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This is a list of Canadian historical population by province and territory, drawn from the Canadian census of population data and pre-Confederation censuses of Newfoundland and Labrador. Since 1871, Canada has conducted regular national census counts. The data for 1851 to 1976 is drawn primarily from Historical Statistics of Canada, 2nd edition ...
Canadian Passenger Association (French: Conseil canadien des services voyageurs [1]) was an association of railway companies serving Canada that authorized and administered discount rail fares for travel to conventions or special events [2] [3] [4] or to certain categories of travellers, such as commercial travellers, clergy, or charitable workers. [5]
October 15 – Willie O'Ree, ice hockey player, first Black Canadian player in the National Hockey League [4] October 20 – Russell Doern, politician (d. 1987) November 15 – Bill Graham, Canadian football player (d. 2020) November 17 – Audrey Thomas, novelist and short story writer; December 9 – Christopher Pratt, painter and printmaker ...
Statistics Canada conducts a national census of population and census of agriculture every five years and releases the data with a two-year lag.. The Census of Population provides demographic and statistical data that is used to plan public services such as health care, education, and transportation; determine federal transfer payments; [1] and determine the number of Members of Parliament for ...
The North-West Mounted Police is established to enforce Canadian sovereignty of the Northwest Territories. [64] 1 July: Prince Edward Island enters Confederation as the seventh province. [65] 3 October: Treaty 3 is signed between the Ojibwe First Nations and the Canadian Crown, surrendering lands in Northwestern Ontario (present-day) and ...
The 1666 census of New France was conducted by France's intendant, Jean Talon, in the winter of 1665–1666. The census showed a population count of 3,215 Acadians and habitants (French-Canadian farmers) in the administrative districts of Acadia and Canada. [73] The census also revealed a great difference in the number of men at 2,034 versus ...
Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007) – Squamish and Nuu-chah-nulth ; Nicola (1780/1785–c. 1865) – Grand chief of the Okanagan people, and jointly chief of the Nlaka'pamux-Okanagan-Nicola Athapaskan alliance in the Nicola Valley and of the Kamloops group of the Secwepemc; Andy Paull (1892–1959) – Squamish; Stewart Phillip
Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...