has nearly a million people. British Columbia has grown even more rapidly than Quebec, and now numbers 689,210 inhabitants, showing an increase of no less than 31.38 per cent. Vancouver is half as populous again as it was in 1921. As the Federal constituencies are redistributed after each Census, with Quebec's permanent 65 seats as the standard, British Columbia will gain two seats and Alberta one, while the Maritime Provinces lose three. Westward the course of Empire takes. its way. Western Canada is becoming far more potent in the Dominion councils.
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