DOMINION OP CANADA. 



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Totals for the group . 

 Total population . . 



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1.191,516 



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 18,000 



80,000 



106,814 



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8.285,949 



62,260 

 2^515 

 49,459 



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 14,S70 



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167..M 1 

 80(1.071 



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7,515 



l^s78 

 981 



61,851 



::-. .'14 



18 61 



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 17-19 



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14-05 



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146-78 

 41-75 



47-26 

 8-10 



57-48 



17-81 



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4M.523 



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8,601,575 



154,442 

 67,554 



92.767 

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61 



197 





129.560 

 18,067 



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604,601 



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958 

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9 60 



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lie result shows that, as in the United States 

 d in other countries, there has been within the 

 past decade a marked gravitation of population 

 livm tlie rural to the urban districts, a fact 

 which mainly accounts for the actual decrease of 

 Population in some of the census districts. 

 Tims, while the total population of the Dominion 

 shows an increase during the decade 1881-'91 

 of 11 -fit; per cent., the urban population has 

 been as follows: Cities and towns having over 

 :>.<MMI inhabitants, 40'8 per cent.; over 3,000, 

 H-!> per cent,; over 1,500, 20-3 per cent. The 



\ e table is a statement of the population of 



ada for 1871, 1881, and 1891, by provinces, 

 parliamentary general election was held on 

 h ."). The result, in brief, was that the ex- 



ng ministry was sustained at the polls by a 

 y not notably less than that which had 

 sustained them in the last House of Commons. 

 On April 29, this, the seventh Parliament of 

 Canada, met in its first session, Hon. Peter 

 White having been elected Speaker, and was 

 formally opened by His Excellency Lord Stanley 

 of Preston, Governor-General, with the follow- 



speech: 



r onorable Gentlemen of the Senate : Gentlemen of 

 H'Hise of Commons: \ am glad to welcome you to 

 tin- duties of the first session of a new Parliament, 

 which I hope will be memorable for wise delibera- 

 tions and for measures adapted to the progress and 

 development of the Dominion. 

 The season in which you are assembled has opened 

 iciously tor the industries of our people. Let us 

 that their labors may be crowned with fruitful 

 returns from land and sea, and that the great resources 

 nf t 'anada may continue to reward the toil and enter- 



J of its inhabitante. 

 - advisers, availing themselves of opportunities 

 h wen- presented in the closing months of last 

 .msed the Administration of the United States 

 -.minded of the willingness of the Government 

 of Canada to join in making efforts for the extension 

 and development of the trade between the republic 

 and the Dominion, as well as for the friendly adjust- 

 ment of those matters of an international character 

 which remain unsettled. 1 am pleased to say that 

 tlu-r representations have resulted in an assurance 

 that, in ( M.ibcr next, the Government of the I'nitcd 

 will be prepared to enter on a conference to 

 enii-ider the best means of arriving at a practical BO- 

 Intion of these important questions. The papers re- 

 lating to this subject will be laid before you. 



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I 'ndcr those circumstances, and in the hope that 

 tin- proposed conference may result in arrangement.* 

 beneficial to both countries. you will be culled upon 

 to consider the expediency of extending, for the pres- 

 ent season, the principal provisions of the protocol 

 annexed to the Washington treaty, 1888, known as 

 the Modus Vi rt mil. 



A disposition having been manifested in the United 

 Kingdom to impose on sea-going ships engaged in the 

 cattle trade increased safeguards lor lite un<l L'n-uu-r 

 ivMrietions against improper treatment, a e;uvt'ul in- 

 quiry has been made as to the incidents of that trade 

 in si> far as this country is concerned. The evidence 

 elicited on this inquiry will be laid before you. While 

 I am glad to learn that our shipping is free from re- 

 proach in that regard, vour attention will be invited 

 to a measure which will remove all reasonable appre- 

 hensions of abuses arising in the future in connection 

 with so important a branch of our connneiv. . 



The early coming into force of the Imperial Statute 

 relating to the vice-admiralty courts of the Empire 

 has made it necessary to revise the laws in f<>r<-c in 

 Canada respecting our courts of maritime jurisdic- 

 tion, and a measure will therefore be laid before you 

 designed to reorganize those tribunals. 



A code of criminal law has been prepared, in order 

 that this branch of our jurisprudence may he simpli- 

 fied and improved, to which your best 'attention in 



invited. 



Measures relating to the foreshores of the Dominion 

 and to the obstruction of its navigable waters will lie 

 submitted to you ; and you will also be asked to con- 

 sider amendments to the acts relating t the North- 

 west Territories, to the Exchequer Court act, and to 

 the acts relating to trade marks. 



<;< nth UK n of the House of Common* : The accounts 

 for the past year will be submitted to you. The rev- 

 enue, after providing for the services" t winch you 

 appropriated it, has left a surplus for the works which 

 you designed to be carried on by capital expenditure. 



The estimates for the com i tig* year will be laid be- 

 fore you at an early date. 



Iloiinriilih ti'i iitlemen of tht Stnatt : lltiithinen of 

 tli. /A/ I/A, <>f I'i'ininfmx : 1 pray that, in the considera- 

 tion of these matters and in the performance of all the 

 labors which will devolve on you, your deliberations 

 may In- divinely aided, and that your wisdom and 

 patriotism may enlarge the prosperity of the Domin- 

 ion and promote in even \\av the well-being of its 

 people. 



Death of the Premier. The measures fore- 

 shadowed in the viceregal speech received event- 

 ually their due attention but the mr- impor- 

 tant practical legislation of the session wius in 

 the main, suspended through the sudden illness 



