THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE

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MONTHLY PRECIPITATION (IN INCHES):! SHERBROOKE AND VILLE MARIE
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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

Sherbrooke


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