SURPLUS OF MALES OF DIFFERENT BIRTHPLACES 73 
Table 34 presents a significant summary. The immigrants from the United States, con- 
sisting mainly of British, French, Scandinavian and Germanic stocks and settling to a great 
extent in rural areas, show the nearest approximation to equality in the numbers of males 
and females. The British born, with 14 p.c. surplus males, rank next. While the majority 
of these locate in urban communities!, on the whole they are permanent settlers intending to 
make their homes in this country and to assume the responsibilities and duties of citizen- 
ship. The Germanic and Slavic countries send larger proportions of females than does any 
other foreign group, the United States excepted. Among the immigrants from these coun- 
tries there was a surplus of only about 35 p.c. males. ‘Of the Europeans, the immigrants from 
the Scandinavian and Latin and Greek countries are in a class more or less by themselves, 
with 75 p.c. to 88 p.c. surplus males among the foreign born in Canada. As has been pointed 
out already, Asiatic immigration is unique in the overwhelming preponderance of males.2 
TABLE 34—SUMMARY TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF MALES AND FEMALES AND PERCENT- 
AGE SURPLUS OF MALES FOR IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA, BY SPECIFIED GROUPS OF 
COUNTRIES OF BIRTH. 1921 
Total Immigrants......... wae 
British born.................. V3 SHERENE SORE 
Foreign born...............uuu. we we 6 GHD Shen dh Ea 
DD ost BOS sas an J 
South, Eastern and Central FUuTOpe. ..u..evrviire: vernirins cites ieiiirnienvanns 
United States........ooovevi ovvieiiiinnainn eerie 
SCANAINAVIAN. .. .\ ttt t eit eee e eerie aaa eae aaas 
GEIINATIC. . vivian einen ee ee eerie, 
Latin and Greek................. § CEPEEE aw 
Slavic... . 
Agia 
Per cent 
Males 
5.5" 
53 2¢ 
58-3. 
50-02 
50-40 
RD. EF! 
43-6 
b7-0* 
652° 
57-9. 
20.0) 
Per cent 
Females 
44.44 
46-78 
41-65 
39-97 
40-60 
47-48 
36-39 
42-98 
34-68 
42-08 
311.08 
Percent- 
age 
Surplus 
of Males 
i 
. 
Earlier in this section the statement was made that were the adult population exam- 
ined separately, the proportions of surplus males would be greater than appear in the data 
given for the total population of all ages. Such was the expectation because of the ten- 
dency for the numbers of the sexes to be more or less equal among children. That such is 
actually the case is shown for the foreign born in Table 35. Column 1 gives the percent- 
ages of surplus males in the total foreign born population by country of birth and column 
2 gives the data for the adult population in each case. Both of the percentages for the 
Icelanders are exceptional and no explanation is offered, as the numbers of the sexes are so 
nearly equal among the adults as well as the children, and the differences in the percentages 
so insignificant that the case would seem to be unimportant. The significant point in the 
table is that for every other country of birth the surplus of males is greater in the adult 
population. In some cases it is very much greater. 
Similarly, when the proportions of surplus males are computed for the adult population 
of the several origins (Table 36), they are seen to be in excess of the percentages for all 
ages given in Tables 29, 30 and 81. These two tables show that the significant differences 
in sex distribution were minimized rather than overstated in the earlier part of this chapter. 
Further use will be made of the data in the subsequent discussion of intermarriage and 
fertility. etn. 
1 8ee Table 51, p. 105. 
2 The above remarks refer to grouns of countries as such; individual exceptions within the groups have 
heen previously noted.