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was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was June 3, 1986. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 25,309,331. This was a 4.0% increase over the 1981 census of 24,343,181.
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Manitoba
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