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CANADA 



CANADA AND EUROPE 



A map of comparative locations in like latitudes. Stockholm, for illustration, is as far north as the 

 center of Hudson Bay ; Paris is just south of the latitude of the international boundary. 



nearly four times the normal. The table below 

 shows the distribution of the population by 

 provinces, the density of population and the 

 number of males and females. For the growth 

 of population in the provinces, see the article 

 on each province, in these volumes. 



In ten years the urban population increased 

 four times as much as the rural, and in Ontario 

 and the three Maritime Provinces the rural 

 population is actually decreasing. The relative 

 growth of cities has been greatest in the West- 

 ern provinces, where many flourishing towns 



POPULATION OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA 



Urban and Rural Communities. Fully as 

 noteworthy as the increase in population as a 

 whole has been the marked growth of cities and 

 towns. In 1901 the urban population of the 

 Dominion was only 37.6 per cent of the total, 

 while in 1911 it had risen to 45.5 per cent. 



have risen "over-night." Calgary's population 

 from 1901 to 1911 increased 994 per cent; 

 Vancouver's, 272 per cent, and Winnipeg's, 221 

 per cent. Many other cities, both in the east 

 and west, increased forty or fifty per cent or 

 more. About 2,354,000 people, or 32.7 per cent 



