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Grenville partod with 16.6 per cent, of her people, but 

 was outclassed by South Bruce with a loss of 16.9 per 

 cent. These three last-named counties saw just one- 

 sixth of their population leave their bounds within the 

 ten-year period. 



But the loss is heavier still. These figures are for 

 counties. The statistics for the counties include those 

 for the towns. Xow, with some few exceptions, such 

 as Deseronto, with a loss of 42.9 per cent., Graven- 

 hurst, of 24.3, or Almonte, of 18.9, the towns are holding 

 their own. Consequently the percentage of loss is still 

 higher for the townships than for the counties. Let us 

 look at a few illustrative examples. Grenville lost 16.6 

 per cent., but her rural loss was 18.6 per cent., and the 

 township of Edwardsburg, of which Spencerville is the 

 centre, lost 21 per cent. The apparent loss in South 

 Bruce is 16.9 per cent. ; the real rural loss 19.3 per 

 cent., and the actual loss in Kinloss township 23 per 

 cent. The census informs us that Dufferin was a loser 

 by 15.6 pr-r cent. ; the rural exodus was 18.5 ; but Gara- 

 fraxa decreased 24 per cent. In North Bruce the rural 

 loss was 18.2 per cent.; in East Grey and in East 

 Lambton 18.9 per cent; in South Grey 20.4 per cent., 

 and in West Elgin 21.6 per cent. But what shall we 

 say of such a case as that of North Grey, whose rural 

 loss was 21.9 per cent, while her total gain was 7.8 per 

 cent. ; whose townships of Kcppel and Sarawak decreased 

 by 34.3 and 48 per cent., while her urban population, in 

 the towns of Owen Sound and ^feaford and the village 

 of Shallow Lake, increased by 48.5 per cent. < Or of 

 Peterborough West, adding 20 per cent to the total 

 popiilation, and 29 per cent, to her city of Peterborough, 

 but losing 51.5 per cent, from her township of Galway '( 



