BRITISH BLOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 142, 19 June 1933, Page 3

BRITISH BLOOD

THE PEOPLES OF CANADA

CITY CENSUS FIGURES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) ■ VANCOUVER., April 26. Toronto is the most British city in Canada, according to the origin of * population, as disclosed by the recent Census. This pronouncement may, with « some 'reason, bo' contested by the residents of Montreal, -where the Census classifies as only 22 per cent. British. This disregards the fact that, in Montreal, Canada's largest city, a majority of the people come of a race that has inhabited Canada for 428 years —since the arrival of the first Trench settlers in- 1605, fifteen years before the Pil- ■ grim Fathers arrived in the Mayflower. ; The people of Montreal are classified as French. Yet, if a French family had settled in England as long ago as Montreal families settled in Canada, and, if the descendants of such a faniily came to Canad.a, they would be classed as British. Here are the official figures:— ' British Ter cent. City. Population. Origin. British. Montreal .. 818,577 J75.481 21.8 Toronto .. 631,207 510,432 50.9 ■ Vancouver . 2(6,393 150.152 77.1 •Winnipeg .. 218,785 132.37U 110.5 • Hamilton .. ir,5.r.4r 123,681 70.3 : Quebec 130,594 !>.CS3 7.4 Ottawa ... 126,872 78,512 61.5 In Toronto, the people of English origin far outnumber those whose ancestors came from, other portions of the Empire:— Tcr cent, of ' Orlcln. dumber. British total. English 282,759 ii-i.4 Irish 114,315 22.1 Scottish 107,943 21.1 Others 5,115 1.1 In Canada's 10,376,780 people, there is a surplus of 372,296 males. Vancouver has a 14 per cent, surplus of males. Winnipeg breaks almost even. Females predominate by Hi per cent, in Ottawa, 12$ per cent, in Quebec, 6| per cent, in Toronto, and 1} per cent, in Montreal. Thus, the farther west one ; travels, males predominate; the farther east, females predominate.

SOUTH ISLAND DOG TRIALS ' m (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) IXVEECAEGILL, June 17. The final event at the South Island dog trials champions-hips was decided toda} 1, the result being as under:— Huntaway with slew. C. McErkne's Bomp (IBS'/a points) .. 1 J. McChesner's .Glen (159 points) .... 2 W. Monk's Sweep Junior (144 points) . 3 E. Anderson's Glen (140 points) .4J. McAuley's Storm (133% points) .... 5 A. T. Miller's Syd (129% points) 6 Twenty-nine dogs competed.

A year ago Halwell House, in Plymouth, was a ruin. It had no roof; it had no tenant; it had no use in the world. The i unemployed men of Plymouth were offered this ruin. They took it gladly and they ' did not take one penny with it, but now have it in perfect condition.