[Department of Agriculture | Département de l'agriculture]
Census of Manitoba: 1885-6 ; Recensement de Manitoba
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, [Department of Agriculture: Département de l'agriculture]; Maclean, Roger & Co. 1887. First Edition, First Printing. Leather Bound. pp. xxi, 217. Royal 8vo. measuring 6.5" x 9.5". Bound in 3/4 tan leather over pebbled black cloth, gilt rules and lettering over maroon spine labels. Rich with many charts, tables, etc. Light rubbing to boards, some scuffing to the leather extremities, else, very good. Contents remarkbly well-preserved with bright, clean, and unmarked pages. Scarce in commerce in this binding, state, and condition. Provides a rich statistical overview of the Province of Manitoba a mere five years following its entry into Confederation with details relating to: "Religions of the People", "Origins of the People", Numbers of "Half-Breeds or Metis", "Ages of the People", "Ages of the Married", "Ages of the Widowed", "Ages and Numbers of the Unsound of Mind", "Going to School - Deaf and Dumb", "Statement of the Number of Churches, and of Benevolent, Educational and Penal Establishments", and much else. See Peel Citation #1585. Very Good .
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Keywords: canadian history; government; census; statistics; western canadiana history; prairie; western canada