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TABLE 121.—ORIGIN OF PENITENTIARY POPULATION, 21 YEARS AND OVER (BOTH SEXES), 
1921. 
Origin 
Canada........ 
British........... RS SAR SN VE © 
TENTS cos crvsimnssinpe sama h i WERES 08 THINS NE 
LS ME A Ei [PR 
Bonhoh. .youirvvivans sections ves idei ds Conan s [. 
Zronoh. ciuiiriar irs itn anna eee —— 
AUSEIIBM. cout verte ciiiieecrieriinaneenn aan. wry 
Belgian..........ooooiiiniiinieininn vl erveeEe 
Chinese...... simaiions 45 # wR A Ee 
Czech... Ln 
Danish. ... PR 
Dutch.... - 
Finnish.... wnt SARE 
Jerman. ., wrens “3 HEF 
Greek. ... ¥ www i 
Hebrew........ vovvuan... I —— FRR BEERS 
Hungarian... Tad 
[eelandie........... 3 EAEERAR Bho mba 
Indian. ..... ees cen 
Hall, coerce vor wis sniniibine ia BE nanan » wr sew 
fapanese...... Hrs » wpe 
E+ J TU, we we Ewe 
Norwegial................ vw WN AW BENE RAE 
Polish.......... .. We RNETRE URNETAS RISER 40d 
Roumanian..... VERSE PN SUERTE HE 5 REREDAR efi at 
BARBI scopy wmmtinies 16 WERURRS EUIRIHSIEEL BL § 2 evens eas 
Serbo-Croatiall.......v.eenie tintin race trees 
Swedish... oii iii ieee irae mmm wy 
SWISS. teeter, 
TIBI oi vcopupnammns as fawns FREER Rh CITE Tams oon 
Various and unsnecified 
1) 
Total number 
in 
penitentiaries 
(21 years and 
over) 
1.801 
959 
536 
247 
165 
= 
(2) 
Total 
population 
(21 years 
and over) 
4 811.0031 
2,898,076 
1,497,337 
667,441 
706,516 
24,782 
!,168,387 
46,403 
11,041 
1,367 
74,183 
4,224 
11,545 
°°, 141 
1,364 
0,218 
3,659 
60, 695 
5,592 
8,757 
51,088 
33,480 
10,742 
10,613 
"6,479 
021 
“49 
“65 
26 
79 
0g 
88 
7 
3 
{3) 
Number per 
100,000 of 
rorresponding 
group 
20 
33 
36 
"3 
1 
3 
c 
z 
2 
4 
Ey) 
18° 
50 
1 
2 
5 
86 
1 Does ‘not include Yukon and Northwest Territories. Includes persons of unstated age. 
When the European stocks are arranged by geographical and linguistic groups as in 
Table 122, the numbers are more representative and ihe rates more reliable. The North 
Western European group of foreign stocks had 21 per 100,000 21 years of age and over in 
penitentiaries in 1921, while the South, Eastern and Central group showed a figure of 138— 
a proportion nearly seven times greater than that for the North Western Europeans. The 
Latin and Greek stocks had a proportion some ten to twelve times greater than that for 
the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples, and the Slavie stocks a proportion four to six times 
greater. Were it not for the Ukrainians, who form a very considerable proportion of the 
Slavic population in Canada, the rate for the latter group would have been higher than 
actually appears. 
So much for the crude data and their practical bearing on the problem of law enforce- 
ment in the various ‘origin’ groups in Canada. 
Now these differences are by no means entirely due to birthplace or age and sex 
distribution. It becomes apparent that a genuine factor of origin and heredity is involved, 
when one compares the groups in the light of previous sections of this study. The Slavie 
stocks, for instance, showed a considerably smaller proportion 21 years of age and over 
than the Scandinavians, as well as a much smaller surplus of males. Yet in spite of an 
age and sex distribution less favourable to crime than that of the Scandinavian peoples, 
the rate in penitentiaries for the Slavic group was four and a half times greater. The fact 
that the proportion born on this continent was some 7 p.c. smaller for the Slavs than for 
the Scandinavians offsets in some measure the difference on the score of age and sex 
distribution, but is certainly not adequate to account for the striking spread in the propor- 
tions in penitentiaries. It would seem that the difference is mainly due to origin and 
heredity. The figure for the Latin and Greek group may be unduly high because of some- 
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