Never before had it been so easy to count Canadian nosesration books showed how many were eating, Dominion employment offices how many were working, Dominion rental bureaus who was living where. The Statistics Bureau decided that it could make an informed guess without waiting for 1951's door-to-door canvass.
The estimate: Canada's population is now 12,119,000. up 612,345 from the 1941 census figure. Three provinces (Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) have declined in population. Ontario has gained 216,345 and crossed the 4,000,000 mark. British Columbia has made the biggest proportional gain of all, with 131,139 new citizens for a total of 949,000.
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