Population: 30.1 million
Life expectancy males/females: 75/81 years
Infant mortality rate: 6.2‰ Religions: Catholic 12,584,789; United Church 2,000,000;
Anglican 2,300,000; Jewish; Greek Orthodox; Lutheran; Presbyterian; Baptists; Muslims.
Independence: 1st July 1867 (from the U K)
GDP per capita: US $19,380

Spiritan Presence: (1732 first arrivals from Séminaire du Saint-Esprit.) Spiritans arrived in 1905; province since 1947; about 45 professed members; 2 appointed from Nigeria expected in 1998; 5 associate members; no one in formation.

In Canada, there is a concentration on youth ministry especially at Collège St-Alexandre where the headmaster is now a lay person and the Spiritan ministry in the school is principally in terms of chaplaincy. Centre In'Afu, a centre for spiritual animation of students and their teachers, also has a lay director as well as a community of three Spiritans. At Maison St-Denis some lay people are enabled to seek the spiritual sense of their life by living in community with a Spiritan and a lay associate. Another important ministry is that of chaplaincy to the psychiatric hospital Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine. The parish of St-Pascal Baylon is largely at the service of immigrants.