52 DISTRIBUTION OF STOCKS BY LENGTH OF RESIDENCE 
Owing to changes in national boundaries, referred to above, and the consequent 
difficulties of getting separate statistics on countries of birth corresponding to present 
political divisions, only a very small proportion of the Slavs appearing in earlier census 
snumerations could be allocated to their present national groups. It was thus considered 
impracticable to attempt a Slavic classification. 
Finally, turning to Table 24, giving a summary by specified groups of countries of birth, 
several general points of comparison are worthy of emphasis. . 
First, between 1901 and 1911 the percentage increase of those bom in South, Eastern 
and Central Europe was twice as great as that for the group of nations of the north and 
western parts of the continent. The percentage increases for both the Slavie and Latin 
and Greek groups were marked and made a very high total increase for the South, Eastern 
and Central European born. While the rate of increase of the foreign born Scandinavians 
in that decade was almost twice as great as that for North Western Europeans as a whole, 
the addition to the foreign born Germanic people in Canada was only a little more than 
half the proportion for the North Western Europeans. The United States born increased 
about as rapidly as the North Western Europeans in the first ten years of the century. 
In the second decade the rates of growth show heavy declines. The United States born 
registered an advance of 23-16 p.c.; the South, Central, and Eastern’ European showed 
a 15-41 pec. increase, and the Latins and Greeks and Scandinavians came next in order 
with increases of 6:46 and 5-81 p.c., respectively. Mention has been made of the actual 
decline in the numbers of the North Western European and Germanic groups in this period. 
In conclusion, a striking comparison is presented by referring these percentage changes 
in foreign born to the rate of population growth in the country as a whole. Between 1901 
and 1911 the number of foreign born Latins and Greeks resident in Canada increased over 
8 times as rapidly as the total population; the foreign born South, Eastern and Central 
Europeans and the foreign born Scandinavians 7 times as rapidly, the North Western 
European and United States born at nearly four times the rate, while those born in Germanic 
and Asiatic countries showed over twice the percentage increase. In the decade 1911-1921 
the situation was entirely changed. Only the increase in the United States and Asiatic 
born was as great as the increase in the population as a whole. In many cases the number 
foreign born actually deélined. 
TABLE 24—SUMMARY TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE INCREASE OF THE IMMIGRANT 
Potion IN CANADA, BY SPECIFIED NATIVITY GROUPS, FOR THE DECADES 1901-1911 
Country of birth 
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South, Bastern and Central BuroDe...........ovuuviiiirieiiieianiiaiiaeir eae arian sas 
Scandinavian COURries. .......vvuuenier iii iia earenaaes oon 3 CRATE 7 
Fermanic Countries ........c.ocooueens DP 
Latin and Greek Countries. ..... 
P.c. increase by decades. 
1601-1911 | 1911-1921 
p.c. p.c. 
34-17" 21-95 
27.47 
35-95 
13-43 
30-99 
23-16 
-1-39 
15-41 
5-81 
-13-61 
6:46 
PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF BIRTH OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS FROM 
CONTINENTAL EUROPE 
Table 25 shows those countries which the largest number of European born residents of 
Canada in 1921 reported as their respective countries of birth. The Russians were the 
most numerous of those reporting at the census as having come to Canada before 1901. 
Indeed, for every period except the years 1919 and 1920, Russia heads the list. This fact 
seems to indicate that during the last generation Russia has sent a larger number of 
permanent settlers to Canada than any other Furopean continental country. Austria is 
well up among the first seven countries until the period of the war, and by 1921 reappears