The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . nd;, and are quite willing to remain a partof the British Empire. The English-speaking popula-tion is now in a large majority, only about 1,650,000being of French extraction out of more than sevenmillions of inhabitants. The Pied Indians are about120,000. 7. Newfoundland.—Newfoundland is a very largeisland (the twelfth largest in the world) off the coastof Canada. It first became part of the Empire in1583, and some day it will, no doubt, join theDominion as a Province. At present it is an inde-pendent, self-governing colony
The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . nd;, and are quite willing to remain a partof the British Empire. The English-speaking popula-tion is now in a large majority, only about 1,650,000being of French extraction out of more than sevenmillions of inhabitants. The Pied Indians are about120,000. 7. Newfoundland.—Newfoundland is a very largeisland (the twelfth largest in the world) off the coastof Canada. It first became part of the Empire in1583, and some day it will, no doubt, join theDominion as a Province. At present it is an inde-pendent, self-governing colony, with a Governor anda Parliament, consisting of a Legislative Council ofnot more than twenty paid members, appointed forlife, and a House of Assembly of 36 paid memberselected by the people. Its area is 42,000 squaremiles, and the estimated population in 1910 was237,531. The,chief industry of the colony is thecod-fishery in summer, and the seal-fishery in inhabitants are either fisliermen or farmers, butcoal and iron mines are being developed, and also. 152 THE BRITISH EMPIRE chap, v forestry with paper-making from the cUmate is healthy, but wet and often on Newfoundland is Labrador, the mosteasterly part of the American continent, with anarea of 120,000 square miles and a populationestimated in 1910 at 4076. Chapter VIAustralia 1. Australia. — The next great self-governingdivision of the British Empire is Australia. Australiaitself is the island continent on the opposite side ofthe globe to England and south-east of India, and isdivided into five colonies—New South Wales, Victoria,South Australia, Queensland, and Western these is included in the federation of coloniesknown as the Commonwealth of Australia, the adjacentisland colony of Tasmania, which used to be calledVan Diemens Land, to the south of the thinly-populated Northern Territory used to beadministered by the Government of South Australia,but
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