CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA.

This articles discusses sociological evolution in Canada. The latest resources of modern civilisation are found close beside the forest primeval and the untilled prairie. The electric tramway runs out into the forest which is just cleared: in the shack built of rough logs, still surrounded by huge tree-stumps which have not been burnt, there are the electric light and the telephone. There are some facts and figures which must first be stated in order that the magnitude of the social evolution may be realised and its future possibilities recognised. The distribution of the population in the ten provinces, and the increase in each case in ten years, gives evidence of where the evolution is going on most rapidly. One may at least raise the question whether this concentration in one city is a desirable feature of the social evolution. It is the opinion of those who know their resources and possibilities that these provinces are being unduly neglected by immigrants, who are nearly all pushing westwards. Industry and commerce must depend on the development of natural resources in filed, forest, mine, or fishery; and one may be doubtful whether the proportion of the middlemen is not too great, whether the new society is not imitating too closely the older for its best development.