TABLE V. Total population.... Population five years and over No. at school Male Education of the people-School attendance and educational status. Classes. CANADA. POPULATION. Female No. of five years and over can read only New Brunswick. Total population.... Population five years and over No. at school.. Male Female No. of five years and over can read only Nova Scotia. Total population.... Population five years and over No. at school Male Female No. of five years and over can read only. No. can read and write... No. cannot read TABLE V. Classes. Education of the people-School attendance and educational status-concluded. POPULATION. ... Female No. of five years and over can read only. The Territories.2 Total population Population five years and over. No. at school.. No. of five years and over can read only No. can read and write.... No. cannot read.... Unorganised Territories.8 Total population.. Population five years and over. No at school.... Male.. Female No. of five years and over can read only. No. can read and write.... No. cannot read..... 1891. 1,191,516 1,359,027 1,488,535 1,648,898 1,009,038 1,152,548 1,269,546 1,411,295 185,306 209,623 93,768 106,426 281,681 142,235 91,538 103,197 56,052 1,601,016 109,078 96,152 8,235 73,717 66,799 59,236 968 35,309 1901. 32,168 31,960 103,259 91,860 94,584 784,026 1,099,693 250,017 4 137 21,512 11,260 10,252 4,591 77,372 9,807 139,446 61,614 158,940 135,758 17,854 9,264 8,590 1,458 91,811 42,491 52,709 50,542 976 518 458 274 21,468 28,800 TABLE VI. Population of Canada in 1901, and representation in the House of Commons according to the districts of the Representation Acts 1903 and 1904. POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION. NOTE. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, the original provinces of the Dominion, were given representation in Parliament as provided in the B.N.A. Act, 1867, 8. 37. British Columbia and Prince Edward Island were admitted 20 July, 1871, by an Imperial Order in Council of 16 May in the saine year. Chapter 3 of 33 V. provided that on, from and after a day the Queen should by Order in Council admit Rupert's Land and Northwest Territory into the Dominion, there should be formed out of the same a province to be called the province of Manitoba. The admission of Rupert's Land and Northwest Territory was made under an Imperial Order in Council of 23 June, 1870, to date 15 July of the same year. Manitoba was admitted under authority chapter 3 of 33 V., 1870; but a doubt having arisen, the Imperial Parliament in 1871 passed an Act to make the Canadian Act valid and effectual. The Northwest Territories Representation Act, chapter 24 of 49 V. (assented to June, 1886), gave two members to Assiniboia, one member to Alberta and |