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Rural and urban populations, by provinces and territories, decennial censuses 1891 to 1931 and numerical increases 1921 to 1931
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| 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural | Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | Urban | |
| number | ||||||
| Canada | 3,296,141 | 1,537,098 | 3,357,093 | 2,014,222 | 3,933,696 | 3,272,947 |
| Prince Edward Island | 94,823 | 14,255 | 88,304 | 14,955 | 78,758 | 14,970 |
| Nova Scotia | 373,403 | 76,993 | 330,191 | 129,383 | 306,210 | 186,128 |
| New Brunswick | 272,362 | 48,901 | 253,835 | 77,285 | 252,342 | 99,547 |
| Quebec | 988,820 | 499,715 | 994,833 | 654,065 | 1,038,9341 | 966,8421 |
| Ontario | 1,295,323 | 818,998 | 1,246,969 | 935,978 | 1,198,8032 | 1,328,489 |
| Manitoba | 111,498 | 41,008 | 184,7753 | 70,4363 | 261,0292 | 200,365 |
| Saskatchewan | * | - | 77,0134 | 14,2665 | 361,0374 | 131,3954 |
| Alberta | * | - | 54,489 | 18,533 | 236,6335 | 137,6625 |
| British Columbia | 60,945 | 37,228 | 88,478 | 90,179 | 188,796 | 203,684 |
| Yukon Territory | * | - | 18,077 | 9,142 | 4,647 | 3,865 |
| Northwest Territories | * | - | 20,129 | - | 6,5072 | - |
| Royal Canadian Navy | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| * The population (98,967) in the area that comprises the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and Yukon and the Northwest Territories was classified as rural in the Census of 1891. | ||||||
| ** Members of the Royal Canadian Navy were counted at their homes in the Census of 1931. | ||||||
| 1. The urban population of 970,791, shown in Volume 1, Census 1911, is reduced to 966,842 by the transfer of the populations of Maniwaki, Martinville, Moisie, St. Bruno, St. Martin and St.-Vincent de Paul from urban to rural; by adjustments in area of the villages of St. Anne and Ste. Geneviève; and the Extension of Boundaries Act, 1912. | ||||||
| 2. As changed by Extension of Boundaries Act, 1912. | ||||||
| 3. As corrected in Census Report, Prairie Provinces, 1916. | ||||||
| 4. Urban and rural population for 1911 and 1901 are as corrected in Census Report, Prairie Provinces, 1916. | ||||||
| 5. Volume 1, Census 1911, places the urban population of Alberta for that year at 141,937. Included in this figure was the population (5,250) of 12 places which, according to the Report of the Municipal Commissioner for Alberta, were not then incorporated. The places so included were Aetna, Banff, Bankhead, Bellevue, Bickerdike, Canmore, Cardiff, Exshaw, Hillcrest, Passburg, Queenston and Elmpark. The correction resulting from this and from other small adjustments was based upon more definite knowledge on incorporated areas, and places the urban population for 1911 at 137,662. Similar corrections have been made in the urban and rural figures for the Census of 1901. | ||||||
| 6. This includes South Vancouver and Point Grey, with 1921 populations of 32,267 and 13,736, respectively, which were then classified as "rural". | ||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937. | ||||||
