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THE FRENCH CANADIAN RACE.
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more than the natural increase. In other words the population has doubled in every 23 years instead of taking 27 years for that interesting operation.

The whole number of Canadians and persons born of Canadian parents in the United States in 1890 was 1,163,645 including Newfoundlanders who were not separated from Canadians in the United States Census. The Newfoundlanders in the United States and their progeny and a duplication of about 7,000 persons (mentioned in the United States Census Bulletin No. 97) would be about 27,000 which would leave the Canadians and their progeny of the first generation at 1,136,000 in the United States.

We have not only increased by the 1,773,240 more than the natural increase who are in Canada but by the 1,136,000 persons, first and second generations who are in the United States. Our natural increase would give us a population of 3,060,000. Our actual population is 5,969,239, of which 1,136,000 are in the United States. We have lost 19 per cent. and we have retained the 81 per cent.

Take the United States, the natural increase at the French Canadian standard would give them, in 1890, a population of 53,533,712 making the Census population of 1,790 the starting point. It was actually 62,622,250 or 9,088,538 more than the natural increase. Our neighbors have doubled their population every 25 years. That is they have taken two years more to accomplish that end than Canada has required, notwithstanding the fact that we contributed of first and second generations 1,136,000 to the population of the United States in 1890.

George Johnson.

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