| 21,428 | 440,572 | 459,574 | Halifax |
| New Brunswick | 27,985 | 321,233 | 331,120 | Fredericton |
| Manitoba | 73,732 | 62,260 | 255,211[1]| Winnipeg |
| British Columbia | 372,630 | 49,459 | 178,657 | Victoria |
| Prince Edward Island | 2,184 | 108,891 | 103,259 | Charlottetown |
| Saskatchewan | 250,650 | \ 25,515 | 91,460[1]| Regina |
| Alberta | 253,540 | / | 72,841[1]| Edmonton |
| | | | | |
| Districts-- | | | | |
| Keewatin | 516,571 | \ | 8,800 | . . |
| Yukon | 196,976 | | | 27,219 | Dawson City |
| Mackenzie | 562,182 | > 30,931 | 5,216 | . . |
| Ungava | 354,961 | | | 5,113 | . . |
| Franklin | 500,000 | / | | . . |
+------------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+---------------+
| The Dominion | 3,745,574[2]| 4,324,810 | 5,371,315 | Ottawa |
+------------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+---------------+

In 1867 the Dominion was formed by the union of the provinces of Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec (Lower Canada) and Ontario (Upper Canada).
In 1869 the North-west Territories were purchased from the Hudson's Bay
Company, from a corner of which Manitoba was carved in the next year. In
1871 British Columbia and in 1873 Prince Edward Island joined the
Dominion.

The islands and other districts within the Arctic circle became a
portion of the Dominion only in 1880, when all British possessions in
North America, excepting Newfoundland, with its dependency, the Labrador
coast, and the Bermuda islands, were annexed to Canada. West of the
province of Ontario, then inaccurately defined, the provinces of
Manitoba and British Columbia were the only organized divisions of the
western territory, but in 1882 the provisional districts of Assiniboia,
Athabasca, Alberta and Saskatchewan were formed, leaving the remainder
of the north-west as unorganized territories, a certain portion of the
north-east, called Keewatin, ha