The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-22
THE CENSUS
OF CANADA
ITS GROWTH IN TEN YEARS
PAST.

A census of the Dominion of Canada
will be made during 1911. 1t will
show that during the past decade a
remarkable development has taken
place, and, when compared with the
population, a greater percentage ST in
crease in industries of all kinds than
has yer been shown by any country.
Commerce, mining, agriculture and
railways have made a steady march
onward The population will be CON
siderably over 100000. Thousands
of miles Of railway lines have been
construction since the last ms was
taken ten years ago. This construc-
ton was made necessary by the open
ing up of the new agricultural dis
tricts in Western Canada, in which
there have been pouring year after
year an increasing number of settlers,
until the present year will witness
settlement of over 100000, or a trife
less than one-third Of the immigration
to the United States during the same
period with it's 90, % 900 of popula-
ton. Even with these hundreds of
thousands of newcomers, the great
majority of whom go upon the land,
there is still available room for hun
dreds of thousands additional. The
census figures will therefore show a
great-a vast-increase in the num-
Der of farms under occupation, as we'll
as in the output of the farms. When
the figures of the splendid immigra-
ton are added to the natural increase,
total will surprise even the most
optimistic. To the excellent growth
that the western portion Of Canada
will show may largely be attributed
the commercial and Industrial growth
OF the eastern portion of Canada. All
Canada is being upbuilded, and in this
transformation there is taking part
the people from many countries, but
only from those countries that pro-
duce the strong and vigorous. AS
evidence of the growth of he
portion of Canada, in agricul-
tural industry, it is instructive to
steads of 100 acres each have been
transferred to actual settlers in the
past w years. This means $4,000
square miles OF territory, and then,
is added the 10000 160-acre pre-
emption blocks, there is an additional
10000 square miles, or a total of 49,
o00 square mlleS-a territory as large
as the State of Indiana, and settled
two years. Reduced to the
producing capacity imperative on the
cultivation restriction of so acres Of
on each 160-acre home
stead within three years, there will
be within a year and a half from now
upwards of 100000 additional acres
from this n source added to the en-
producing area of the Provinces
Of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and AL
berta.
In 1901, at the time Of the last
of Canada. successful agricul-
,ure in the Provinces of M%onitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta was an
to many. There were
skeptics who could not believe that
t was possible to grow thirty, forty
even fifty bushels of wheat to the
lcre, or that as high as one hundred
thirty bushels of oats to the acre
could be grown. The skeptics are not
% be found today. The evidence of
hundreds Of thousands OF farmers
s too overwhelming. Not only have
he lands of western Canada proven
heir worth in the matter Of raising
Ill the smaller field grains, but for
Mixed farming, and for cattle raising
here is no better country anywhere.
The climate is perfectly adapted to all
.hese pursuits as well as admirable
or health. The Dominion government
literature, descriptive of the country.
s what all that are interested should
cad. Send for a copy to the nearest
1ana@ian government representative
An Ace Up His Sleeve.
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