BUREAU OF PROVINCIAL INFORMATION.

POPULATION OF ,

ACCORDING TO

PROPOSED ELECTORAL DISTRICTS,

VICTORIA, B.C : Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1902.

2 ED 7 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 743

POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The following figures are taken from the official census returns of the Dominion just received, are apportioned, as nearly as possible, according to the Electoral Divisions outlined in the Redistribution Bill at present before the Legislative Assembly.

BY ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. ALBERNI: Alberni Village and District 502 Clayoquot 147 Ucluelet 107 Cape Scott 65 Quatsino 85 Lasqueti 30 Texada 505 Wellington 100 Indians 3,301 4,842 : Union Bay and Courtenay 622 Comox District 568 Union Village and District 1,881 Sayward . . 361 Thurlow Island 138 Coast 900 Indians 770 5,240 : Chemainus 1,272 Cowichan Municipality 407 Duncan 465 Cowichan Lake 52 Shawnigan 265 Cowichan Station 258 Indians 779 3,498 ESQUIMALT : Sooke 318 San Juan 97 Malahat 115 Highland 100 Esquimalt 946 Parson's Bridge, Colwood, &c 226 Metchosin 160 Indians 89 2,051 NANAIMO : Nanaimo City 6,130 NEWCASTLE : Cranberry and Bright 1,660 Extension Mines 2,160 Cedar and Oyster 526 Indians 528 4,874 744 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 1902

SAANICH : Royal Oak and Saanich 406 South Saanich 331 Oak Bay 1,418 Cedar Hill 590 Tolmie 468 Indians , 199 3,412 : Victoria City (including Indians, 103) 20,919 ISLANDS : Sidney Townsite and adjacent islands 368 Pender Island 249 Mayne Island, &c , 200 Gossip and Galiano Islands 141 Salt Spring Island , 558 Gabriola, Valdez and Mudge islands 162 Indians 140 1,260 ATLIN : Pine City, Spruce Creek, Pine Creek, &c 671 Atlin City 486 Bennett, Pennington, &c 885 Telegraph Creek, &c 770 2,812 : Rivers Inlet 333 China, Princess Royal Island, &c 33 Namu, Bella Bella, &c 40 Bella Coola, &c 183 Lowe Inlet, Hartley Bay, Kitamat, &c 65 Standard and Moore's Cove 216 Port Essington, Balmoral, &c 374 Inverness 167 Lome Creek 88 Hazleton and Interior 144 Metlakahtla and Post 67 Georgetown, Fort Simpson, Naas River 213 Queen Islands .19 Indians 6,673 8,715 CITY (including Indians, 877) 26,386 NEW WESTMINSTER 6,499 CHILLIWACK : Port Matsqui Municipality 729 Sumas Municipality 256 Chilliwack Municipality 2,127 Indians, Fraser Agency 568 3,680 DELTA : Delta Municipality, Ladner, Guichon and Chinatown 2,145 Port Surrey Municipality 1,377 Port Langley Municipality 1,266 Indians, Fraser Agency 286 5,074 RICHMOND: Part of Richmond Municipality 3,262 Part of South Vancouver Municipality 871 Part of Burnaby Municipality 669 4,802 2 ED. 7 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 745

DEWDNEY: Coquitlam Municipality, Pitt Lake and Millside 257 Part of Maple Ridge Municipality and Mission Municipality 1,016 Parts of Mission and Dewdney Municipalities and Nicomen Island 870 Nicomen and Kent Municipalities, Harrison Lake 1,034 Indians, Fraser Agency .' 590 3,767 CARIBOO : Chimney Creek and 150-Mile House 556 Barkerville, Richfield, various creeks and neighbourhood 457 , Hanceville, Alexis Creek, etc 121 Alexandria, Soda Creek, Forks, etc 634 Stanley and neighbourhood, Quesnel, etc 523 Fort George, Stuart's Lake, Fort Graham, etc 927 Indian Reserves , 289 3,507 LILLOOET : Clinton Village and vicinity 246 Bonaparte, Hat Creek and vicinity 98 Big Bar, Dog Creek and vicinity 178 Alkali Lake, Dog Creek, Fraser River, etc Ill Lac La Hache and vicinity 156 Lillooet Village 303 Cayoosh Creek, Pacelqua and vicinity 122 Pemberton Portage and vicinity, Pemberton Meadows 38 Big Four Creek, Gun Creek Flat and vicinity 106 Little Slide, 14-Mile Creek, Big Slide, Fraser River and vicinity 186 High Bar, Chilcotin River, Big Creek and vicinity 215 Indian Reserves : Fraser 255 Williams 1,971 3,985 COLUMBIA : Roger's Pass, Beavermouth, &c 304 Golden and Moberly 762 Hector and Field 251 Brisco, Galena and Columbia Valley Ill Canterbury, Peterborough and vicinity 242 Windermere 257 Fairmont Springs, &c 11 1,938 FERNIE : Fort Steele 590 Wild Horse Creek and vicinity 155 Elko, Coal Creek, &c 363 Michel Creek, Crow's Nest, &c 998 Fernie 1,640 3,746 NELSON CITY 5,172 YMIR: Waneta , 960 Ymir Town 256 Sirdar, Kuskonook, etc 202 Creston and vicinity 512 Trail City 1,360 Smelter Junction 227 Velvet Mine 258 West Robson , 112 Fire Valley , 41 3,928 746 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 1902

CRANBROOK: Kimberly 262 Cranbrook 1,196 758 Indians 546 2,762 REVELSTOKE : Illecillewaet 117 Albert Canyon 38 Revelstoke and vicinity ... 1,779 Arrow Head 223 Comaplix 100 Lardeau 78 Big Bend 26 2,361 ROSSLAND CITY 6,133 SLOCAN: 223 Burton City 83 Slocan City 950 New Denver , 725 Sandon and vicinity 839 Three Forks and vicinity 689 3,509 KASLO : Kaslo City and vicinity 2,118 Ferguson 130 Trout Lake 165 Lardo 78 2,491 GRAND FORKS: Fife, Gladstone and vicinity 94 Cascade and vicinity , 144 Grand Forks and vicinity 1,173 North Fork Kettle River 239 Columbia City 508 ' Phcenix City 1,004 Phoenix Station, etc 433 3,595 GREENWOOD : Summit City 488 Boundary Falls , 120 Greenwood and vicinity 1,853 Midway and vicinity 626 3,087 OKANAGAN: Mara 143 Armstrong 221 Spallumcheen 554 Enderby 270 Vernon City 802 Vernon District 409 Lumby 284 Peachland , 284 Okanagan Mission 360 Kelowna 375 Penticton , 252 Salmon Arm Valley 246 4,200 2 ED. 7 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 747

SIMILKAMEEN : Similkameen 229 Fairview 282 Sidley 465 Granite Creek 67 Princeton , 316 1,359 KAMLOOPS : Kamloops City 1,591 Armour's and Lewis Creek , . 80 Edwards Creek and South Thompson Division 132 Cherry Creek 397 Grand Prairie and vicinity 187 Monte Creek, Douglas Lake, etc 112 Campbell Creek 164 Kualt and Notch Hill 410 Salmon Arm and vicinity , 295 Savona 246 3,614 YALE : Nicola Lake District 223 Agassiz 267 Hope 263 Yale 174 Spuzzum 68 North Bend 276 Lytton 364 Spence's Bridge 150 Ashcroft 475 Lower Nicola 183 Valley 96 2,539 INDIAN RESERVES (distributed throughout Yale, Kamloops, Okanagan and Similkameen) 4,201

BY FEDERAL DISTRICTS. Constituency. Total. Rural. Urban. Burrard 41,407 14,233 27,174 New Westminster 23,822 17,323 6,499 Vancouver 26,391 19,112 7,279 Victoria 23,763 2,947 20,816 Yale-Kootenay-Cariboo 61,889 34,210 27,679

British Columbia 177,272 87,825 89,477

BY ORIGINS. Austrian 795 Belgian , 392 British— English 52,910 Irish 20,661 Manx , 41 Scotch 31,073 Welsh 1,781 Chinese 14,869 Dutch 444 Finnic 669 Flemish 127 French , 4,601 748 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 1902

German 5,984 Indian 25,593 Indian, English breed 734 Indian, French breed 496 Indian, Irish breed 233 Indian, Scotch breed 596 Indian, other breeds 1,297 Italian , 1,976 Japanese 4,597 Jewish , 146 Negro , 523 Russian 402 Scandinavian 643 Danish 659 Icelandic 171 Norwegian 1,058 Swedish 2,348 Slavic 350 Swiss 242 Unspecified 1,460 Various origins 786

BY NATIONALITIES. American 10,070 Austro-Hungarian 874 Belgian 161 Canadian 144,994 Chinese 14,201 Danish 271 French 178 German 599 Italian 1,010 Japanese 3,511 Norwegian 365 Russian 625 Swedish 850 Swiss 83 Various nationalities 865

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND INDIANS. Chinese. Japanese. Indians and Breeds. Burrard 2,852 1,597 8,954 New Westminster 2,548 1,317 3,231 Vancouver 2,654 1,062 5,765 Victoria 3,004 338 333 Yale and Cariboo 3,811 282 10,666

SEXES AND CONJUGAL CONDITION.

SEXES. SINGLE. MARRIED. WIDOWED. DIVORCED.

CENSUS DISTRICTS. Males. Females Males. (Females Males. Females Males. Females Males. Females

26,060 16,000 17.220 8,844 8,228 6,323 610 832 2 1 15,017 8,805 9,419 4,847 5,260 3,565 331 387 7 6 16,860 10,263 9,397 4,570 7,200 5,359 256 327 7 7 14,304 9,459 9,027 5,193 4,960 3,643 310 614 7 9 41,840 20,049 29,110 11,095 11,836 8,279 866 661 29 14

Total 114,081 64,576 74,173 34,649 37,484 27,169 2,372 2,821 52 37 2 ED. 7 POPULATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 749

The following is a return of votes polled in the Dominion and Provincial Elections, 1900, according to the proposed Electoral Divisions under the Redistribution Bill of 1902 :— Total votes polled. Dominion. Provincial. Alberni 567 819 Atlin 193 524 Chilliwack 533 534 Cariboo 306 489 .... 499 638 273 340 Columbia 308 435 364 Delta .... 707 729 540 634 584 410 * Fernie 356 Grand Forks 436 652 411 607 Islands 271 429 Kaslo .... 487 620 769 958 Lillooet 460 441 Nanaimo 918 839 Newcastle 271 323 Nelson 663 1,154 New Westminster 1,235 1,195 Okanagan ... 605 823 520 563 576 738 1,003 1,169 Saanich 665 476 Similkameen 179 282 Skeena .... 129 168 Slocan 605 711 Vancouver 4,132 4,210 list) 4,339 3,062 Yale 331 533 Ymir 475 722 * Owing to the fact that there were four candidates running, and that the returns from South-East Kootenay are not given in detail by polling divisions in the Provincial Elections, the number of votes polled cannot be given for the Ridings as re-adjusted.

RELIGIONS. Adventists . . 260 Agnostics 459 Anglicans (Church of England) 40,672 Atheists 83 6,506 Believers 16 Brahmanists 1 164 Buddhists 10,027 Carmelites , 3 Catholic Apostolic (Irvingites) .... 21 117 Christian Brethren 33 34 Christians 351 Christian Scientists . 94 Church of Christ 25 Confucians 4,804 Congregationalists 1,197 Deists 29 Disciples of Christ 99 Evangelicals 28 Faith Healers 4 Fire Worshippers 3 Free Church 4 Freethinkers , 297 Friends (Quakers) 117 German Reformed 3 Golden Rule 3 Gospel Brethren , 11 Greek Catholics 101 Infidels 68 Jews 560 Latter Day Saints (Mormons) 125 Liberal Christians 1 Lord's Religion 3 Lutherans 5,332 Me-mic-me 8 Mennonites 11 Methodists 25,021 Missioners 4 Mohammedans 6 New Church (Swedenborgian) 21 No Religion 1,605 Non-Sectarians 2 Orthodox 32 Pagans 4,556 Plymouth Brethren 68 Presbyterians 34,176 Protestants 844 Reformed Episcopalians 303 Reincarnationists 1 Roman Catholics 34,227 Salvation Army 570 Sceptics 148 Secularists 14 Silents 3 Socialists 21 Spiritualists 143 Theosophists 34 Titans 2 Unitarians 133 United Brethren (Moravians) 18 Universalists .' 48 Unspecified 4,902 Various sects 33 Zionites (Dowieites) 48

VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.