Census


The first census in Canada seems to have been taken in 1640,

when the inhabitants numbered 375, distributed as follows: married men,

64; married women (three born in Canada), 64; widower, 1; widows, 4;

unmarried men, 35; boys (30 born in Canada), 58; girls (24 born in

Canada), 48; nuns, 6; Jesuits, 29; others, 66. Benjamin Sulte finds the

population in 1650 to have been 705; and in 1663 about 2500. The census

of 1665 g
ves the total population as 3251. The first census of the

Dominion was taken in 1871, when the population was 3,635,024; the

census of 1881 gave a total of 4,324,810; of 1891, 4,833,239; of 1901,

5,371,315. See also Acadians. =Index=: (Lord Elgin era) Provided for by La

Fontaine-Baldwin government, 86; placed under Department of Agriculture

by Hincks-Morin government, 117. (Count Frontenac era) Of 1666, 55. =Bib.=: Census of

Canada, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901. See also Johnson, First

Things in Canada; and General Index, Trans. R. S. C., under Census.



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