CONSUMPTION IN CANADA—DAVIDSON. 19 
Wooden houses constitute 81.6 per cent. of the total number ; 
brick houses 15.34, and stone houses 3.1. The brick and stone 
houses are probably mainly in the larger cities and occupied by 
the wealthier classes. Thirty-nine per cent. of the total houses 
inhabited are of one story, while 43 per cent. of the wooden 
houses are of that humble size, and 19 per cent. and 20 per cent. 
only of the brick and stone houses fail to reach the dignity of a 
second story or even of an additional half story. The story and 
a half and two story buildings are 57 per cent. of the whole, but 
60 per cent. of the stone and 67 per cent. of the brick houses 
are of these dimensions. Of the houses which have three stories 
or more 14,211, or 59 per cent., are brick, 4,658, or 19 per cent. 
are stone, and 5,746 only, or 22 per cent., are of wood. 
The Census Reports do not enable us to discover whether 
there is a larger number of rooms or of stories in a stone or brick 
house then in a wooden house. Probably, the advantage in size 
is in favor of the stone and brick houses; but there is no definite 
information on the subject, and we must rest content with the 
statement given in the Census Report, 1891 (Vol. IV., Table A., 
pp. 378, 379) of the percentage of houses of different sizes in the 
several provinces of the Dominion :— 
PERCENTAGES OF Houses witH Rooms— | OF Ouse WITH 
STORIES— 
Aes ae Opa ess | 4 | 5 | 610 {11-15 is ree dh geo) fae | 4 
| oO. 
@anadaryce ose 2.9} 8.0) 11:0) 15.8) 12.2] 48.3] 5.6] 1.2'63.5) 33.6] 2.5) 0.4 
Br. Columbia. .) 21.1) 13.6| 10.2) 18.5] 11.4] 25.9] 2.6] 1.6)72.4) 26.3] 1.2) 0.1 
Manitoba ......;12.0)20.2)17.3/}17.0 10.1); 21.4} 1.3, 0.6,56.9| 42.1} 0.8!) 0.2 
N. Brunswick..| 2.4] 8.7} 9.8 14.4/11.6! 43.2} 8.2) 1.7'79.9|16.7] 3.0] 0.4 
NovaScotia....} 1.0) 5.4] 8.4)15.4/12.9) 50.2] 5.8) 0.9)85.7)/12 7| 1.5] 0.1 
Onttario....2..-: Wet) Sel WoO LS 312575223)! 653) 025274 45.1) 274) Onl 
PB. EK Island ...) 0:9) 7.3) 9:7)16.4, 12.8) 45.7) 6.5) 1.7/80.8) 17.7] 1.4: 0.1 
@webeo 2. :55..- 3.7| 10.9] 16.2] 20.2) 11.7) 31.2! 4.7! 1.3 69.8) 25.9) 3.4] 0.9 
The Territories. 19.5 24.3] 16.7 13.3) 8.1} 14.1} 1.3] 0.7) 66.9 30.5) 0.5} 0.1 
The house accommodation afforded varies from province to 
province. The largest percentage of brick houses occurs in 
Ontario, the smallest in Nova Scotia, where 99.4 of the houses 
are built of wood. The largest percentage, though not the 
