A first look at longitudinal data from the Canadian censuses of 1871 and 1881The considerable importance of the North American census for historical research derives from its rich systematic detail and a paucity of alternate sources describing the population.2 In the absence of other sources Canadian...
Although there are French Canadians in each of the provinces, by far the greatest number can be found in the province of Québec. In 1991, 81 percent of the population of Québec cited French as their "mother tongue" (the first language spoken as a child and still understood), compared ...
Honore Beaugrand spent the next few years working various jobs in France, Mexico, and the United States. In 1871, he established himself in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, home to a sizeable population of Quebecois immigrants, and quickly became one of the town’s leading French-Canad...
The population of Canada has consistently risen, doubling approximately every 40 years, since the establishment of the Canadian Confederation in 1867.[41] In the mid-to-late 19th century, Canada had a policy of assisting immigrants from Europe, including an estimated 100,000 unwanted "Home Childre...
Although there has always been a flow of people between Canada and the United States, reliable data has only been kept since the 1910 census of the United States and the 1911 census of Canada. Migration is also somewhat seasonal: the Canadian American population swells in the winter months. ...
The net photosynthetic response matrix to four light levels combined with four temperatures and for a full range of thallus hydration has been defined for aCladonia–woodland population ofCladonia rangiferinain midsummer and early winter. Maximum rates of net photosynthesis are generated between 150 and...
Mattawa Hospital ‘A very large floating population of men’ In an 1883 report of his inspection of the Mattawa Hospital, which he had visited on July 23, 1882, W.T. O’Reilly noted that hundreds of men passed through Mattawa “in the… Continue reading → Newspaper “Jollies” East ...
n = 69,856), even though self-identified MSM comprise only an estimated 2.1 % of the Canadian population [1, 2]. In the first two decades of the epidemic, this disproportionate burden was characterized by premature mortality across MSM communities [...
"Immigration is necessary for Canada's growth. At the same time, we must be sensitive to the need to balance our demographic and economic needs with our capacity to settle and absorb immigrants."(1) Immigration has played a major part historically in the growth of Canada"s population. Betwee...
We have previously shown that the expression of TLR1/2-mediated immune response elements induced in the presence of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)-related lipoprotein in macrophages are differentially regulated in a Canadian First Nation (Dene) population, compared to a Canadian non-Indigenous coho...