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Land area and density of population, by province, census years 1951, 1956 and 1961
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| Population 1951 | Population 1956 | Population 1961 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land area | Total | Per square mile | Total | Per square mile | Total | Per square mile | |
| square miles | number | ||||||
| Canada | 3,560,238 | 14,009,429 | 3.93 | 16,080,791 | 4.52 | 18,238,247 | 5.12 |
| Canada (excluding the territories) | 2,101,454 | 13,984,329 | 6.65 | 16,049,288 | 7.64 | 18,200,621 | 8.66 |
| Newfoundland (including Labrador) | 143,045 | 361,416 | 2.53 | 415,074 | 2.90 | 457,853 | 3.20 |
| Prince Edward Island | 2,184 | 98,429 | 45.07 | 99,285 | 45.46 | 104,629 | 47.91 |
| Nova Scotia | 20,402 | 642.584 | 31.50 | 694,717 | 34.05 | 737,007 | 36.12 |
| New Brunswick | 27,835 | 515,697 | 18.53 | 554,616 | 19.93 | 597,936 | 21.48 |
| Quebec | 523,860 | 4,055,681 | 7.74 | 4,628,378 | 8.84 | 5,259,211 | 10.04 |
| Ontario | 344,092 | 4,597,542 | 13.36 | 5,404,933 | 15.71 | 6,236,092 | 18.12 |
| Manitoba | 211,775 | 776,541 | 3.67 | 850,040 | 4.01 | 921,686 | 4.35 |
| Saskatchewan | 220,182 | 831,728 | 3.78 | 880,665 | 4.00 | 925,181 | 4.20 |
| Alberta | 248,800 | 939,501 | 3.78 | 1,123,116 | 4.51 | 1,331,944 | 5.35 |
| British Columbia | 359,279 | 1,165,210 | 3.24 | 1,398,464 | 3.89 | 1,629,082 | 4.53 |
| Yukon | 205,346 | 9,096 | 0.04 | 12,190 | 0.06 | 14,628 | 0.07 |
| Northwest Territories | 1,253,438 | 16,004 | 0.01 | 19,313 | 0.02 | 22.998 | 0.02 |
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1967. | |||||||
