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”FIFTY MILES OF WHITE SAND Dumas”

ITS POPULATION

RINCE EDWARD ISLANI) is the smallest member of the Canadian Family, but it is more than twice as thickly settled as any other Province, the proportion being 54.5 persons to the square mile. Its population according to the census of 1891 was 109,078, of which 54,881 were males, and 54,197 females. The proportion of urban and rural population to the total population was: urban 13°/O and rural 87%.

The Scotch muster about 49,000, the Irish 25,000, the English 21,000, and the French about 12,000. The Roman Catholics number 47,837, the Presbyterians 32,988, the h’Iethodists 13,596, Church of England 6,646, and the Baptists 6,265. Churches prettily situated are numerous, and the Roman Catholic body possesses brick edifices on commanding sites at Tignish, Fort Augustus, Vernon River, St. Peters’ Bay, Souris and elsewhere. In 1891 there were 266 churches, of which 85 were Presbyterian, 68 were Methodist, 43 Roman Catholic, 42 Baptist, 21 Church of England, and 7 miscel. laneous. The number of Clergymen was 122. The inhabitants are largely engaged in agriculture; but some attention is devoted to the fisheries and to the breeding of stock. As will be seen from the above, the population is of mixed origin,