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STATISTICS
OF THE
POPULATION
OP THE
BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA
FOR THE TEAR 188S.
IKOM THE DAILY ADVERTISER.
KONTREALi
1834.
STATISTICS, &c.
i^OPULATION OF LOWER CANADA.
.1*116 Roveral consuMS or the population of the
Iwu Carta:! ■» hitherto made pu'ilic htvo been so
iiiiiiiiiiiHtly dureclivo, that, for all pricticul pur.
poacs. it has beeu customary to pl.ico n^lianco
rather upon tho e8timuti>s of well iiiformoiJ indi.
vidiuls, than upon I'ocniiiento s'riclly official.
When nuniorous errors, and ^ouie of them i<f
no smiill in.ijruituilo. cm be pointed out, and
certiiii allowances iniide fur thorn, tl>e result of
the process, if not perfectly correct, will ap.
proach the truth very nenrly ; and if it be con.
firmed by colhttral evidurco, the conclusion
niiiy be s.iid to aiiio int almost to certainly.
I'riiler theno impressioiiB, it is int'nded to lay
before tin- reader hucIi evidence ns id within our
reach, with n view to establish the tut'il pupula.
tiiin of tho C^anadas at the close of thepist year.
As a hUjiplomeniary enquiry, we shall aUo col.
Iei:t as many tacts as po8>ililo rcl itivo to the po-
pulation cif the Lower Provinces, and so present
an approxiiiiate estimate of the total popuUtion
of the Uriiah North American Provinces.
\Vu lire not aware of any enumeration of tho
popiil itioii of Lower Canada between the years
TTrtl .ind I8:i*>. Duriiii; the former year a cen-
sus nf the popiilition was taken by order of Go.
hur.il Hai,dim,«nd. It give a ti>tal of 113,(1110,
III |S'2.> :i rnifulir census was taken, under the
authority of tho Provincial Le;;isl iture, the re.
suit of which <«'a8. tiiat the Province of Lower
Caii..(ia numbered 4*23,373 souls.
The smallness of this number cr<-itcd great
surpiiso iiiiioiig those who are in the liriit of
giving attention to such subjoci-''; innl as tlicir
opinions and estimitcs had previously Ihhmi Niib-
niitted to the public, — ilio [Mililie, ni irmiis.r, ji.ir-
licipited in their fu^'liiig ora>triiiis!i'Ufiit.
"irito defects of llin ceiisuM of IH2") were glar-
ing. In the first plane, m.iny Townships — some
of them tolcraldy populous — wore loll cniiri'ly
out of the account, no Returns being received.
In the RL'cond pi ice, tho Protestant population
of tho Sciirneuries — in some cases ronsidfrable
— was very incorrectly given, and in some in.
stances omitted. Lastly, the people of the coun.
try concealed theii^ nambQrs, frorA tfift pn^H
lonco of a snrt of tradition among them, that
taxation had usually followed former cndnMra.
tions, and, of course, might dn so again.
from thr-se several sources of error it was g04
ncrilly understood at the time, that tho total ex.
hibitod by the census was from 80,000 id
lUtKODO deficient, — an impression which other
evidence, collected shortly before, and about thtf'
time, had a strong tendency to confirm.
The census taken during the summer of 1831,
and made public in tho early part of 1833, creat.
ed scarcely less surprise. Mr. BouciiETTe's esti.
mate fixes the defiriency of the last census at
80,0110, and other persons equally well informed
consider that the total shouFd not have been un«
dor 6(10,000.
The Committee of the Assembly to whom thrf
last census was referred for the purpose of decid,
ing certain claims concerning an extension of
Parliamentar; representation, speak of both cen.
suscs in the following terms : —
Your committee have no doubt but that the
consiis of tlie present year, (1831) as welt as that
nf 1 82.5, is much under the true amount of the
populaiion. » » » Inaccuracies aro inani.
test in taking down tho number of inmates in
each house,* the aggregate of which gives the
total uf the population.
The Returns particularized by the Committee
as bearing upcui their face strong evidence of
inaccuracy are those for the City and County of
Qiiotiou, for Drummonil, Sherbrooke, Richelieu,-
Sagucnny, Cham'jly, and others.
If, then, the censuses he not trustworthy, to
what soiirnos of infirmation can we resort for
data whereon to ground our calculations ? The
question is of importance We shall according,
ly bestow upon it some care.
Two years previous to the first of the above,
named censuses, an enquiry was instituted by the
House of Assembly for the purpose of aseertain.
iiig, ns nearly as possible, the population of
Lower Canada. Letters were addressed to the
Cures of the country parishes, to the Seigneurs
throughout the country, and to tho leading men
* A Brent numlier of snob inaocurnrics cutio wiiliin ili'> knuwlpJ^o of ilin writer of this oriicle. His house,
hold of six pftr.so'is was not included, no call b:>inu: nude upon him; iini! several other similir onilssiuns, at
Quebec, onciiried. Oucnsiunally uii ifiuurant maiil-servnnt, ur a niiauhievouj youii|( clerk, who thought
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it " good fun" to deceive, viaa the unly pereuti quealiuncd.
•f tha Townthipai demanding inrormation on
the Bubject, and their answora furm the data on
which Bubaequont calculations have been made.
Although we have met with one or two private
calculationa grounded thereon, together with
Bome articles in newapapors, we prefer taking
thoae which have been aanctioned, or, at all
events, countenanced by a Parliamentary Com-
mittee ; we mean those of Mr. NEii,ao.s and
Lieutenant.Cnlonel Rouchettb.
The evidence of Mr. Neilson ia to be found in
the Appendix to the Journala of the Aasenibly
for 1823-4 (R.) He is asked :—
At what amount do you estimate the popu-
lation uf Lower Canada, and what are the data
whereon you proceed in making your calcula.
tiona 7
Answer. — I have no certain data upon which I
can form an estimnto uf the present population of
Lower Canada. The last census taken, uf which I
have any knowledge, was in 1784, by Cummissioners
appointed by General IIaldimano, in virtue of Royal
instructions.
Mr. Neilson he^e delivers in an abstract giv.
ing a total of 113,000, and continues his evi-
dence.
This enumeration, like anjr other enumsrntion,
owing to omissions ngninst which very strict precau-
tions have not been taken, was probably less than the
real population. The popul-*- u of l^iwer Cana-
da in 1764, has been stated at about 60,000 souls ; an
increase in the same ratio would give at present
about 480,000 souls.
Mr. Neilson next proceeds on other data.
The militia "Returns for Lower Canada, he con-
tinues, OS stated by the Adjutant-General last year
were 70,443.
It is acknowledged to be very incorrect, and cer-
tainly below the truu number. In the (States oi
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, where, taking
the whole population together, the rotio of increase
probably differs very little from that of I/)wer Cana-
da ; and where it is believed tho militia age is neoriy
the same, a militia of 83,516 gives a population of
773,280. ! believe, however, that their militia nge is
!rom 18 to 45, ours is from 18 to 60, and perhaps the
ratio of increase is something greater in New York,
although I think we fully surpass in that respect Ver-
mont and New Hampshire. There are probably
more omissions in our miUtia Returns than in theirs ;
I should conceive that the popiilntion uf Lower Cana-
da at the present time is 600,000 souls, in which case
the population would have doubled every twenty
years from the conquest.
Mr. BouciiETTE in answer to a question of ai-
milar import, delivered in a statement grounded
principally upon the letters of the Curds and
other sources of information. The statement is
too long for our space ; the result, which gives a
total of 428,000, is suflScient for our purpose.
The discrepancy between this and Mr. Neil-
son's estimate, induces the Committee to ask
that gentlemen : —
From what c(i^;>es docs your estimate differ so
much from that of the Surveyor-General of Lower
Canada, and have you any and what observations to
make upon the estimate now shown to you ?
Answer. — ^The Surveyor-General's calculation is
chiefly founded on the statements given by the Cur-
■tea, in which any person who has a knowledge of
the country admits there are a great many omisaiona
Tha Towtiahip and Proteatant population in general,
I apprehend haa been etitimated by (he Surveyor'
General without any very certain data. Hia division
of ihn population into Count'es und Dislricta, I conai*
dertugivoa aiifllciently correct idea of the relative
population of the difTxrent divisions, and it ia possible
thiit generally his estimation may be nearer the truth
than mine.
Of the above three figures, wo are inclined to
give the preference to Mr. Neilson's first eati-
mate of 480,000. It doea not require a rate of
increase extraordinary for a new country, nor
does it differ materially from the census of 1825,
after making allowance for the orrorn we havo
specified. The second estimate of 600,^00, on
the other hand, does not appear to ua to be war.
ranted by the previona data. Supposing the po.
pulatinn of I7d4 tj have amounted to even'
120,000— that ia 7000 more than the cenaua—
it would require the period of doubling to have
been sixteen years only to produce 600,000 in
1823. Now, the circumstances of the country
do not warrant such an assumption. Immigra-
tion during the period was trifling, and from
procreation alone a similar rate of increase has
not been exhibited by countries enjoying a mor*
fertile soil, a milder climate, and a more akilfiil
system of husbandry. Added to which, the ex.
tensive peculations and ultimate defalcation of
the Intendant Bioot, the efTocts of which were
felt even after the conquest, and the several
wars in which Canada has since been engaged,
must have operated as rather a check upon tho
increase of population.
Mr. Bovciiette's estimate of 428t000 appears
to us too low, from the circumstance of its dif.
foring so little with the census of 1825, the er.
roneousness of which we have already shown.
Still, from Mr. Boijchette's knowledge of the
suhjec;., combined with the caro he has on save,
ral o'casions taken with this branch of Colonial
statistics, we cannot but permit bis opinion to
have weight. We shall, therefore, set down the
population of 1623 aa the mean between hia es-
timate and that of Mr. Neilson's — namely,
454,000.
The next stage of our enquiry must necer>iari.
ly be the natural rate of increase exhibited by
the Province independent of immigration ; •
question, upon the solution of which we can
fortunately bring to boar a considerable body of
evidence.
In tho first place, we would remark, that
there can be no great diflwrence in the relative
correctness of the two last censuses. Both were
known to ho below the truth, but we have never
heard it hinted that one was more so than the
other. Assuming, therefore, that their defects
are nearly equal, and deducting from the last
census the ainoant of immigration during the
period, the difference of the two censuses will ex.
hibit— not the actual increase of the popuUtion,
but its percentage rate.
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Hie toMi eihibitad by tht ceniui of 1831 (Journals,
Appendix AA.) ii
Population of Mii
Sll.Ultf
433,690
88,339
21,594
or this number the censui returni, at the
incroiite by means of immigration
Natural increase in lix years ■ • • 66,615
Annual average 11,103
Or at on accuniuliting rote of 2i per cent, per annum.
This rate of increase is confirmed by a State,
ment of Births, Morriages, and Deaths for the
five years ending 1832, from the Appendix to
the Journals of the House of Assembly, — a do.
rument which we insert at length. •
SdUement shewing the number of Births, Marriagrs
and Djathi in the teoeral Dhutricts qf Lower Canada,
from ISli to 1832, taken from the Journal* nf the
House of AssemMy.
Year
lSi3.
Utiubec ■
Montreal •
Three llivers
Gasp^
St. Francis
1829.
1830.
1831
Districts.
Total
Quebec •
Munirenl •
Three Rivers
(lasp^
St Francis
Totol
Quebec •
.VIontreiil -
Three Rivers
St. Francis
'Jotal
Quebec ■
.Wantrenl •
Three Rivers
St. Fronnia
Total
1932.
Quebec ■
.Montreal '
Three Rivers
St. Francis
Total -
ToialSyenrs
Aver 5yeart
Births
7219
11927
2426
21572
721
12208
2409
201
22029
7600
13013
2492
206
13
23354
8133
14217
2739
330
37
25155
8591
18195
2751
189
52
29781
122191
21438
Marriaget
Deaths
Increase.
1478
3359
3960
1903
5671
6265
374
965
1461
U
3760
9995
11577
1150
3300
3911
2012
5361
6947
419
803
1606
43
45
156
3624
9509
12520
1432
4943
2757
2553
5767
7286
510
1292
1200
42
47
159
42
4
9
4579
11953
11401
1629
5123
3110
2592
6514
7703
519
1195
1543
53
48
282
63
25
12805
12
4361
12650
1674
6946
1645
2506
13718
4177
548
1319
1435
51
23
156
67
23
24
4846
22034
7747
21670
66296
55995
4334
13259
11179
Excluding the Statement of 1833, as a year iff
Pestilence *
l'utalof4ypar8,
ending 1831
92410
16834
44262
48148
Averiife of lour
years
23102
4206
11065
12037
It is not pretended that the above table is per-
fectly correct. We do not here assume its oor.
rectness. All the use wo wish to make of it, is
to establish a percentage rate of increase, and
this, wo contend, it does, inasmuch as whatever
errors it contains are like those in the censuses
—errors of omission which do not, cannot ma.
terially differ from the errors of the censuses ;
hence, we consider the rate of increase eita-
blished at 2^ per cent, per annum.
Another confirmation of this rate of increase
is afforded us by comporing Mr. Boijciibtte's
two estimates of 1823 and 1827. His first esti.
mote of 428,000, supposed *o »crumulate at the
above rate, would in 1S27 reat 472,340, while
his calculation of the population of the several
Counties at the close of that year gives ua a total
of 471,876.
Commencing, then, for the reasons already
mentioned, with the mean between Mr. Neil,
son's and Colonel Bouchette's estimates, wa
ha>9 454,000 as the population of 1823, a figure
which, on the most careful examination of every
document and opinion within our reach, we are
bound to consider as rather an undcr-estimate.
From the above data wo have 581,037 as the
amount to which the population of Lower Ca.
nada would have attained at the end of 1833
without the aid of immigration.
Of late years, however, the population of
Lower Canada has been considerably augmented
by the above means, — to what extent we will
presently endeavour to ascertain.
For the purpose of determining to what ex.
tent the population has been increased by means
of immigration since 1823 we must depend on
the Reports of Mr. Buchanan, the Official
Agent for Immigrants at Quebec, compared
with the Statements coUectpd with, und check,
ed by the Census Returns of 1831.
In a little pamphlet published in 1831 from
the Official Gazette, the statements contained in
* A comparison between the mortality of 1832 and that of the average of the preceding four years will
enable us to judge of the effects of the cholera. For 92,410 births in the four years ending 1831 there were
48,148 deaths. In 13'Ji the births were unusually numerous, the result of nn mcreased number of marriages
in the two previous years. The rouses of this mcreuse of niarriiige may be traced to a state of prosperity,
arising from two good harvests. Had the some proportion between the births and deoths obtained in 1832 as
on ths average of the four previous years, there should have been 14,434 deaths only, instead of which there
wei;e 22,034 deaths, giving 7,600 as the mortality from cholera all over Lower Canado.
If we take populdtion as a basis of calculation, instead of the number of births, the deaths in 1832 should
have been 12,325, instead of 22,034, which would give 9,700 as the mortality from cholera, instead of 7,600;
butas an excess of births would necessarily cause an increase of mortality, it is probable that the number
which died from cholera is somewhere between the two figures, or about 9,000, which agrees very aearly
with other aeoounts.
which are luiown to hava b««n furnUliad from tlia
ofllioo abovo.nnnMd, w« And tlia fuUitwiii); |i.imi.
oge :—
Aroonlin;; to tho lioiit cnlRiilittinn thit rnxn
be luada, it ia nbsorviililu tii.it in llui ytir \&iii
about one.lwelflh part of the oiiiiKruritH lundiiii;
at Quttl)fO roiii.<iiii)il in Lower Cun.tda.
Ill 182!) inoro tliMn ortf-fifih ruiiiuiiiod.
Ill IH3I) conNiiler<ibly iiioro thiin nnf.lh'rd
part lisivu lukiMi up tliuir liuliilatioii in (iilti Pro-
viiioe, and are now (1831) in active prugres* ui*
Mttlement.
Pravioui to the year 1698 the number ramnin-
ing in the Lower Provinoe waatno •mull to ren.
der it neceiaar/ to make anjr alloMrunce for them
during^ the four yean endinr I '?7.
For the number which roii. . ind in 1831 wo
ore indebted to a Purlinmcniary Piiper, Si'imion
1832, No. 734, 15th AugUHt ; for I83j, wo tiike
Mr. DuciiANA.N'e evidence ; and for the l.-mt yimr,
the Returns of the Collector of the Cuglouia iit
Quebec. On these data tho following iitatcment
is made : —
Year.
1389..
I82<J. .
1830..
1831. .
18)2. .
1833. .
Immigration.
Total. Remained.
11700
15945
8Sii75
5l»5t
51428
20489
975
3189
9£j5
175.0
10200
40'J7
The census of 1831 says that 2l,!>U.i unnii.
grants hud remained in Lower Cunudu sinoo
1825. Now, the census was made in the middle
of summer, when not half the inimi^r.i ion uf
1831 hod taken place. Allowing hall', how.
ever, the above table will give 2-.?,'2(i9, which
is quite near enough to confirm oor views.
Were we merely to add the total iiiiiiiirrii.
lion for tho period, it would not exhibit the
full effects of immigration on the precont popu.
lation of the Province, as they imiroMs* <ih f.ixt,
if not faster, than the older inhabilunts ; we,
therefore, odd tliein from year to year, and sub-
mit them to the increase of SJ per cent., ua ex-
hibited in the following tHbl<- : —
Year.
1823. .
1824..
18 S.,
1826..
1827..
1828. .
1929..
183...
18']..
1832. ,
1833. .
Popula ion
I III: ccm-
metif ment
f th yeu r.
454000
4G535(I
470984
486908
499082
51>547
•'.2 .•)49
j5 117
.59 94
6071i3
Satitral iv
hiinugra-
reuse dur-
inn ilnr-
ing the
iiig Ihi-
year.
year.
11350
11634
11924
12174
12490
975
12813
3189
13213
jji.)
13777
1"5
14559
10 <t
15179
4 97
Population
III I he itid
of' the yiar.
45100
4ri53.'.0
476V84
4d6908
49:iU82
.'1 12-147
5-28549
.V)I117
5 )i394
6 17 1 -.3
626429
Defective us the last census is known !•• Ii.ivo
been in the number of the popul.ition, i' is still
more so in the proportion which eucii sex bears
i9 lrh9 whQlCt %d4 also which different ^gca bear
to o^bara. The cansua prolasaaa to give » elsa.
sifloition oPdiiriironl agon, and of ijuj two scxns {
but on iiililinir ilm yi'veral nu>iil.i<rH up, wb find
the iiiiiniiiit u.xcrds llio Intnl of thn poi'olilinn^
Tlu) whole number in 511.017. whilst the se.
veral age* amount to 5tl,!2''!l. The e rebss
nature of tin- cljihinciiion Mill be ujipsmnt tho
moMii III We htiieii; lii'sl we hove perNona uu<
der five yurs ol uge, and iiersuiis between ftvo
ami foiirioRii. uik) then we have feinnlns under
fourteen, so thnt it i> probable n portion of
one class iH c'liit lined witliln another. Uodar
tlione circumHlanoes, we shall take only tho^ia
which are distinctly enumeruli'd — niiiiirly, hoth
setcs from fourtesn and above, placing nil the
under fourteen into a class by tliemselves. Tli.o
enuiiieralion of the eonsus we take for the pur-
pove of fixing a proportion, profcrving, of
course, our own total.
Persons of both srxes un-
der 14 years oliigu
MiiJes 14 to 20 -
21 to 30 .
31 to 60 •
60 and above
Females 1 4 to 45 -
Over 45 •
Tom"
Proportion of ihc .Se\c.« a« imiiraled by the Ccnt'Us,
10,087 males to 10,000 lemales.
The census nest gives the number of Di'nf
and Dumb, Blind, iinil Insnnu persons in tho
Province. Observing the same proportion for
our iucreasad total, we have :—
Number of Derif find Dumb persons - - - - 499
Nimilicr offtlind p<>r«ons 403
.Number of Ins'ine persons 1110
giving the fiilhiwii'g propwrtinns : —
1 IViif and Dumb person in every 1254
1 Blind person In J'very 1.531
1 Insane person iii every 56i
The ntiinbcr of persons suUintin.' on Alms is
stated by the ceiiMls to be 1°.^8^. which gives at
the eloso of l^33 — 1.5(17, being 1 in every 4Ut).
The next clritisifii at ion ol the people of Lower
Canada is aceordingto tho religion they profess,
but the euuineration is defective, inaHiiiiich iih
the whole aildud together are short of the totit'
•■xhihited by the census. Thoho professing tho
Ejiificopul f.iith, too, arn inad<' nearly to eqinlin
number those of all other denoinin.ilions, ej^copt
Roman Catholics, and thi.s we cone :ive to be an
error.
Tlic number of Romon Cailiolics is stated to
be 403,472
Giving fur oil u'.hcr denuminations ; • - 108,445
Ve.
Both
I'olh
Males.
m-ile 1
Sejcti.
VflfS
27y75(
2:'.)-.M)
4272(1
42720
413-4(1
4V.m
73S50
73851
1614<
16140
138^3n
3iss:»i»
337(H)
33761
174090
1723
27975(
6i6l30
Total of the Census 511,917
\Vhich would give as the present proportion ;
Roman embolics 493,62J
Other denominations 132,810
Total population of 1833
£26,439
for
400
403
1110
1-254
564
18 in
bs tit
hiwer
Itllt'il
tho
ilin
an
The oflleni dnoumcnte nflbrd ut n» Rieaiii sf
Mcartiriii<i( llio iiiiiiiher nf |irr*nnB «|mal(inK
llin EhkIUIi I.Kigii 11(11, coiiipired >\i*li lliii«i- or
Fruiictt <l«tmuiit, At l>y fur lliu lar;;Mr |ior(ii>n
of till) iinini|;r.iti"n, of tlie IikI t.voiity yoiim hu*
iMieii frtxH Iroliitil it nllnwa, tint, ol'tliora pro.
fui>fiii(( the lliiiiiiin Ciitliolii: fuitli, Moine H|K)ak
llin KiigliNli ioM|{<ie. In a Htalomnnt of llin
l>jrllM, iiiurriajrcii, iiiiil Jvilks roi;i»(rrud ut llie
r>ri!ili I'liiiruli of Moiiiri'ul (liiriii|j( It):i3, out of
1421) birllm, 4M* wnr« uf otii r lliiin Can uliin
oriiiiii, aniJ 3^7 in rriigtia, 1 13 weru uf tlio lit-
i9r cl<i<<H, Sii|t|ii>ai'i|rlliiH lu bo rorraot, it wwuld
Civfl (Mil* t iril iil'ilii'C .lliolic |iu|iul itimi ul tlie city
an H|m.ikiii)f tlin KiiKliali |:iiij;>iii)(e, and |irnbiibly
iibovo l.'t.d.tOiir Ki.O'llloniiu wliolu. At Qiobeo
till) ri'C'iiit rfi-ciioii oftlic Cliuridi of ^it. Polar ia
ovi (•■nun til it ilio niiin'ivr iH l>y no inu.inx iiic-u.
niili-r iblii, mid in iini wlii)lii Prnvi'ic- the iiuinlwr
niiint Mudi l« UiiikVcon 4'I,0I)II und 5). (III. I ; itdtl.
in;; abiiiit 4''>>"'l" to t '» nu nb T of |i ,'rMoiiH nut
Ro mil Cilli'dicH, w*i liiivij iibout Ttvn.gKVKNi'iia
of ilio n'hi4o |iii|iiiliili"n i<|ii> ikiiij; itiu fiao^liHll
|.in);iii|rn, or about ltiil,(|IIU. Tliin niinibiT,
lio><uvar, iMU>t bu ruvjeiviul tvitli conxidcriible
pu.<i|iicion of iiccuriir.y. Wu imva civun tho \w.
l*erl'oet d'lla ; our ri-iiderH will jndgro for tlioin.
HfilvcH. Wi! Miiiy rum irk, however, tli it 80>iil'.
Iliiiii; riiUHllHiiid liid to llin l,1;i,8tll (lerixiMs '• not
Uoinin C thol.inti,*' to iiiiiki) U|i tliii vAufi* of per.
80II8 H|ii>itki:n;{ tlin GnjrliHh language. If »-e hd-
KUni') tliitt tliri-c.fourlJiB of llio |Hi|iiiil ition nro of
t'l-Kiich di-MRi'iit, •mil oiin.fourtli of other origin,
wu shiill rnqiin* only tho uddilinn of 2t,(llll) |ii'r.
Bonn |lrl■fl!8^ing iliu Catholic fiith, nnd H|ifaking
lliii KiigliHJi langiiagrf to make Up til it pro|iur>
lion.
Wu tliull oonniado tiiiaurtiRle with nn nbtitract
of RO touch of till) Ckrhus Ruturniiuf 1831 iih re.
I ilciH lu ihn cl o<8iili:ation nf ine population .ih ti>
ngo, Kux, roliginn, occuuntion, &<:. T<iO Ituturii
ciH'iruc«8 u HOrittB of qii«!Klion8, with lliu nn«vvcr8,
r I itiiig tu cdU''ution, indnhlry, &c., which will
bo givoo \vb«Mi lb'>80 sul'jiicta arc trculud of.
CUtsfift aiinn (\f P«-
lIuuHcH iiiliiiiiuod
lliiiifL'* unuii ibil;>il
liuiiiiuM biiddinu
l'rii|iri('tu II til Ttrn
I'rupriy • •
Niii frojirieturg iA
UbiiI rroporiy
To III |:erMiii^', l.SiS
'I'oiiil iiefHoiiH, tH!)l
Purfuii* tuinpiirtiiily
iil)!«'nt Iroin ilii
Pioviii»;p ■ •
Pur«iiiM 5 yeani anil
uiidur - ■ -
Porming i.hove 5 niid
under 14 • .
Mai.em —
14 lo IS, nrirrifd
fiiiglu
18 lu 31, ninriind
Mnuli'
SI tu 30, in <?iiud
kiii^ilu
30 toCU, ni.rrii'd
«in.'-!l(!
00 and iipwiirdH,
married • •
siiiRlt ...
Fkmai.eb—
Uiidi'r 14 years o
ogn - - -
14 lu 45, in rrimi
bliiulf
45 and upward.-,
mirrit'd - -
siiijjio ...
Dc-uriiiid Diiuibper
sons ...
Hind pt-rsunM
limiiii' pt'ifoiis .
llRI.KilON —
Oil liulii-H - -
KiiL-tcup ;li ins -
Cliiirch uf Srol
Ian - - •
Prpfiliylpriana .
Mi'ihuJIais • .
BapiiitiB - • .
J( wg ....
OihiT Sects ■
Prrsons siihsislin^'
by A)£riuulture
fiy Cuinin^rce ond
Trndo - - .
Nu. of Furni Pcrv
imta ....
Pt'rgiins sulisiating
bv Alms
J"
«14
^5.
31747
1C3J1
i'JdOSO
778
4)711
51537
210
li3<J7
473
710.1
IIOI!)
I>7i5
3()ri'.>i
3'j.iy
1347
5f.302
31337
ir.oi
39 J;
a.')!
40i
iJ9il)3
101 '.12
7011 1
0044
2 80
85
941
1240
517.)
6U
3207U
2033 •(
128
fiiii:)
248
3'J.J
4i-.7i
4UtN
1GTG.1
lOilC
3108
;54
15G7<.1
ISO I
ibai8
7i07
llu'
II!
Ifd
3Ji
•9300
•;8S'
4;i7
5J1
91
61
12467
76!
1669
63'.>
122
I0M5
12300
2'.)
25:jfi
85
103
1G^3
1817
67.14
513
1563
120
:0709
7121
5371
-.65 J
3Gi
33
34
li'8
4:78C
494
37t.
190
10
4333
t'662
43S
428
70
SI
1734
1939
34
76
10]
708
305
706
815
2C0
183
179
079
1171
433
575
45
7
668 f
20H6
1406
38
184
466
1(
^30
10
981
73729
02704
4(11
21697
907
I (574
1727*
bMili
6413
11243
2000
836.')9
6404 1
•18413
2^3?5
5278
409
334
924
4034: «
34620
15069
7811
7(1 19
2461
117
5577
5033-1
2503
7608
1283
* If thp births in luwn bear tlie same pioi;i>riian to the population na obioins ihp whole Province, 4M
birih.4 will tfivu 10,277 as tlin (viitholiu popiil iiinn of .Montreal Nueakii^ ihe CngliHh language. Quebec yt'il)
probably rxbihit iitiuiit ihu Htime iiuiiiber, eu lliut in Ubtuming 45,0C0ac the number thruughuut the Pruvinc'
we caunut ba lar wrung.
13,472
1.917
lion !
l3,62i
|2,810
use
POPULATION OF UPPER CANADA.
In Upper Canada, a censua of thn populnlinu
ig tukea annually. By an Act of the Legiala.
ture of that Province, 4 Gc4). IV. c. 7, paascd
I9lh Junuwry, 1831, il is provided that " It shall
be tho duty of the Agsesgors chosen or oppoinied
for any tpiVQihip, par sti> place or places in tbifi
Province, to take a true and correct list of
all tho inhabitants of the parish, township, re.
puled township, pluca or places, for which they
may bo chogon or appointed." Tho Act then
proscribes the form ia which the return shall
he made, the only claaaifioation ceqiiired heiog
first, as to MX, and secondly, whether under or
over sixteen years of age.
At the tin:.! the annual' returns are published,
it is no uncommon thing for the local newspa.
pors to compliiin of their inaccuracy Town,
ships are omitted oAcn to a very considerable
extent, so much so, indeed, that in the return of
183t>, out of neiirly 300 Townships, upwards of
fifty did not send in returns. Yet the accounts
were made up and published in thu Journals of
the Assembly — errors and omissinns notwith.
standing. Of lute years the fame complaints
have cun'iriucd, but wo have seen no lists of
omissions, though we know they exist, indeed
some few are noted on the margin of the return.
Now some of '.jiese omitted Townships, although
surveyed, miiy be snarcoly settled ; still it must be
evident, that others cannot but bo more or loss
populous ; hoivever, as at this distance wb have
no moans of clietking the censuses, wo must
fain content ourselves with, tind make the most
of such infonn-4tion as we find.
Whatever may be the errors of each year, wo
may fairly assume thai they are dislriliutcd over
the period in tolerably cqmil prnporliuns, so that
all ratios which wn may dt^duce from the olficiul
retur s will be sufficiently correct fur all prac.
tiuul purposes. This will lead us to some use.
ful results ; it A'ill give us the progressive rate
of increase, un4 enable us to stute the period of
doubling.
In the year 1823, the several returns exhibit-
ed a total of 125.5^3 pcrt'Ons ; in tlie ye ir I83'i,
the number had advanced to '260, 992, thus mak-
ing the period of doubling something under ton
years. We cannot, however, calculate on so
rapid a progress in future. The increase from
thb excess of births over deaths, will, without
doubt, remain unchecked for ug«s ; but although
iinmi<rrution may incruusc fioin yeor to year, it
is not likely to keep uit to the same proportion
of u population of live or six hundred thousand,
as it bears to a population of two hundred thou-
sand. Increase it may, aru most likely will,
but not in the same rjtiui as the first amount
of population. Thus the period of doubling
may bo prolonged from ten to twelve years ;
that the population of 1843 will be double that
of 1833, wo c«n see no room to doubt.
The assessor's returns offord us no means of
ascertaining what proportion of the annual in-
crease is the result of immigration, and what
proportion is the result of procreation, in all
statistical matters, especially such asinft''!)) i"
of the condition of the people, the Uppe- Prov-
ince is far inferior to this. We are not aware
that any returns have been made, or oven that
any accounts have beon kept of the births, mar-
riages, and deaths, and as iinn:igration is a fluc-
tuating increment, regulated perhaps by the
cutting of a canal, or any other temporary and
local demand for labour, we should be quite un<
warranted in assuming that the number which
passed up the St. Lawrence remained within the
British territory. Were we to do so, we should
find the rate of increase from procreation redu.
ced fdr below that which countries as favorably
circumstanced as Upper Canada usually exhibit.
The last census of which we are in posses-
sion, is that of the spring of 1833; nnfortun-
ately, however, we have only the totals of each
district. Wo must therefore depend on the re.
turns for the two previous yeais, for any con.
elusions we may draw as to the proportions
which obtains in Upper Canada between tba
sexes.
Statement of the number of Mates and Females in tach
of the DUtricls of Uppir Canatla, in the yeats 1931
and 1832.
Ural ^rzpszafe-gion
i I III
iiiiiiiiiiii
53 i _U(w<->-l«^4*M — •MOii^
rf>- wji**- o_^** g>g>to J
~ - C 4. I - -^ QC (.Q !■:. <4 ' ■ ■
s
So ";»*
.-. N— ta. I-. — . bi. I Mb
.-iit fcUg^U'."OC&»: I
^. 1
.»u —
w 1
00 juU
w 1
Cf> Ju
The efTuct of this great deficiency of females
must materially reduce the rate of increase be-
low that which would be exhibited by an equal
proportion. Its injurious effect upon population
is fur greuter than is indicated by mere num-
bers, inusinuch as it promotes incontinence to
an extent sufficient, we should say, to destroy
the fecundity of as many more. To reduce the
statement to figures, a populv'.ion of 2G0,992,
consisting of 137,859 males, and 123,133 fe.
males, that is wanting 14,726 females — would
only be as prolific as a population of 216,814,
equally proportioned in other words, there would
be on on average 14,726 females, and 29,432
males, wholly inoperative in continuing the
race.
A country favorably situated for increasing
its population will, without the aid of immigra-
tion, doable its numbers in twenty.five yesri.
uj and
uite un>
r which
ithin the
e should
on redu>
avorably
p exhibit.
n poHses-
inrortun*
B of each
n ihe re.
any con>
oportions
ween tba
le» in each
yeais 1331
e
n
H
»
O
H
i^
f
?
a
s-
J;^
1 ^
•-■ -
:n
Ni'
j3
»l s
\\l\ 1
:y of fomalcs
' increase be.
i by an equal
III population
r mere num.
ontinnnce to
y, to destroy
Co reduce tlie
n of 260,993,
I 123,133 fe.
nales — would
,n of 216,814,
3, there would
, and 29,452
ntinuing the
for increasing
A of immigra.
nty.five years,
'^: a:ff:^ ^^ K '■ >^^,,.
•' ft! ' : < <^; ' -^'it ' ''-'^ ' '-' ' ''-'' ' '' ■, ' -''-.i ' .^.'.-,'%i^ ' '^''y -f -' ■^y '^'t K -' ; ' ' ' ' '- :^ -:
'''**V^
v"r tj'iVf," :
m
.'^•i'-
' ' -wis
/i-w^'^ .*^<^ ^,^«- *^ ^
'
Thia requim an annual ineraaw of 3 per cent.
Were llio sexes equally proportioned, we know
of no country more likely to exhibit that rate
of increaso than Upper Canada. Soil, climate,
internal communication, the state of industry,
all are favorable. An accumulating rate of 3
per cent, could scarcely be maintained without
an equal distribution of the sexes ; hence we
may assume, that notwithsiandins tlin more fa-
vorable circunistnnces ofth« U|iper Province,
compared with those of the Lower Province, the
rate of increase from procreation alone, is about
the same as that of Lower Canada — namely, 2|
per cent.
Having, ns wo before stated, no mean* of sup.
plying tho dpficiencies of. the annual Returns,
we shall take them as they stand, and assuming
the natural rate of increase, as above fixed, the
balance will bo the increase from immigration.
The last 'total exhibited by the following table
is not from actual Returns. The Assessors' Ac.
counts, usually made up in April, have not os
yet been made public for the year 1831 ; hence,
we assume that the number of settlers said to
have gone to Upper Canada in 1833 have actual.
ly remained in that Province.
Tahle showing the ToUil I'lipuhtion of each District of
Upper Canada for each of the yean from 1829 to
1833.
t3 yi
OS S
a 3 DB
3~~ 3 °'
3 ■• 2 =
3 ? S "
18 •< » »
3 « "2
" = S 2
g. -^ 3 'B
3 = 3 • |S.|i»3
• I • ■ I (D • S ■ •
• I I • I • I • « ■ *
t I I • I • t • t • I
>4
n
§1
w % >-• ui 2 to Z> S> tji <-• u< \zi <s
cS SS •-> £ en u< t£ Q -• c u< I s 5
i
•o — <r oiODi wto.— ts»— I f Q
.^ QD .4 ui ^ tc 6^ a^>^ ^ S^ I M *^
u ta ^s M 1^ ^s CO ts w . t«
JO tJ -4 <i o; i 'i cj> (
>
■a
3.
>
•a
Much has been said in the Upper Canada par-
per? of the increase of that Province by moans
of immigration. If a dosen passengers arriv.
at a Canadian town from the American shore,
the fict is blazon'd forth in every journal of thu
Province, whilst t'le numbers that pass into Mi.
chigan from the Western District are seldom
spoken of. The number of persons who have
annually proceeded to Upper Canada by the
way of the St. Lawrence is accurately register-
ed. The nett gain of Upper Canada by meana
of immigration is exhibited by the above table,
and the balance between the two numbers will
show whether the migration between the United
StatoM and Canada be in 'avour of the former or
tho latter country.
Hears.
Supposed lohnvp
gone to U. C.
Actitnl increase
from immigiation
Dejuienry
or Excess
1929. . . .
1930. . .
1931....
1932. . . .
1933. . . .
127515
197 iO
26500
35H)0
19018
15)71
17«7
20 1?
29027
1804d
+2315
— 893
~ fi05^
- 5973
Totals
111U21
100115
— 10609
So that tho interohiinge of people t>otu'een Ca.
nada and the United States, during the five years
ending 1833, has am-mnted to nearly 11,000
agiiinpt Cannd.). It is said that since the spring
of 1833 iho tide has been setting towards Upper
Canada ; but so it has been said every year, yet
tho censuses stubbornly refuse to realize the ex-
pectations of the people of Upjier Canada on the
point. That mnny have gone to 1'pper Canada
by way of New York we know, but ive suspect
a larger number havo gone to the States by the
St. Liwrence. By the litter route the rate of
paFsage is low, and although the accommoda.
tions, if such they can be colled, arc wretched,
the poor cannot choose. On the other hand,
those in better circumstances can choone the
New York route, which is not only a more com.
fortable access to Canada, but eniblos tlie immi.
grant to reash the place of his destination at an
earlier period of the year.
PUPULATION OF THB LOWER PROVINCES^ NOVA SCOTIA, NEW BEUNSWWKy 4f
NOVA SCOTIA.
Th« last census of the Proviiide of l^ova
Scotia was taken in the yoar 1827. It is com>
^fehensivo in its detaits, nnd was at the time ge.
nernllj eonsi<^ored nccurato. The rollowing is
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deaths Air tliu year cuinciites with Ihe a vi-fa^o, wa
hiive i2,G55 us (he iiicrense of the popul.iiinrf
ih It year. Deducting then Q.fi.W frnin the fn^
pnlation iif the year we huve 121, rg.) ns the po.
pukition of ihe previonv year, whi'th'fiii'niMliecf
OS with that 8ur|iluR numlier of births. Th<-s»
d.ita cniiliie us lo find the rate nf innreaxe by
procreutiun, wliiuh is sontething under 2 1.5 per
cent, per nmiuni, — a rate ounsiiWibly belnW
that which Lower Canada, an we have already
khewn, exhibits.
Tlie increase by immigration we liave no
inuanH of asccrtaininsr. thciugh wo have reason
t<> l>('lii>ve it is nut very nfM — certunly not
much exceeding 1^ per cunt, on the popiila.
tion^ — (or tlio last vevtinteen ^r eiirhtei-n years.
In 1817 a ci^nsus was tuiteii, which give
8(i,6(i8 as thu pnpuhition at thut t me, wliich
gives the annual rate ef iiicrniiKfl as nearly ')}
per cont., and the accumulition in ten years
as 41) per cent., making the period of duubliug
nineteen years and a half.
If these O'llcul.itions bo correct, and thoy can.
not bo matorially wrnng, wo sifall hive 1.54 4<>1'
as the population at thti clusn of IM33. If iin.
migration have exceeded from 1,5011 to 2,0110 a.
year (litrini; the lust six ye.irs. the populiiinn
mny probably now reach, or even excoud
160,000.
There is tlio samn deficioncy of females rci
niarkable in the populition of Nnv:i !>!cotia as
wo huve already noticed in that of Upper Ca-
nada There are
Males f>3,7r.9
Fcnial?8 .... 60,132
or =
1.055
1,000
Deficiency . - 3,34V
And if the effoct lie such as we have supposed,
when spe.'iking ofthe same foaturo in thopnpula.
tinn nf Upper Canada, wo heve a population of
12:i8l8 only as efficient as one of 114,150.
Most of the inhabitants of Nova Scotia
speak the English language, the exception be.
ing only that small remnant of the oppressed
Acadians, who preserve all their distinutivq
characteristics. They do not soatter them.
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■implrin their manners and habits, cheerful in
t!ieir disposition, courteous and hospitable to
straufers, and strictly moral. In short, they
are rouoh like our own population, except that
they want the intelligence which the Canadian
peasant possesses.
NEW BBUMSWICK.
A eensos of the population of this Frovinea
was taken in 1824, which gave the following re>
flulta :—
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Mr. BoucHETTB supposes the population of
New Brunswick to have increased 19,524 in se.
ver veors ; in the absence of more satisfuctory
data, wn shall assume the population to have in.
nreased at the sama rate as that of Nova Scotia,
which will give 101,830 as the population at the
close of 1833. A census has recently bean tak.
en, but it has not been made public. We
■hould not be surprised to find it give a higher
number than our assumed total, as a very con.
liderablo influx of immigrants has taken place
within the last two or three years. We need
scarcely say that we are quite unable to furnish
any details.
CAPE BRETON.
We cannot find any record of a census of this
iiland for many years past. In Boucubtte's
" Aeoount .of the British Dominion^ wtt find
the population stated in round numbers a« high
as 30,000 in 1831. As no cannot suppose b^
would give a number without good authority,
we shall assume that to have been the popult*
tion at the close of that year, which, supposing
the rate of increase to be 3 per cent-, will give
31,800 as the population at the close of 1833.
raiNOB EDWARD'S ISLAND.
A census of the population of Prince Edward's
Island was taken in the summer of 1S33, under
tlte authority of a statute of the Legislature of
that Inland. The following is an abstract i—
Males 16,»10
Females .... 15,452
Total Population ... —— 32,293
Insane - - . .57
Aeres of Land occupied .... 387,616
Acres of improved Land occupied • . 94,631
Cows 13.869
Oxen 3,377
Other kinds of Neat Cattle • • 13,182
Horsss 6,299
Sheep 50,510
Hogs ao,7(»
fBushels of Wheat • . 128,350
Raised during) *• Barley • • 38,851)
the lost Year. 1 » Oats • • 261,664
I " Potatoes • • 1,310,063
Grist Mills . . . . / 46
Saw Mills 29
Schools 74
Children under 16 years. ( ^'le. '■ '■T'^O
Total under 10 years - 16,207
sc'^oiars. (K,«,, : : : :'.|?|
Total number of Scholars - - 8,166
It exhibits the saino want of females as we
havo already had occasion to notice in other
Colonies ; the defi<'ioncy in this case being 9
per cent., miking the populatinn only as effici.
ent as one of 28,128 equ-jlly divided. Of immi-
gration, mortality, births and marriages, rate of
increase, and so forth, « e have no information.
Adding half a year'c increase we have 32,676 as
the number at the close of 1833.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
We have seen vnrious estimates of the popu.
lation of Newfoundland. Mr. Bouohbttb says,
*' it has recently been rated as high as 90,000,
bnt truth will probibly be more strictly consult,
ed in fixing the number at 75,000." We have
seen some estimatcii fixing it as high as 100,000.
The Third Report of the Committee of tho
House of Common -J on Emigration gives 63,644
as the to:nl of a census in 1825. We are not
aware of uny census of so late a date, but wa
presume it must have been from some private
estimate. So scattered, and at the same time
so fluctuating, is the population of that peculiar-
ly circumstanced Island, that no reliance could
be had on any census for twelve months after
its publication, as a change in a treaty, or a 8ta>
tute, might drive half its inhabitants to sonw
other «hore.
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Ai for the rata of ineraaie, we should not
eonsider it to be very great— probably not over
2^ per cent., which rate gives 77,541 as the po.
pulation of Newfoundland at the close of 1833.
We believe the Legislature of last Session au.
thorized a census during the present year.
Having gone through the offiotal information
with which we have been able to meet, and cor-
rected the whole for the close of the last year,
we aro now able to give our readers a Table of
the Population of the whole of the British Ame-
ricftn Provinoas fbr tha yaar 1833.
Table iff Ihe Populatim tf the BritUt Amtrieait Co-
lonie$, giving (Ae htat CentuM cftoA, mi (hi uti-
mated Population </ the hut Ytuf,
Colonies.
Population aceorimg to
latt CcMM, leith dUs
prefbed.- .
im.
Li)wer Canada -
Upper Canada •
Nova Scotia -
New Brunswick
Cape Breton
P. Edward's Island
Newfoundland -
July, 1831,511,917 fl96,4S9
AprU, 1832,896,544 388,005
"' 1887, 183,848 154,400
1884, 74,176 101,830
BouehaMa,1831, 30,000 31,800
July. 1833, 38,898 38.«7»
' im, 63,644 77,541
Total population of British North Answer )
at the end of 1833 . - {
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