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THE BRITISH EMPIRE : —CANADA
There are no vital statistics collected for the Dominion ; it is therefore impossible to say what is the rate of natural increase of the population. The death rate per 1,000 was as follows in 1891 in the towns named: — Montreal, 28-11; Toronto, 15-61; Quebec, 41*11; Hamilton, 16*23; Halifax, 20-51 ; Ottawa, 21-35 ; St. John, KB., 19-75 ; Winnipeg, 14-66; Victoria, B.C., 19-35.
As it has been found impossible to collect trustworthy figures, no returns concerning emigration and immigration are now published. A tax of 50 dollars a head is levied on all Chinamen landing at Vancouver, but the number of Chinese immigrants is largely on the increase.
Religion.
There is no State Church in the whole of British North America. The Church of England is governed by twenty bishops, with about 1,000 clergy ; the Roman Catholic Church by one cardinal, seven archbishops, twenty-three bishops, and about 1,500 clergy ; and the Presbyterian Church in Canada, with about 1,000 ministers — formed in 1875 by the union of two formerly dis- tinct bodies — by presbyteries, synods, and an annual assembly as in the Scotch Church, with 2,358 churches and stations. The Methodists have 1,700 and the Baptists about 500 ministers. All these bodies have one or more divinity schools. The number of members of each religious creed in the Dominion was as follows at the census of April 6, 1891 : —
Roman Catholics
Presbyterians
Anglicans
Methodists .
Baptists
Lutherans
1,992,017 755,326 646,059 847,765 303,839 63,982
Congregationalists , Miscellaneous creeds. No creed stated
Total
28,157 106,739 189,355
4,833,239
Including Pagans.
The following shows the numbers of the leading denominations in the several provinces according to the census of 1891 : —
Province
Roman Catholic
358,300
Church of England
385,999
Presby- terian
Methodist
Baptist 106,047
Ontario
453,147 654,033
Quebec
1,291,709
75,472
52,673
39,544
7,991
Nova Scotia
122,452
64,410
108,952
54,195
83,122
New Brunswick .
115,961
43,095
40,639
35,504
79,649
Manitoba .
20,571
30,852
39,.001
28,437
16,112
British Columbia
20,843
23,619
15,284
14,298
3,098
Prince Edward Island .
47,837
6,646
33,072
13,596
6,265
The Territories .
14,344
15,966
12,558
8,158
1,555
