Canada has only a few red dots, of which Montreal is one.
In 1910, the population of the world (Wikipedia) is estimated to have been around 1,750,000,000.
Canada’s population via 1911 Census was 7, 204, 838.
The country was in the midst of an immigration boom, with 1912 a record year in immigration.
An article I read in a 1910 Technical Review, Racial Fertility and the War, claims that there is a great deal of talk of the coming war with Germany..”In the leading newspapers and the great reviews of Europe the prospect and the probabilities of the coming war have taken the place of the weather as the regular topic of discussion.”
This was one reason the suffragette movement scared people so. If women were allowed to be educated they would shirk their responsibility as providers of cannon fodder to the race. Something like that. Indeed, the concept of ‘race suicide’ was discussed out in the open. It had been coined by the US President.
Judging by the this picture, if rising seas due to Global Warming are going to remove miles of coastline..
According to the 1914 Canada Yearbook, Canada had the fastest growing population (per capita) in the world between 1901 and 1911. Montreal was Canada’s fastest growing city in Canada in the 1910 era. Between 1901 and 1911 its poplulation increased from 267,730 to 470, 480. This didn’t include the burbs.Westmount was a burb, for instance. Toronto had grown from 208,040 to 376, 538.
I read a quote from 1909 where a city official predicted Montreal would have 2 million citizens in 50 years. Well, he was off my another fifty years. The population of Montreal is 1, 620, 000 ish.
Toronto’s population is 2, 503,000 ish.
Take away former Montrealers and their issue and that figure falls to below 1,000,000. (Joking, a little.)
The Western Towns were booming too in 1910, but that’s a whole other story.
According to news media, there has been another immigration boom in Canada since this summer. Canada is letting in more skilled immigrants, the government reports.
