Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
CANADA.
IT'S People, AREA. RESOURCES
AND RATE OF GnowTH.
a Country Settled sooner Than
the United States. But Much
Slower IN Growth-Timcly
Facts and Figures.


to oc discussed as possibility, well
informed persons affirming that it is no
longer clear that the majority of Cana
dian voters may not favor the cbanpe il
IS timely for the people of this country
10 gather Information regarding the area.
the population aud the different elements
ol the PROVINCES composing the l. omin
ION. The enthusiastic Canadian is in the
hnDit OF saying that the territory is
Sreater than thar OF the United States,
put 10 no sense is this true. Some
standard WORKS put the area of Canada
ut :, 2O0, 700 square miles and others n,
J,oDo.o0o, 1t Is true. but the census re.
port makes the area of the United States
a. niue over ',5U!', % sluarc mites.
The one statement includes Alaska. Int
the other includes two or three times ms
much territory less inhabited now. and
so lar rs Is known less lit for human
habithtion. An enormous horton of the
Canadian area i covered with water.
and the extent of the land surface. thouuh
not even approximately known, must be
very much less than that of the United
States
Eight years ago there were in the
State OF Illinois alone more land occu
ped than in all the Dominion of Canada.
and probably there is now. In Dakota
alone, not set State, the public land
sales within the rast eight years have
exceeded ~, 600, 900 ACRES. and with the
sales OF corporations, probably exceed
the entire present occupied acreage in
the dominion of anaua.
vi the resources OF The Canadian
PROVINCES, IN timber, in fertile land. in
fisheries, IN ming and salt, it is not ncccs.
sary mere to speak; they are enormous,
and SO little has been done to define OF
develop them That they may greatly cx.
ceed any estimate. But resources without
men, resources which human energy and
enterprise have failed so far to devotion,
may not be found of much practical
va'uc for the future. Therefore it is to
Americans II fact which needs explana.
tlon, that the Canadian Provinces have
Developed SD slowly. For Cnnada is
older Than the rich and powerful States
comprising the Mon. Quebec was
founded by Champlan five years before
Inc irst hats were built on Manhattan
Island. Ontario was s,ttlcd four wears
before the OHIO Company started down
the river in flat boats to make its first
settlement III Marietta. But in and
west oil Ontario to the Pacific Coast the
than 900. 0D0; i'll and west Of Ohio the
inhabitants are more than 80. 400, 600.
The entire Province of Quebec has only
about the population of the city of New
ork alone. In the absence of cXplaun.
ton, men are liable to suppose that ,hi.
slowncss of growth must he due to in.
supcrablc obstacles of nature, or else to
institutions yet more rigorous.
lint ('npOIn is asSont;.lI,. =, t.,o
try, and the institutions and govern.
mcntS have done much to invite and
encourage Immigration, and To develop
diversified industry. Inspite of all these
efforts, there were co, 900 people from
this country living in Canada in 1851.
while there are now about |. 600. 0OG
Canadians living in the United States
a fifth OF the entire present population
oil Canada has sought better opportuni
ties III this country; about Il thousandtl
part OF the population Of the United
states has removed TO Canada and some
OF these have migrated only bccauss extra
dition treaties are defective. The con
trast is startling And yet Il paper read
by Mir. Blue, secretary Of the Ontario
Board OF Industry, about Il year AFRO,
showed that this province would actu.
ally have lost population during the
previous seven years but for immirra.
ton. With eos, 001 immigrants. and
the natural increase of 2.ii, 900, or 442. &.
700 IN all, the province only gained ll5.
600; 1.-The lamcntablc truth is that we ara
growing men for the United Stutcs.n MIR.
Blue remarks.
ontario Is nevertheless the most progress.
sive OF the older provinces, and much the
most populous and productive. More
than two-thirds of the occupied acreage
In the entire Dominion are within rs
limits. Quebec, the next province in
population and area cultivated, gained
IN the ten years lS1l-lSSl only Luz. 500
In population, about twelve per cent in
ten years. The provinces of New Bruins.
wick and Nova Scotia gained in the
same ten years only thirteen per cent. Tile
population oil the entire dominion in ISL
was 4,'i21, $40, and 1t is supposed TO have
since increased to 5000, 900 or more.
But TIE growth of the United States in
ten yeats ending with 1850 was over
,oOo. 200, or thirty per cent, and its
increase In population has been nearly
three times the present population OF the
Dominion.
The clements composing the popula-
ton of the Dominion were otlicinlly
stated for 1871 as follows: Of French
Canadians, LOSE, go; Of Irish, $50. 900:
of English. zoo, 600; of Scotch, $50, 600:
of Germans and Dutch. 30, 700. and of
Americans, 5000. While The Catholic
Church has the largest number Of adhcr-
ents they are less than half the popula-
tion. In 1881 those classcd rs Roman
Catholics numbered 1,fSS. ESQ, against
2,53G, 5G0 Of all other denominations.
Should political union take place. and
the several provinces of Canada be adj
mittcd as States, they would be entitled
to fourteen Senators. Assuming that
the ratio for Representative after the
next apportionmcnt in this country will
be about 100000, Ontario would prob.
ably be entitled TO ten or eleven, Quebec
to even, Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick to two each, Prince Edward Island,
Manitoba and British Columbia to one
each. The new territory would speedily
be so far settled by people from this
country, in the rapid development of re-
sources which would follow, that the
population of Ontario and all the west
ern provinces, at least, would be readily
assimintcd with that of the Waatorn