CHANGING PROPORTIONS OF CANADIAN AND ELSEWHERE BORN 59 
TABLE No. 21.—PROPORTION OF POPULATION CANADIAN AND ELSEWHERE BORN, BY COUNTRY 
OF BIRTH. 1901. 1011. 1921. 
Country of Birth 
BL IN 
Dither Countries {including British)... .c.ovvvuennn.. 
British Isles, ............ 
British Possessions. ...... 
Burope. ...... 
Austria..... 
Selgium..... Cee 
Bulgaria..........coooioiiiiii 
Szechoslovakia ............. ..... 
Denmark............... 
Tinland....... woe gin 
TYBIOB rs soe sonia sty ssimasyn = ite G0 & 
Aalledn. . oie gy comes © a wan cows 
Jo: vo 
BEOBOO ce vnin inst ntnis ih vvnis 
doland.................... 
Jungery....... 
celand...... eee eee 
tay. .......... a. 48 YE Ha YE 
Jugo-Slavia..... A on gy 
METH wn viwcion v5 grams vs 2 
Polat ues os vans vo we sigs 
Roumania................... 
[TEL 
Sweden................ ............L 
Switzerland.......... 
Ukraine...... 
Others... .. 
IME 00 i's SRNR SR ESE gE Ye 
China........ 
fapan........ 
Syria... ooo... 
Turkey...... 
Jthers..... 
United States............... 
North Western Europe.................. 
South. Eastern and Central Eurone 
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ce 
P.c. of total population born in speci- 
fied country 
1921. 
p.c. 
1901. 
D.C. 
86-98 
14-02 | 
7-54 
0-20 
77-98 
22-02 
11-16 
0-41 
77-75 
22:25 
11:66 
0-45 
2:34 
0-53 
0-04 
0-02 
0-04 
0-15 
9.51 
0-01 
Do] 
0-11 
0-13 
2) 
3) 
4 
0-58 
0-19 
3.03 
5-62 
0-94 
0-11 
0-28 
0-02 
0-07 
0-15 
0:24 
0-4 
0-55 
9-04 
0-05 
0-15 
0-10 
0-48 
0-29 
5:23 
0-65 
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0-0 
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0-32 
0-04 
0-13 
0-04 
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0-39 
0.07 
0-44 
0-32 
3-09 
0-02 
0-01 
2-38 
1-05 
L286 
0-57 
0-37 
0-12 
0-04 
0-03 
4.21 
1-81 
3.74 
0-61 
0-42 
0-13 
0-04 
0-03 
¢.25 
1-46 
5-54 
2) Included with Austria. 
2) Included with Sweden. 
3) Included with Russia. 
(4) Included with Bulgaria. 
Tables 22 and 23 on p. 61 show the numbers of European foreign born in Canada in 
1901, 1911 and 1921, as far as possible, by country of birth and geographical and linguistic 
slassifications. It has been impossible to separate, for example, the Austrians from the 
Hungarians for 1901—and so with all cases where the numbers and percentages are omitted. 
There are several significant points brought out in this table. First, however, a word 
«8 required as to the meaning of percentage increases and decreases. Take for example the 
Belgians, In 1901-1911 the number of European born Belgians in Canada increased 249-78 
p.c.; that is, at an average rate of 25 p.c. per year over the 1901 total. The influx of Bel- 
zians was therefore enough to offset any emigration that occurred in the period, to neutralize 
the death rate of Belgian immigrants to Canada, and to show by the end of the decade two 
and a half times the number of Belgian born immigrants resident in the Dominion in 1901. 
[n the second ten years of the century the increase was only 66:47 p.c. During those years 
immigration was smaller, emigration was more marked and the mortality rate among the 
Belgian born was probably higher, owing to the higher average age of Belgian residents in 
Canada. The actual percentages shown are thus the result of three or more less independent 
factors which vary in importance from time to time and between one stock and another. 
There is a fourth consideration, however, which is necessary to explain a given percent 
age increase. A very large proportionate increase may be due not to any great volume of 
immigration so much as to its recency. Take for example the Greeks. In 1001 there were 
213 Canadian residents born in Greece; in 1911, 2,640--an increase of 2,327 in numbers but 
of 1,139-44 p.c. Between 1911 and 1921 the number of native Greeks in Canada increased