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In the chapter on Population a new section concerns yearly estimates of
the Provinûe's population. The estimates are baRed on fip;ul'es obtained from
municipal secretary-treasurers, The Bureau of Stati::;tics usns decennial Census
definitions in arder to remove any possibilüy of ambiguity and to establish
the de jure rather than the de facto population.
The chapter on Health and Social Welfare contains two retrospective tables
giving stat;istics on aid to the aged and blind from 1937 onwards. These tables
bave never appeared in the Year Book before.
Since 1950, crimina! statistics refel' to the civil rather than the judicial year.
Besides, the distinction between indictable and non-indictable otTences has
ceased to exist as far as statistics of juvenile delinqueney are concerned and
this has necessi tated a redistribu tian of the figures pl'eviously published.
The chaptel' relative ta the Survey of Production has been completely
revised as li result of several changns in methods of estimating. Duplication
has been etimin:1L(~d; "cw,tom and r<:pair" no 10nJ:l:(~r appcal' in the Survey; only
fir,rures on tltn Ilet value of production are given and gross value of production
figures have been dropped. Chapter IX contains the revised figures from 1938
to 1950; the figures for 1951 are shawn in an Appendix.
Lastly, it should be pointed out that, in the chapter on Agriculture, the
areas sown in field crops from 1941 ta 1951 have been rcvised and, in the chapter
on Forests, there i8 a new section concerning provincifd pa.rles,
Ali this is evidence of the numerous and extensive changes taking 'place
in the field of statistics: definitions as weil as classifications, methods of estimat-
ing, territorial distributions, etc. are changing. Consequently, the tasle of
editing the Year Book becomes more arduous from year to year. Mcssr8.
Lionel Laberge, M.S.S., and Maurice Rousseau, with whom the responsibility
now rests, have spared no effort to make the Year Book as complete ànd accurate
as pOf;~ible a source of information on everythini!; pertaining ta the Province of
Quehnr:. In working towal'd this objectivc, tlwy had the r.lof;cst co-operation
from the various divisions and sections of the Bureau of Statistics, as weil as
that of several other provincial and fedeml organizations and departments.
The text was translated into English by Mi~,,; Arline Généreux. The charta
werc draugh ted by the Division of Cartography of the Department of Trade
and Commerce.
Ta ail those who, in onc way 01' another, helped to prepare this volume,
l offer my sincere thanka.

J, C. McGEE,
Direc/or.

BUREAU OF STATISTICS,
Quebec, December 30, 1953.