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STATISTICS OF EXPENDITURE AND 



greatest absolute number of stone houses, are found in the prov- 

 ince of Quebec, the smallest, 0.1 per cent., in British Columbia, 

 New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The proportion of 

 houses of one story only is greatest in the Maritime Provinces, 

 where Nova Scotia heads the list with 85.7 per cent., and Prince 

 Edward Island and New Brunswick follow with 80.8 per cent, 

 and 79.9 per cent. Manitoba and Ontario show the largest 

 percentages of two story houses, while Quebec and New Brun- 

 swick show the highest percentages of three storied dwellings. 

 Quebec contains 73 per cent, of all the 4-storied buildings in 

 Canada; and twice as high a percentage of the buildings in the 

 province are of that height or higher as in any other province. 

 Quebec and the North-West Territories have highest average 

 number of persons under one roof (6.0), the Maritime Provinces 

 coming next, and British Columbia giving the low number of 4.9- 

 But British Columbia is the province where the largest number 

 of one-roomed houses exist. Twenty-one per cent, of the houses 

 there have one room only, and 58.4 per cent, have four rooms or 

 less. In Manitoba, which stands next to British Columbia in the 

 number of persons to the house (5.2), 12.0 per cent, of the houses 

 are one roomed, and 66.5 per cent, have four or less. Prince 

 Edward Island, on the other hand, which crowds 5.9 people under 

 every roof, sees that they have some room under it, for less than 

 one per cent. (0.9) of her houses are of one room, and 65.3 of her 

 houses have more than four rooms. 



These facts are collected in the following table : 

 COMPARISON OF HOUSE ACCOMMODATION IN THE PROVINCES. 



