AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH-WEST CANADA. 213 
General Calendar of the Seasons—continued. 
_— Manitoba Saskatchewan | Alberta 
1907 Unfavourable year. | Unfavourable | Unfavourable year. 
Deficient harvest year. Defi- | Deficient harvest 
cient harvest. | 
Reported yield 
13°52 bushels | 
; per acre 
Government Loan of Seed. 
1908 | Favourable spring | Favourable | Favourable spring 
| spring | 
| Hot and dry in July in three provinces 
| Good yield and heavy crop 
1909 | Low temperature and cold rains eariy in June, followed by dry 
| weather. Seeding in all provinces was late. In the end of 
June some heavy local rains. Conditions of crops irregular 
and difficult to estimate in the aggregate. Hot and dry 
weather in July and August led to early harvesting. Result 
| of crop cannot as yet be stated with confidence 
Population.—The last Dominion Decennial Census having been 
taken in 1901, it was thought that an intermediate census ought to 
be taken of the three prairie provinces in 1906, partly because of the 
considerable immigration and partly because of the readjustment of the 
political status of the population. 
The following table shows the general result of this census, which 
was taken as at June 24, 1906 :— 
— 1901 | 1906 Increase | 
roar © ha. St a 
Manitoba. 2 5 : : zt 255,211 365,688 44:28 
Saskatchewan . A 5 : 2 91,279 166,484 182°39 
ME vo se. tcpventedl oy O22. | | 112890 15391 | 
= aes = = 2 A ere 
1200! Qe neha seeihg abate: 419,512 | 808,863 92:31 | 
The following table shows the origin of this population in a very 
general way :— 
Per cent, Per cent. 
1901 1906 
Born within the British Empire . 3 : 78:40 70°21 
Born within the United States . é 3 4:95 11:22 
Total British and American born . c 5 83:35 81:43 
Born in other countries . ‘ 5 f ‘ 16°65 18°57 
100:00 100:00 
The available statistics show that although the immigration from the 
United States had been considerable, there were, in 1906, in the three 
provinces but 90,738 persons who had been born in the United States. 
The population of British origin was thus still largely preponderant. 
