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58 ; girls (24 born in Canada), 48 ; nuns, 6 ; Jesuits, 29 ; other French- 

 men, 66 ; total, 375. 



According to my calculations the habitants did not exceed 600 in 

 1650, besides 40 Jesuits, 40 Jesuits' servants and 25 other Frenchmen. 



The population in 1653 appears to have been distributed as fol- 

 lows : Quebec and surroundings, 400; Three Eivers, 175 ; ^^lontreal, 

 100. Total, 675. 



We must add the usual contingent of French traders, which was 

 very small at that time on account of the war of the Iroquois. 



It is mentioned in letters dated from Canada, 1661-63, that the 

 entire population did not exceed 2,500 souls. This embraces the rather 

 large immigrations of 1661-63, which mark a new departure in the 

 whole affairs of the colony. 



The reader is referred to the statement covering the period of 1608- 

 1645, with regard to the origin of the 127 men who first settled here. 

 W'e shall now show the origin of 475 more during 1646-1666. These 

 men came from France, either married, or unmarried, and founded fam- 

 ilies in the new country. 



Nortli-ivest of i^ran ce.— Bretagne, 20 ; Maine 22 , Nonnandie, 

 136; Picardie, 10 ; llc-de-France, 25 ; Touraine, 8 ; iVnjou, 18 ; total, 

 239. 



South-west of France. — Poitou, 60 ; Eochello, 138 ; Bordeaux, 14 ; 

 total, 212. 



East of France. — Champagne, 6 ; Nivernais, 2 ; Berry, 3 ; Dau- 

 phiné, 4 ; Auvergne, 5 ; Lyonnais, 4 ; total, 24. 



During the same period, 1646-1666, I find 100 marriages without 

 any mention of the origin of the contracting parties; but we may safely 

 infer, from the synopsis just given, that they must be added to the 475 

 whose origin is known, and distributed according to the relative propor- 

 tions of these statistics. 



Therefore from 1608 to 166Ô we have examined 700 men who came 

 from France with their wives, or married after settling in the colony. 



Until about 1645 the greater number of them came from north of 

 the River Loire ; after that the south-western provinces gradually bal- 

 anced the emigration from the north — 



1646-1666. North of Loire, 231 ; south of Loire, 220. 



Immigrants from Touraine, Poitou, lîochelle, Aunis, Saintonge, 

 Angoumois, Bordeaux, found their way to Canada after 1650, so that 

 the Normandy influence was absolute until about 1660, when Poitou and 

 Pochelle came in for a large share. 



The first official census was taken in 1666, and considered imperfect 

 at that time. It gives 3,215 souls for all of New France. 



