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Preface / V. W. Bladen -- Canadian demography. -- Causes and consequences of the population increase / Thomas W.M. Cameron -- Le problème de la population au Canada / Pierre Dagenais -- La main-d'oeuvre canadienne / Guy Rocher -- Evolution de la composition ethnique et linguistique de la population canadienne / Jacques Henripin -- New Patterns in the birth rate / Nathan Keyfitz -- The growth of population in Canada / Arthur R.M. Lower -- Possibilities of colonization of northern Canada -- Introduction / Rene Pomerleau -- The rôle of mineral resources in the development and colonization of northern Canada / W. Keith Buck -- Possibilities of light and heat from atomic energy and other sources / E.W. Humphrys -- The living resources of northern Canada / M.J. Dunbar -- Man in the north / G. Malcolm Brown -- The future colonization of northern Canada / Trevor Lloyd

In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations

In 1961 the Royal Society annual session topic was an especially vital issue, the population explosion, and this volume, based on the papers given at the meeting, has much valuable information and many pertinent and provocative comments on this phenomenon particularly as it affects Canada