Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-04
Increase in 10 years
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Increase in 10 years 4S6,647 or
lO4.5S per cent.
The first census of Great Britain was taken
in 1901, at which date the population amount
ed to lO,567,8 $685. and thus it has doubled itself
in half a century, an increase nearly equalling
that in all preceding ages. 1t is supposed that
in the eleven centuries which elapsed between
the landing of Julius Caesar and William the
Conquerer, the population hardly doubled it.
self, thus, that which in former times it required
eleven centuries to accomplish in England, has
been done in Upper Canada in 10 years. The
census returns of all countries prove how much
faster population increases in modern than
ancient times. In the last ten years, $685.
Isl have been added to the population of Great
Britain, which exceeds the known increase of
the last 80 years of the last century.
Whilst the population of almost all other
countries is increasing, that of Ireland, is from
various causes, 1888 less than it was in 1861
the greatest decrease has been in the county of
Cork, where, in 10 years, the population has
been reduced from 773,39S to 55l, l52.
II may be argued that it is not fair to take
the whole of the United States for comparison
with Upper Canada, much of that country be-
ing comparatively old and long settled. 1t will
be seen from the United States census, that
the three States of Ohio, Michigan and Illinois,
contained, in 1880, 1,126,85l In 1850 they
contained 2,505,000 q little over 800 per cent
in 20 years.
: Canada West contained, in 1890, 2I0,437; in
l849, it contained $4,000, which is over 375
per cent for the same period of twenty years
so that the increase in these three choice States
was 50 per cent. less than that Of Canada West
during the same time. The western States at
tract an enormous population, and at this time
settlers are crowding into Iowa, and peopling
the banks Of the Missouri.
The statistics Of Canada prove the same feel
ing to exist here as in the United States The
Gore and Wellington districts have increased
1000 per cent. in thirty-three years up to 1850.
The Western District has increased over 700
per cent; the London district, $50 per cent,
the county of Norfolk, $50 per cent; the county
of Niagara about $50 per cent. while, in eight
years, the county of Oxford has doubled its
population.
And in the far west Of Canada, the counties
Of Huron, Perth, and Bruce, have increased
from $500 in ls4l, to 1850 in 1851, being
upwards of 81 per cent. in ten years, in in.
crease almost beyond comprehension. 1t APP
pears from Smiths work on Canada, that the
Huron district has made more rapid progress
since its first settlement in 1927, than the States
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that time, or than Lower Canada did in one
hundred and four years; the latter is doubtless
owing to the almost entire absorption by west
ern Canada of the vast immigration from Eu-
rope.
This immense increase is not, however, con.
fined to the rural districts, for the cities and
towns will equally vie with those of the United
States, and few extracts from the Rev. Mr..
Lilies excellent lectures on the growth and
prospects OF Canada afford an interesting proof
of this fact.
The population Of Boston was, in 1870, 1908
1910, 33,250
1920, 1929
1880, 6l,39l
1910, $4,000
1850, $4,000
,,; dividing the above into two periods of