40 KUKAL LIFE IN CANADA 



Middlesex is purely rural, consisting of the four fine 

 townships of London, Dorchester, Missouri, and West- 

 minster. In each the male population predominates, 

 the aggregate predominance being 518. The west rid- 

 ing embraces five townships; in every one more men 

 than women are found, the plurality throughout the five 

 being 469. In its town and villages, Strathroy, Glen- 

 coe, Newbury and Wardsville, men are everywhere in 

 a minority, its total being 355. There is one city within 

 the bounds of the county, London, with an excess of 

 females over males of 2,498. In the townships of Mid- 

 dlesex there are 107 men to 100 women. In the city, 

 towns and villages of Middlesex there are 112 women 

 to 100 men. There is only one county in Ontario, this 

 one of Grenville, in which females exceed males in the 

 purely rural population. 



" The excess of females over males in the urban popu- 

 lation of Ontario is 10,865. The excess of males over 

 / females in the rural population of Ontario is 85,940. 

 In the cities, towns and villages, taken by themselves, 

 there are 102 women to 100 men. In town and country 

 taken together there are 106 men to 100 women. In 

 the country alone there are 116 men to 100 women. 



This anomaly holds true, not of Ontario only, but of 

 all rural Canada. In New Brunswick males outnumber 

 females in every census district except the city of St. 

 •John. There women outrank men by 2,013. In the 

 rest of the Province men outrank women by 7,845. In 

 Nova Scotia in every district outside of Halifax save 

 two there is an excess of females. The overplus for the 

 province is 9,700. 



Have all of our women the vagrant heart ? We know 



