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SUMMARY ON ORIGIN AND BIRTHPLACE 
URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION 
(1) An analysis of the rural and urban distribution of the population by origins in 
Canada reveals several significant facts. Approximately one-quarter of the population 
of Canada is resident in cities of 25000 and over. The Hebrews show a proportion of 
84:06 pec. a percentage three times as large as that for the British. The Greeks with 
64-20 p.c., the Italians with 47-92 p.c., the Chinese with 44-87 p.c., and the Negroes with 
35-97 p.c., also show an unusual tendency to congregate in large centres. The British with 
28-17 p.c. in such cities are slightly more urban than the total population, and the French 
with a percentage of 22-45 slightly less. With the exception of the Poles, the Slavs show 
much smaller proportions in cities 253,000 and over than the population as a whole, and 
those of Germanic and Scandinavian origin are also among the least urban of the peoples 
in Canada. The differences are very great, the proportions in large cities ranging all the 
way from 2-66 p.c. for the Ukminians to 84:06 pe. for the Hebrews. 
(2) Of the immigrants, those from Asia, from the British Isles and from Latin and Greek 
countries were domiciled in incorporated cities, towns and villages of all sizes to an extent 
far greater than those born in Slavie, Germanic and Scandinavian countries. (See Chart 7.) 
(3) A distinction between the behaviour of the immigrants in the east and west is 
interesting. Those from South, East and Central Europe resident in the Eastern provinces 
are more urban than the total population in those provinces, but those in the West are 
somewhat less urban than the population as a whole. Similarly, immigrants from the 
United States tend to settle in the cities, especially in Ontario and Quebec, but in Saskat- 
chewan and Alberta they take up rural residence. Both in the East and West, the North 
Western Europeans are more rural than the populations of the respective provinces in which 
they have settled. 
There is a marked tendency to segregation among the stocks which congregate in large 
cities and among certain very rural peoples; this materially impedes the process of 
assimilation. 
CHART VII 
PERCENTAGES or IMMIGRANTS From SPECIFIED COUNTRIES or 
BIRTH, DOMICILED in URBAN AREAS, 1921 
Asia 
BritisH lees 
Larin ano Greer Countries 
S. Eastern avo Cent. Europe 
Suaviec Countries 
Unrreo States 
Gervanic Countries 
N.WezreanEurore 
Scanpinaian Countries 
0 
10 
20% 
0 
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y 
Hoh: 
50 20 %