Speech #610250484

During the seven year preceding 1908 the Dominion of Canada showed an increase c population of 33.7 per cent. By the census of 1901 there wet 127.899 of our people residents of Canada. and at the same tim there were 1.179.807 Canadian people residing In the Unite States. Since 1900 497.892 persons have emigrated from th United States to Canada. 103.984 having gone there last year and there are probably today more than 600.000 of our people living in the Dominion and more than a million and a half of Canadians in the United States. I will print in the RECOR1D a statement showing by the census of Canada for 1001 and the census of the United States for 1900for the facts are not yet developed by the later census of either country as of todaythe respective number of each considerable class of population in the two countries at that time. and it will be perfectly manifest that. taken as a whole. the racial conditions of the two countries are as nearly alike as they would be If no boundary line separated them and we were in fact one country. United States. 1900. [Population. 76.303.387.] Native ------------------------------------------65. 843. 302 British --------------------------------------2. 783. 082 AustriaHungary --------------------------------275. 907 Holland --------------------------------------104. 197 Chinese -------------------------------------------- 81. 534 Danes ---------------------------------------- 153. 805 French --------------------------------------------104. 197 Germans ----------------------------------------- 2. 663.. 438 Italians ------------------------------------------- 484. 027 Japanese -----------------------------------------------------Norwegians ----------------------------------------336. 388 *Russians ------------------------------------------- 423. 726 Canadians ---------------------------------------1. 179. 807 Canada. 1901. [Population. 5.371.315.] Native ----------------------------------4. 671. 815 British --------------------------------------------- 390. 019 AustriaHungary ------------------------------------- 28. 407 BelgiumHolland ------------------ ------------------ 2. 665 Chinese --------------------------------------------- 17. 043 Danes ---------------------------------------------- 2. 075 French ---------------------------------------------- 7. 44 Germans -------------------------------------------- 27. 300 Italians ---------------------------------------------- . 854 Japanese -------------------------------------------- 4.674 Norwegians ------------------------------------------ 10. 256 Russians -------------------------------------------- 31. 231 United States Americans------------------------------ 127. 899 Both populations are truly cosmopolitan and bound together by family ties. business associations. mutual interests. and living to a large extent with a like environment. both separated from the rest of the world by broad oceans on either side. but touching each other along thousands of miles of an imaginary boundary line. with frequent and cheap means of transportation of persons and property from the great centers of each country to those of the other. with no passport system or military espionage system enforced by either nation. as is done by the nations of Europe. and each and all as free to come and go as the citizens of New York and New England.