Romanism’s Growth in Canada
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Independent gives the following interesting, but at the same time alarming, facts relative to the growth of Romanism in Canada: “In the year 1760 French Canada passed by conquest into the control of the British. The population was estimated at 70,000. Now it is one million and a half. Of the present population 200,000 are Protestants, the remainder belong to the Catholic Church, and all these are French, except 100,000 chiefly Irish. The increase of the French over the English threatens the extinction of the latter at no distant day in the Province of Quebec and eastern portion of Ontario. Hence, should this same rate of French increase continue, and Rome maintain her influence over them, her number will grow year by year, till by another century it would reach considerably more than the present population of the whole dominion.”