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 I. Origins of the population of Canada

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS OF THE POPULATION OF CANADA Canada is able to determine from time to time, within reasonable limits of accuracy, the proportions of the various origins which make up her population. A body of material s now available on the changing composition of the Canadian population which gives a necessary perspective to a study of its structure. This is particularly desirable at the present time when Canada is entering upon a new expansion which may bring a heavy flow of new citizens from various quarters of the earth. A nation composed of many diverse stocks presents a different problem from that of one with a small admixture of foreign elements. There is in the first place the biological aspect. In certain parts of the world, the problem of the half-caste or half-breed has assumed grave proportions. Canada’s problems in this respect are largely potential. There are also the various cultural sides of intermingling. Peoples of different stocks have different educational, moral, economic, religious and political backgrounds. It is with the changing proportion of the different stocks in Canada since the beginning of the century that this initial chapter is concerned. THE PROPORTION OF SPECIFIED ORIGINS IN THE POPULATION OF CANADA The proportion of the various stocks in Canada, in 1901, 1911 and 1921, is shown by principal origins in Table 7. Changes in these proportions are due to the joint operation of three main forces: first, immigration; secondly, emigration; and thirdly, natural increase. Attention is first drawn to the present composition of our population. Column 1 shows that in 1921 somewhat over half of the population of Canada was of British stock, and over a quarter of the population, French. The other European origins combined con- stituted only 14.16 p.c. of the total, and the Asiatics less than 1 p.c. The Indians made up one and a quarter per cent, while the proportion of Negroes stood at a very low figure of less than one-quarter of one pe. All coloured peoples totalled slightly over 2 p.c. of the population. Thus the population of Canada, as a whole, is as yet predominantly of British and French stock; these two constituted over 83 p.c. of the people domiciled in Canada at the date of the last census. TABLE 7.—PROPORTION OF VARIOUS STOCKS IN THE POPULATION OF CANADA. 1921. AS COMPARED WITH 1011 ANT 1001. Origins BIER. sieve retirees Eagle oon sonia wun sie wainnn ncn THEI, carvan wvias wi gusnwns vows ren Bootoh bona on pryeems arsine so OHDOT vv swine 13 vHEEEEs SF PREED 43 5 PROB. vs in vii ne iis dh mn ns SEnS 5 dther Europeans....... . Austrian........ Belgian..........ccovuivnnn. Bulgarian and Roumanian............. Czech (Bohemian and Moravian). ... Det cons ay saipes oa wn gos Tinnish...oeen FOIMAN. oo ivenreeanns "reek. .ieiiiiian Tebrew............ . Tungarial.................. 11 ‘Ohishi vua ve sunervnnss sus USN Ge ede Gs candinavianl.,......... ‘erbo Croatian..... wigs P.c. of total population 1921 1 1911 | 1901 56440 20.96 12-60 13-36 0-48 87-91 1-12 1497 rg ~17 10 - 24 78 -24 -2f .35 of -06 pp Ad YQ 1 I-18 .7€ 0-63 61 0-46 14 0-60 1-90 1-49 0-04 | = 3.15 n.00 57-03 23-47 18-41 14-90 0-25 30-70 8-61 0-20 0-06 0-01 9-63 9-05 5-78 )-01 3-30 J-03 0-20 0-12 0-37 0-58 0.07

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