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districts was 12,545. Therefore the rural loss in the 

 sixty waning census districts is 109,669, or 10.82 per 

 cent 



Yet Ontario, with a net increase of 1.5 per cent, 

 per annum through the excess of births over deaths, 

 would have gained 200,183 in rural population in the 

 decade. Moreover, fully 40-4,000 immigrants gave, at 

 the ports of entry, Ontario as their destination, and of 

 these fully 30 per cent, gave farming as their occupa- 

 tion. From this additional source the Province received 

 an increase of rural population amounting to 121,200, 

 without considering natural increase. The migration 

 from her farms therefore amounts not to 52,184, but 

 373,567. 



Xova Scotia's loss of 23,981 amounts to 7 per cent; 

 and the decrease is found in every district except two ; 

 in these the rural growth amounts to only seven-tenths 

 of one per cent. In several counties the decline is 

 severe; Colchester, 10.5 per cent; Inverness, 11.9; 

 Shelburne and Queen's, 14.8 ; North Cape Breton and 

 Victoria, 15.8; Pictou, 26.6. The urban growth in 

 Pictou, on the other hand, is 72 per cent Severe as 

 is this loss sustained by the counties, the townships in 

 this case again alone reveal the real facts. The coun- 

 ties might be taken in almost unbroken succession to 

 exhibit cases of severe declension in special townships. 

 Advocate in Cumborhuid, for instance, loses 40 per 

 cent 



In Prince Edward Island the diminution amounts to 

 10.8 per cent, and is general throughout the Island. In 

 parts it is 8*,*vere. In King's County, for instance, 

 Township No. 40 loses 36 per cent. ; in Queen's County, 

 Township No. 20 loses 37 per cent. 



