CONSUMPTION IN CANADA DAVIDSON. 



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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 : 



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 



