Here are a few statistics from the Anglican Church of Canada from 1932 to 1997. The statistics are extremely imprecise for a number of reasons, but the general trends portrayed are probably reliable.
More recent statistics are hard to find. The article linked here gives some reasons why.
Some context for current statistics of religious affiliation is given at the
Statistics
Canada website. Some comparative
data are given by this private website, but I haven't double-checked its
accuracy.
1. "Stipendiary parish clergy" are full-time salaried clergy serving parishes. Thus the number does not include part-time
clergy, retired clergy, and clergy in non-parish settings.
2. "Total on parish rolls" cumulates diocesan totals, which in turn cumulate parish totals. Parish totals are submitted
annually by the incumbents of parishes. The Anglican Church of Canada does not define church membership as such, and
therefore different clergy may interpret "total on parish rolls" in very different ways. More recently clergy have been asked
to enumerate "number of identifiable givers," which is a more precise category.
Stipendiary parish clergy | Total on parish rolls | Identifiable givers | |
1932-36 | 1404 | 861,110 | |
1937-41 | 1372 | 860,998 | |
1942-46 | 1352 | 872,452 | |
1947-51 | 1374 | 1,024,348 | |
1952-56 | 1541 | 1,198,208 | |
1957-61 | 1711 | 1,320,649 | |
1962-66 | 1810 | 1,347,113 | |
1977 | 997,371 | 246,679 | |
1987 | 1678 | 808,220 | 252,151 |
1997 | 1546 | 717,708 |
228,413 |
2000 | 650,997 |
3. For 1932-1966 this category is called "total parish contributions for all purposes", for 1977-1987 "total parish income".
4. For 1932-1966 this category is called "total value of all property"; for 1987 there is "parish buildings valuation" and
"diocesan buildings population" which have here been combined. "Property" is a more inclusive term than "buildings" and
the categories may therefore not be entirely comparable. However, it appears that the former term "property" was used to
mean buildings, since the intent appears to have been to show the congruity of insurance coverage.
5. The deflator, based on Statistics Canada (formerly Dominion Bureau of Statistics)
data, uses 1935-39=100. It means that in 1932-1936 $93 would have bought what
in 1987 would have required $1118. This is a very rough-and-ready guide, principally
since many things which consumers bought in 1987 did not exist in 1932, or were
of different quality.
Total parish income | Value of property |
Deflator 1933-7=100 |
Total parish income deflated | Value of property deflated | |
1932-36 | 5,036,226 | 47,177,082 | 93 | 5,415,296 | 50,728,045 |
1937-41 | 5,070,885 | 48,167,916 | 107 | 4,739,144 | 45,016,743 |
1942-46 | 6,368,884 | 50,916,940 | 130 | 4,899,141 | 39,166,876 |
1947-51 | 10,442,644 | 76,415,171 | 194 | 5,382,806 | 39,389,263 |
1952-56 | 18,199,243 | 131,971,298 | 230 | 7,912,714 | 90,728,655 |
1957-61 | 30,670,091 | 208,675,908 | 249 | 12,317,305 | 83,805,585 |
1962-66 | 34,705,632 | 273,825,402 | 270 | 12,853,937 | 101,416,815 |
1977 | |||||
1987 | 155,355,880 | 1,172,781,000 | 1118 | 13,895,874 | 104,899,910 |
1997 | 214,602,196 | 1476 | 14,539,444 |
Statistic for members on parish rolls for 2000 is taken from this media factsheet, which gives general information on the Anglican Church of Canada.
For the total population of Canada at each census since 1851, see the Statscan webpage linked.