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 Appendix A Date of introduction of printing in a few Canadian cities 1751 - Halifax, Nova Scotia 1764 - Quebec City, Quebec 1776 - Montreal, Quebec 1783 - Saint John, New Brunswick 1783 - Shelburne, Nova Scotia 1787 - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 1793 - Niagara, Ontario 1798 - York [Toronto], Ontario 1807 - Saint John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (formerly Newfoundland) 1841 - Norway House, Manitoba 1858 - Victoria, British Columbia 1859 - Winnipeg, Manitoba 1860 - New Westminster, British Columbia 1880 - Edmonton, Alberta  |
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| Population of Canada (Approx. figures in thousands) | |||||
| ca. 1791 | ca. 1845 | 1851 | 1871 | 1901 | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador (formerly Newfoundland) | 15 | 96 | 124* | 147** | 221*** |
| New Brunswick | 20 | 155 | 194 | 286 | 331 |
| Nova Scotia | 40 | 202 | 277 | 388 | 460 |
| Prince Edward Island | 6 | 47 | 63 | 94 | 103 |
| Lower Canada (Quebec) | 171 | 697 | 890 | 1192 | 1649 |
| Upper Canada (Ontario) | --- | 432 | 952 | 1621 | 2183 |
| Manitoba | --- | --- | --- | 25 | 255 |
| Saskatchewan | --- | --- | --- | --- | 91 |
| Alberta | --- | --- | --- | --- | 73 |
| British Columbia | --- | --- | 55 | 36 | 179 |
| Yukon | --- | --- | --- | --- | 27 |
| North West Territories | --- | --- | 5 | 48 | 20 |
| * For the year 1857. Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1981- ** For the year 1869. Ibid. *** For the year 1902. Ibid. Modified from Historical Statistics of Canada. 2nd ed. 1983. |
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| Literacy Rates (% of population) | |||||
| 1861 | 1871 | 1891 | 1901 | ||
| (over 20 years old) | (over 20 years old) | (over 20 years old) | (over 5 years old) | ||
| Ontario | 92.8 | 92.1 | 93.1 | 91.3 | |
| Quebec | 64.1 | 64.1 | 70.4 | 82.3 | |
| Maritimes | 77.4* | 84.2 | 91.9 | 85.4 | |
| West | --- | --- | 88.9 | 77.8 | |
| Canada as a whole | --- | 81.1 | 84.7 | 85.6 | |
| * Nova Scotia only. Modified from Paul Rutherford. A Victorian Authority: The Daily Press in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada. 1982. |
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