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Numbers of buildings, dwellings, households and families, and average numbers of persons per dwelling, per household and per family, for urban centres of 30,000 population or over, 1941

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Numbers of buildings, dwellings, households and families, and average numbers of persons per dwelling, per household and per family, for urban centres of 30,000 population or over, 1941
	Population	Buildings¹	Dwellings occupied²	Dwellings vacant	House- holds	Families
	number
Brantford	31,948	6,921	8,191	40	8,543	8,152
Calgary	88,904	16,860	21,758	88	25,387	22,738
Edmonton	93,817	18,718	23,087	367	24,700	22,619
Fort William	30,585	5,633	6,360	10	6,763	6,881
Halifax	70,488	9,172	13,520	57	15,089	15,235
Hamilton	166,337	31,566	39,915	378	43,076	42,412
Hull	32,947	4,404	6,091	26	6,427	6,574
Kingston	30,126	4,749	6,538	98	7,226	7,135
Kitchener	35,657	6,720	8,463	50	9,215	8,778
London	78,264	17,153	20,227	417	21,050	19,434
Montréal	903,007	67,443	198,844	2,502	203,685	197,840
Ottawa	154,951	18,552	32,355	170	35,601	34,609
Outremont	30,751	2,991	6,919	65	7,038	7,033
Québec	150,757	12,373	26,895	283	28,170	27,594
Regina	58,245	10,144	12,982	81	15,390	13,765
St. Catharines	30,275	6,360	7,444	71	8,009	7,689
Saint John	51,741	5,937	11,858	127	12,241	11,580
Saskatoon	43,027	8,764	10,347	186	11,461	10,338
Sherbrooke	35,965	3,351	7,563	111	7,770	7,515
Sudbury	32,203	4,840	7,130	261	7,685	7,370
Toronto	667,457	87,353	147,180	2,466	175,736	168,218
Trois Rivières	42,007	3,609	7,376	84	7,688	7,871
Vancouver	275,353	58,393	70,718	1,368	80,826	70,583
Verdun	67,349	4,891	16,026	93	16,184	16,312
Victoria	44,068	9,633	11,442	178	13,236	10,854
Windsor	105,311	18,847	25,231	213	26,126	25,701
Winnipeg	221,960	35,903	48,796	541	59,607	56,369
1. Buildings used for habitation only.
2. Does not include dwellings with tenure not stated.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.