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.