Commis

74. In January, 1887 Sir Charles Tupper came to this The High country to fill the position of Minister of Finance, but has sioner. continued to attend to the duties of the High Commissioner, though without salary.

eigns in

75. A list is given below of the sovereigns and rulers soverof the principal countries in the world, with dates of birth, principal titles, and dates of assumption of office.

countries.

longest

76. It will be noticed that the Emperor of Brazil has oldest and reigned longer than any other Monarch, having succeeded reigning to the throne in 1831, at the age of six years. Queen Victoria eigns. comes next, succeeding in 1837, at the age of eighteen years. Owing to the death of William I, Emperor of Germany, on 9th March, 1888, a few days before completing his 91st year, William III of Holland is the oldest Sovereign. The King of Spain is still the youngest Sovereign in the world, being not yet two years old.

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Census 1871 and

1881.

CHAPTER II.

POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS.

77. The last census of the Dominion of Canada was taken on the 4th April, 1881, and the following table is a comparative statement of the population at that date, and on 2nd April, 1871, the date of the preceding census :—

POPULATION OF CANADA-1871 AND 1881.

For full particulars of the census of 1881, see Statistical Abstracts for 1885 and 1886, Chap. II.

the Provi

tricts of

West 1885.

78. In order to ascertain what progress had been made in Census of the settlement of the North-West, a census of three of the sional Disprovisional districts of the North-West Territories was the Northtaken on the 24th August, 1885, which showed that their population consisted of 48,362, of whom 20,170 were Indians, as follows:

CENSUS OF THE THREE DISTRICTS OF THE NORTH-WEST

sons can

79. No comparisons of any kind can be made between the Comparireturns of the census of 1885 and 1881, as the figures in the not be earlier census were largely estimated, and moreover had

made.