It was a hard beginning, but it was a rebirth to a new life. They are now among the nation builders of the West. But it would be a mistake to conclude that Canada's nation builders consisted entirely of poor people. The race movement has not been a leaderless mob. Princes, nobles, adventurers, soldiers of fortune, were the pathfinders who blazed the trail to Canada. Glory, pure and simple, was the aim that lured the first comers across the trackless seas. Adventurous young aristocrats, members of the Old Order, led the first nation builders to America, and, all unconscious of destiny, laid the foundations of the New Order. The story of their adventures and work is the history of Canada. It is a new experience in the world's history, this race movement that has built up the United States and is now building up Canada. Other great race movements have been a tearing down of high places, the upward scramble of one class on the {xiv} backs of the deposed class. Instead of leveling down, Canada's nation building is leveling up. This, then, is the empire--the size of all the nations in Europe, bigger than Napoleon's wildest dreams of conquest--to which Canada has awakened.[1] [1]COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF AREAS OF CANADA AND EUROPE Canada . . 3,750,000 square miles Europe . . 3,797,410 square miles Maritime Provinces Square Miles Square Miles Nova Scotia . . . . . 20,600 England . . . . . 50,867 Prince Edward Island 2,000 Germany . . . . . 208,830 New Brunswick . . . . 28,200 France . . . . . 204,000 ------ Italy . . . . . . 110,000 50,800 Spain . . . . . . 197,000 Quebec . . . . . . . . 347,350 Austria and Hungary 241,000 Ontario . . . . . . . . 222,000 Russia in Europe 2,000,000 Manitoba Saskatchewan 204,000 Alberta . . . . . . . . 350,000 British Columbia . . . 383,000 Unorganized Territory of Keewatin . . . . . . 756,000 Yukon . . . . . . . . 200,000 MacKenzie River and Ungava . . . . . . 1,000,000 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF POPULATION IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES United States Canada In 1800 . . . 5,000,000 In 1881 . . . 4,300,000 " 1810 . . . 7,000,000 " 1891 . . . 5,000,000 " 1820 . . . 9,600,000 " 1901 . . . 5,500,000 " 1830 . . . 12,800,000 " 1906 . . . 6,500,000 It will be noticed that for twenty years Canada's population becomes almost stagnant. The reason for this will be found as the story of Canada is related. If she keeps up the increase at the pace she has now set, or at the rate the United States' population went ahead during the same period of industrial development, the results can be forecast from the following table: