A by-the-numbers look at the Canada that went to war 100 years ago when rent was cheap, phones were a novelty and income tax didn't exist.

Read more from our look back at the First World War at tgam.ca/WWI.

DEMOGRAPHICS GROWING UP – AND WEST Less than a decade after Alberta and Saskatchewan had become provinces, the westward push was on in earnest. Winnipeg had become Canada's third largest city just before the war – and just as immigration was making its true mark on the West. Today, Calgary's population is more than 25 times what it was in 1914, making it third in the nation, while Edmonton (more than 30 times larger) ranks fifth. And Winnipeg? Down to seventh, behind Mississauga, which didn't even exist 100 years ago.