Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1895264332

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Author:: Myers, Gustavus

Title:: Geschichte der großen amerikanischen Vermögen

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1916 -

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1895266750

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242184

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Author:: Myers, Gustavus http://d-nb.info/gnd/10190651X

Title:: Geschichte der großen amerikanischen Vermögen

Volume count:: Bd. 1

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: XL, 412 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Dritter Teil: Die grossen Vermögen aus Eisenbahnen

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URBAN RESIDENTS AMONG THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION 107 Galicia, with a percentage practically equal to that for the Swedes. The Finns, Austrians and Hungarians, with percentages ranging between 35 and 40 p.c., are also considerably less urban than the average for the group, or for the population as a whole. The proportions for the balance of the South, Eastern and Central European group are between 40 pe. and 50 p.c. urban. it is difficult, therefore, to speak of the urban distribution of the South, Eastern and Central Europeans as a group because of the great variation in the - extent to which immigrants from the respective countries in that section of Europe exhibit a predisposition to urban life. While on the average the South, Eastern and Central Europeans are much more urban than immigrants from North Western Europe, settlers from such countries as Galicia, Finland and Austria show appreciably smaller percentages of urban domicile in Canada than does the total North Western European group. However, in turning to certain linguistic groupings (Table 53) less variation appears, which seems to suggest that the tendency to urban life is associated with peculiarities of cultural rather than geographical origin. The Scandinavian immigrants show a more or less uniformly low percentage urban. While the figure for the Icelanders is somewhat higher thap the average, on the whole the immigrants from Iceland have been longer in Canada than those from any other European country, and the tendency to move cityward, which increases with residence on this side of the ocean, should be more marked in their case. it is impossible with the data at hand to trace the movement of the Icelandic population within the country, but the comparatively small immigration from Iceland since the beginning of the century would favour the cityward movement of the older settlers being reflected in the percentage of the urban to the total population in 1921. Among the Germanic peoples the uniformity in the proportions of the immigrants urban and rural is very marked. The percentage of urban for the group is higher than that for the Scandinavians, and with the exception of very minor overlapping as between the Germans and Icelariders, the percentage for every element in the Germanie group is higher than the highest in the Scandinavian. Among the Latins and Greeks, however, no such uniformity is discernible. The lowest percentage urban in that group is 10 points higher than the highest in the Germanic group, but the figures for the Greeks and Italians are far above those for the French and Rouman- jams. As a group the Latins and Greeks clearly tend toward urban life, but within the group itself the decided aversion to rural life displayed by immigrants from Greece and Italy places them in a class by themselves. What has been said as to lack of uniformity among the Latins and Greeks in respect of percentages living in urban districts, may be reiterated of the Slavie peoples. They differ radically in concentration in urban districts. The Galician immigrants, with less than = quarter of them living in incorporated cities, towns and villages in Canada, may be contrasted with the Poles, who have over two-thirds of their numbers living in urban communities. Such differences are difficult to explain. The Poles and Russians show the highest percentages of urban immigrants, and from those two countries a very large pro- portion of our Jewish immigrants come. As will be shown later, of all origins in Canada, the Jews show by far the highest percentage in our largest cities, and with a considerable proportion of immigrants from those two countries of Jewish extraction it is not surprising that the percentage urban among those born in Poland and Russia should be somewhat higher than for the other Slavic countries. Just how far this accounts for the differences cannot be ascertained, and just what other forces and influences are at work to bring about the remarkable variation in percentages, can only be discovered and evaluated after careful study. It is questionable, however, whether the proportion of Polish Jews among the irmmi- grants of Polish birth is large enongh to account for the extremely high percentage of urban residents shown by that group.

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