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ORIGINS OF THE POPULATION OF CANADA

on a strict quota system, the pressure of the surplus European population, which would have
tound its way there in the past, will be transferred in large measure to Canada. Just how
significant this will be is impossible to foresee, yet it will doubtless operate to keep the rates
of increase of the foreign stocks in Canada from dropping to anything like the extent that
otherwise would occur.
Indeed, there is good reason for the belief that though the diversity in rates of growth
may not be so large again, the natural trend of unrestricted immigration would materially
shift the balance of the stocks in our population in a few years. The cumulative effect of
even a small differential rate is comparatively rapid, and even if the rate of growth of European
 stocks were reduced to a quarter of that for the decade 1901 to 1911, it would still be
sufficiently higher than the percentage increases for either the French or British to overtake
shese stocks numerically in the long run, Further, there is no probability that any such
radical reduction in the growth of European stocks will take place in the near future.
This raises a fourth point. If the rates of increase for the first and second decades are
compared, in all except five cases a lower figure appears in 1911-1921. These five are the
Bulgarian and Roumanian groups, the Greeks, the Swiss, the Negroes and the Indians. In
the first three cases, the rate of increase was positive, but more rapid in the latter decade.
[n the two latter cases an actual numerical decline was changed to a moderate growth. The
merease in the first group is accounted for by extensive immigration in the first half of the
decade, as compared with the previous ten-year period. For example, only one Bulgarian
immigrant arrived in Canada in 1901, 40 in 1902, 5 in 1903, etc., but 4,616 came to Canada in
the fiscal year 1912-13. The Greeks show the greatest proportionate increase in rate ; the
‘nerease for the Swiss is slight. Yet while declining percentage increase was universal with
shese minor exceptions, all but a very few stocks increased much more rapidly than either
the British or French.

TABLE 12—NUMBER OF VARIOUS STOCKS IN CANADA 1901, 1911, 1921, AND PERCENTAGE
INCREASES FOR DECADES, 1901 TO 1911 AND 1911 TO 1921,

Stocks

1901

Number
1911

1921

P.c. increase
1901-1911 1 1911-1921

24-94
39-682
&5-47
17-61
64-06
19-36
34:69
110-92
159-31
38:70
59-71
66-75
47-03
60-05
55-63
93-77
21-65
52:80
42-53
-56-60
75-90
113-45
5-04
8-38
—64-00
—85-56
21:95
4 Includes: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish.
2 Includes: Austrian, German, Bukovinian, Dutch, Galician, Hungarian, Russian, Ruthenian, Bohemian, Moravian,
Serbo-Croatian, Lithuanian, Lettish, Ukrainian, Laplander.
3 Includes: Algerian, Arabian, Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilian, Egyptian, Eskimo, Hawaiian, Haytian, Jamaican,
Korean, Malayan, Maltese, Maori, Mexican, Persian, Peruvian, Philippino, Portuguese, and Spanish,
1 Includes: 34,481 ‘‘half-breeds’’.

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Bulgarian and Roumanian..........................
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JET
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20l8h.
Scandinavian L.................... i
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Other European 2..,
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Chinese.......c.oovvivuiineennn. oo. vu sen
ind. .oenniiiii “
Japanese.................oiiiiiiii... 5
Turkish................... vi
Syrian... Erdem
Armenian............... eee
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NOPIO ys sos inins 550504 5 nemmsns nnmmms somtmmn woes v sons
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Unspecified... ..........cooiiiiiiiiiii iii,
Total...........

3,063,195
1,260,899
988,721
800,154
13,421
+, 649,371
456, 647
2,00
2
29;
16,131
10,834
6,285
31,042
3,865
182,349
23,731
17,312
1,738
1,681
127, 9414
17,437
1,454
31,5639
5,871,815 |

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£88150 2.545, 496
1,050,382 1,107,817
997,880 1173, 637
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2,054,800 2,452,751
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