Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1794974814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182133

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Acland

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 224 S.; Diagramme

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The urban and rural distribution of the population of various stocks in Cananda

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114 URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION OF VARIOUS STOCKS urban. The same applies to the Negroes, with almost 36 p.c. of their population in the large cities. While the British, Polish and Roumanian peoples show proportions higher than the population as a whole, the differences are not of great magnitude. These figures throw a rather interesting light on the experience of many of the large cities in the United States and certain of the larger cities in Canada. Those stocks which gravitate to the larger centres to en abnormal extent are very often found in quarters or wards. There are Jewish sections, Italian sections, Chinese sections and Negro sections in a great many of the larger cities on this continent. One does not hear of a Scandinavian quarter or of a Dutch or German section of a city nearly so frequently. Segregation of particular stocks has grave social and political consequences wherever it occurs, and this tendency of certain foreign stocks to concentrate in the large cities of ‘Canada is significant rom the standpoint of assimilation. TABLE 56.—PER CENT OF SPECIFIED ORIGINS IN CITIES OF 25,000 AND OVER IN CANADA, 1921. NWorke.—The percentage of the total population in such cities was 25-42, Alphabetic arrangement Origins ' Po. BPD. covivns suniis testis sisi 6 2 Fremch........ocovivviviiine © eine. LUE T:) OSU Belgian. oo oveiniiiie eee ChINESE.....cuiiai ieee aes SOS euyunaee sein Breanes £6 Sr ape GATES dinnish....... . eens Greek......... . eee. en PLEIMOT cans smininy on wmv me Aangorii, ions wn srewies vse Sse welandic......... ., hh FAA 0 4 fo dian. o.oo... FO .. talian........ Cees . [apanese......... PN . Negro......... - Norwegian. ... we Zolish.......... p Roumanian..... 2 Russian......... Serbo-Croatian... on Swedish............ .. SWiss.....ouiiiiinas wore Be Se BEEN, os oo srvvi on sowmisms & gig 4 S095 £0 S0TY BUONO, vo svunininy vo vuons 4 suess 6 Trine FIANEINg. Cuunuins 2000005 Ea aN be 5 S05 ne miner d Ruthenian. .....ooovvieiiiiiiiiiannnin nnn, Ukrainian. ..ooovvieieiiniiaiiiinaens Unspecified... ..........ocoiiiiiiiniiii Various. .. ove 26-17 9-48 2.94 7-20 4-87 0-80 7-82 1-84 r.ge @. 2 2.€ Le ae Le 24. Kn Arrangement according to rank Origins ' Pe. | Rank Hebrew........cooooviiiiiiiiiiin Greek.....oouvei iin Chinese.............oceveen.. a ByrItiovs covinan wo mnmmunn spicy #4 NOBID.conss i, uns 4 Prawn © 4 ya Various. vans vo iain © i . Unspecified................ . Japanese............. y British............... ” . 1 N———— ‘ doumanian.................. 4 Serbo-Croatian. .....c.cooovinnvnen. PEON 10 55500 vr dr rockon BE BRA 2h 5 ren Danish.............. FO SWISS. eee aa Belgian. ........oviiiiiiii iia a gelandlo..ccovaiv crime on ae ve as salician....... ~ \ustrian....... + EE wie ‘ussian....... SRS Be ee Yuteh........... oo co Jutheniam................. Cee ee lungarian...... wo wv EBON ovis woein wav wn wm www po won Swedish............. si IBN eater a Hi Ierman..........oooo. FT Jkrainian........ooooiel een Norwegian................ FR Finnish. o.oo as Bukovinian = oo -08 4-20 | 17-92 4-87 41-85 "5-97 C88 *-06 5° -17 -10 -18 1-63 -45 82 64 29 -06 -34 1-24 -14 +84 -85 +98 *-80 )-11 +53 +39 -38 55 L-96 2.66 1 2 aq Le Table 57 arranges the data by gecgraphical and Table 58 by linguistic classification. The percentages for all Northern Furopeans in cities of 25,000 inhabitants and over are less than for the population as a whole. In the case of the Norwegians and Germans a tendency to avoid large cities is most marked. With the exception of the Greeks, the [talians, the Poles and the Roumanians, all the South Eastern Europeans likewise show smaller proportions in the large cities in Canada than does the total population. Of the South, Eastern and Central Europeans, the Finns, the Ukrainians, the Czechs and Hun- garians avoid the larger cities to an unusual extent. The percentages for Asiatic peoples are all higher than for the population of Canada as a whole. Turning to Table 58 we find that irregularity in the data makes generalization difficult. The general levels of the Scandinavian and Germanic groups are practically the same, and with the exception of the Poles and the Serbo-Croatians, the tendency to concentrate in large cities is probably about as small among the Slavic peoples in Canada as among the Scandinavian and Germanic. On the other hand, the percentages of the Latin ‘and Greek stocks in large cities are exceedingly high, except for the Roumanians, to whom reference has already been made. Of the Scandinavians, the Norwegians show the greatest aversion to large cities; of the Germanic group, the Germans; and of the Slavic group, the Ukrainians. The Poles appear to be different from other Slavie peoples in this respect. With a ficture

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