THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 
A 
MONTHLY PRECIPITATION (IN INCHES):! SHERBROOKE AND VILLE MARIE 
Ville Marie 
Y1921 1 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 
Months 
January....... 
February....... 
March..... ....! 
April. ......... 
May...........! 
June.......... 
Tuly.......oo. 
August......... 
September... ... 
October. ....... 
November... .. 
December. 
1-60! 1.92 1 2.00 | 3.08 1 4.03 
0-61"! 0.60 
0.75 | 3.00 
1.41 | 2.53 
| 1.58 
0-651 2.70 | 1.30 
1.50 1.53 
1.09 
3.31 
3.21 
3.18 
1.40 
2.45 
1.42 
‘2.88 
9.20! 1.15 1 0.60 
1.321 2.80 12-38 11.38" 
l 2.15. 2.79 1-231 1.99 
3.03 
1.04 
| 3.46 | 3.50" 3.18 | 
1.31 
2.31 1 4.07 
1.05! 1.731 2.93 
9.49 
2.80 ! 0.86 
2.38 
2.40 | 2.23 
2.46 | 5.711 3.75 1 3.92 
2.10 1 1.27 2.04 7.311 6.57 4.68 
3.55 | 2.420 3.47 1 0.831 3.73 2.77 | 4.77 
3.57 | 1.39 1 3.01 | 3.64 | 3.41 12.78 2.15 1 0.78 | 2.27 
nao] 1.38" 2.41 1 2.10 | 2.58 | 3.84 | 0.50 
9.141 3.76 
1.87 
5.08 
1.24 
1.04 
1 Snow is reduced to rain in the total, this is 1/10 of its height. 
DURATION OF SUNSHINE (HOURS) 
1921......... 
1922.............. 
1923............. 
1924... 
1028 
Montreal 
2,008 
2,040 
1,738 
1,855 
1636 
Duebec 
1,832 
1,864 
1,862 
1,817 
1.616 
Sher- 
brooke 
1,797 
1,909 
1,877 
1,846 
1 690 
POPULATION 
French Canadians Predominate —The population of the province 
of Quebec, as given in the census of 1921, was 2,361,199. Of this, French 
Canadians constitute 80 per cent. The average percentage of increase in 
population of Quebec since 1900 has been 20 per cent. In many districts 
the population is almost exclusively French Canadian. The Eastern 
Townships were originally settled by United Empire Loyalists and other 
English-speaking people, and although there are proportionately more 
English-speaking neople in this district to-dav than elsewhere in the