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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Origin and language - use of english and french by immigrant peoples

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LANGUAGE, INTERMARRIAGE AND LENGTH OF RESIDENCE 167 TABLE 103.—PERCENTAGE 10 YEARS OLD AND OVER OF PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN ORIGINS SPEAKING (1) ENGLISH AND (2) ENGLISH OR FRENCH AS MOTHER TONGUE, BY LINGUISTIC GROUPS, 1921. Seandinavian— Danish...voviiiiiinnnenn Tcelandie.............. Norwegian... Swedish. Total... .. Germenic— Flemish......... : Duteh...... German... . Total...oovvvennn. Latin and Greek— Greek......covvvvnnnens [talian.........oeeunen. Roumanian......... Total... ... Slavic— Austrian...... -...iieiiinnns Bulgarian.............. Czechoslovak............co000 Blan corvevmpermmmmman sawn PAlIal. onus ponies covwspny cos Serbo-Croatian............. Ukrainian. ...... wy pe Totals ee iin nnnenns JL EZ, Percentage speaking English as mother tongue D.C. 31-1 6-1 17-0 17.4 17:9 25-0 72-2 45-9 0.0 2.5 5:5 0.0 4 3-4 3-2 10-4 4d 5-5 2-0 n.p Percentage speaking English or French as mother tongue p.C. 31-2 6-1 17-1 17-4 17-9 37.8 72-3 46-0 52-7 8-8 7: 25 6-8 3-5 3-4 10-4 4. 5- ig 0-§ 3.4 LANGUAGE, INTERMARRIAGE AND LENGTH OF RESIDENCE Table 104 (p. 169) presents for specified non-British and non-French stocks (1) the per- centages 10 years of age and over unable to speak either English or French, (2) the percentage speaking English or French as mother tongue, (3) the percentages of those who did not know English as mother tongue, but had learned to speak it by 1921, (4) the percentages North American born, (5) the percentage of males intermarried with British and Freneh, (6) the percentage of males intermarried with British stocks, (7) the percentages of Canadian born in cities of 25,000 and over, and (8) the average number of years immigrants arriving since 1901 from the corresponding countries of birth had been in Canada in 1921. Intermarriage und Mother Tongue—That intermarriage and the proportions speaking English and French as the mother tongue are very closely connected may be seen at a glance on comparing Columns No. 2 and No. 5. With four exceptions, a high percentage speaking the official languages of Canada in the home, is associated with a large amount of inter- marriage and wice verse. The four cases where the relationship does not hold are the Bulgarians, Greeks, Italians and Icelanders. In each of the first three origins there are very large surpluses of males in the population, and for each of these origins the men have inter- married with the British and French several times as freely as the women. By using the data for the males only, the amount of intermarriage for the group as a whole is thus grossly overestimated, and were a table computed to measure the total amount of inter- marriage for both sexes, the correlation would be quite as marked in the case of those stocks as for any of the others. The Icelanders are harder to account for, and indeed the only suggestion that one ean put forward without further investigation, is that there is a marked tendency to preserve the Icelandic language in the home when either their men or women contract exogamous marriages. The Learning of English—Passing to Column 3, which shows the number in each origin who had acquired English as a percentage of those who did not speak it as the mother

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