PROPORTION OF SPECIFIED STOCKS IN VARIOUS PROVINCES 87 
difficult to over-emphasize the significance of these facts. In the middle western provinces, 
the relative proportion of foreign stocks is from three to thirty times greater than in 
other parts of the Dominion, and on the average perhaps four times greater than in 
the East as a whole. The structure of the population in the Prairie Provinces is thus 
entirely different from that in Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. Reference will be 
made below to the consequences of this fact. 
The Asiatics form a far larger proportion in the population of British Columbia, where 
the Orient and Occident meet, than in any other province. The percentage is ten times 
greater than in Alberta, which stands second, and the proportions generally decline in 
passing eastward. 
The significance of these figures may be brought out more clearly by arranging the 
provinces in rank according to the proportion of British, French, Other European and Asiatie 
stocks in their populations in 1921:— 
Province 
Rank 
Province 
Rank 
British Origin— 
Prince Edward Island..........ooovevenneennnn 
NOVA SCOR. cere vier eirairnancaraaennanss 
ORIARIG cues womans va sms vs wom vn win cas 
British Columbia................... Cees 
New Brunswick........ ET soe 
Alberta............. £ _— 
Manitoba.........oovuinnnn. we wind 6 GEES 
Saskatchewan. .....ooooiiiiii iii 
CIBIIBC «wisi pen vin scenes win simcnmcs wn smmonss wir +20 <idih 
Other Europeen Origin— 
SaskatcheWah....oovviiininiiiirii renee 
Manitoba. cov orunevinriiiiiiae ieee 
ALDErbB. eevee eran eae oe ene 
Ontario. .....o.ovveinnnnnn.. we 
British Columbia...............coceiiiiiian 
Nova Scotia. ..eeuiinniniiiiiiiirinnen ene 
QUEDEE... oo vrnvs ix sums £3 cFwwe su awn wa ve mw 
New Brunswick. ........cooeuiiiuiraennsnnes 
Prince Fdward Ialand . ise enaaans 
French Origin— 
QUEBEC... cvviiirinie canneries 
New Brunswick.............. Swe os 
Prince Edward Island wesnamismn wt sey 
Nova Scotia........- eas 
Ontario............ aa 
Manitoba............ eas 
QaskatCheWaN. .ovvvverr creer onan 
Alberta............o00. - on wae 
British Columbia... - 
Asiatic Origin— 
British Columbig............. er HHRAS 8 
AYDOTUR. 0 cris smn ens on 5 xwms vo vio sims sn smtims x # 
SaskatcheWan. .ooooaviiniiiins carnerinuiennen: 
ONEATIO even ewsnnvevnnsreuirocnenonarssuacn: 
MANIEODB . vrei enrneerneraarnenenc ior ennans 
NOVA SCO. v nv eeirivenranrrierneraennionns 
QUEBEC... 1 ver ernie rnin 
New Brunswick,......... © mene CrEERES 
Prince Edward Island...... 
9 
The material in Table 42A is presented also in Charts 23, 24, 25 and 26. 
Table 42B shows the same data as presented in the previous table with the percentages 
of each origin grouped by years. The material is so arranged that the decennial increases 
or decreases in the proportions of the several stocks are easily seen. The table makes 
possible a comparison between the percentage of each origin in the years 1901-1911-1921. 
In Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia the proportion of British origin remained 
about the same over the period. There were slight decreases in New Brunswick, Quebec, 
Ontario and Manitoba, and significant increases in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British 
Columbia. . 
These differences may be explained in terms of the relative influx of British and 
foreign immigration, emigration, movement of population between provinces, different rates 
of natural increase of the British and non-British stocks and the stationary character of 
the native Indian population. The relative importance of these influences varies. For 
instance, in New Brunswick the more rapid increase of the French both by immigration 
and natural increase is of major importance; in Quebec the paucity of British immigration 
coupled with a high rate of natural increase among the native population; in Ontario, 
foreign immigration and the movement of French from the adjacent province of Quebec; and 
in Manitoba, foreign immigration coupled with the higher rate of natural increase among 
the foreign stocks in that province. The latter point is especially important in Manitoba, 
where such large proportions of the population are of foreign origin. The increases in the 
proportions of British stock in the three provinces west of Manitoba are due partly to heavy 
immigration of British from the United States and, in the case of British Columbia, 
from Great Britain. Further, in the West the Indian population was of very considerable 
dimensions in 1901. For example, in Saskatchewan it constituted nearly 20 pe. of the 
population in 1901, but in 1921 only 2 p.c. The existence of this group, which is prac- 
tically stationary in numbers, would in itse make for percentage increases in the other 
growing stocks and cannot be neglected among the influences accounting for the relative 
morense of the British in the three western provinces.