Die Zeit der preußischen Freihandelspolitik

Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 884015998

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-8719

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Katzenstein, Louis http://d-nb.info/gnd/1055188525

Title:: Die Zeit der preußischen Freihandelspolitik

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlag von Leonhard Simion Nf.

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (32 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION BY SEX 111 the Italians and Greeks, and with Roumanian immigrants constituting so preponderating a proportion of the total immigrants from Latin and Greek countries in those provinces, it is natural to expect that the figure showing the percentage urban for the Latin and Greek group (including the Roumanians) would be exceptionally low. It is very probable that immigrants from Italy and Greece show just as marked a tendency to concentrate in the cities in Saskatchewan and Alberts as in other parts of the Dominion. The Slavic group is similar to the Scandinavian. In the East immigrants from those countries show an undue concentration in urban parts, while in the west they are more rural than the population as a whole. Immigrants from Asia show larger percentages urban than other classes of immigrants in every province of the Dominion except British Colum- bia, where the Greeks are slightly more urban than the Asiatics. Occupational differences largely account for the differences in urban and rural domicile obtaining among the Asiatics in the various provinces. Finally, United States born immigrants coming to Canada, while displaying less disposi- tion to live in urban districts than the total population of Canada, in all provinces from Manitoba east show a greater concentration in incorporated cities, towns and villages than is evidenced among the population as a whole. From Saskatchewan west immigration from the United States has been directed to rural areas to an unusually marked extent. TABLE 54—SUMMARY SHOWING PERCENTAGE URBAN OF IMMIGRANT POPULATION FOR CANADA AND THE PROVINCES, BY SPECIFIED GROUPING OF COUNTRIES OF BIRTH, 1921. Country of Birth . Total population................ Total foreign borm.............. British Isles........... — UTOPO. «ivy iii oo sigs vs vevns Total North Western Europe... Total South, Eastern and Cen- tral Europe, ............... Scandinavian Countries. ......., Germanic Countries............ Latin and Greek Countries...... Slavic Countries. ............... LL United States.......... ..... Canadal P.E.I. p.c. ._p.c. irban “urban 19-52 15-68 54:88 15-75 24-50 21-55 25-33 37-80 63-89 50-12 25-75 38.74 83-97 tr.88 L550 42-63 L20u Nova Seotia p.c. urban 43:34 63-56 67-83 78-42 AR.N4 34-40 39-90 47-73 New Bruns- wick p.c. nrban 32-08 12-64 51-98 51-55 29 04 72-62 31-42 57 of .. 53 38-24 Quebec Ontario p.c. p.c. urban | urban 56-01 84-70 1.0m boo. Pp, 58-17 7% .09 792 11-04 51.9% 35-98 90-05 fL-26 y1-77 96-47 06-45 79.02 76-06 50-00 47.7" 79. 79-5. 92-44 71:46 Mani- toba p.c. urban 42-88 18 aq 10-6 12-47 36-46 3¢ ee xe 1-51 L260 | 44.00 Saskat-| pin Albertal p.c. p.c. Asher urban 28-90 21-48 43-02 18-49 15-75 37-88 4 25-81 | 55-56 22.91 20-63 19-69 13:55 16.28 18.63 19-57 87-54 29.80 24-36 16-36 "4.62 £2-06 23-60 74-44 25.88 British Columbia p.c. urban 47-19 43-88 60-99 36-156 33.08 38-09 30-68 40-43 51-72 29-55 © 50-82 44-44 1 Numbers too small for percentage to be significant. . URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION BY SEX . Table 55 is presented for the purpose of showing the difference between the percentages of men and women living in urban districts, first, for the population as a whole and secondly, for the respective groups of immigrants. A cursory inspection of this table will show that where the percentage of urban males is large the percentage of the females is also large and vice versa; and secondly, that for immigrants from all but two countries the percentage of the females in urban districts exceeds the percentage of the males. Of those two excep- tions, the Bulgarians with only 1,000 population in the whole of Canada may be dismissed ag relatively unimportant. The other exception oceurs in the case of the immigrants from Galicia, and while their numbers are comparatively large the difference in percentage is exceedingly small. The predominating tendency is obviously for females to concentrate in urban communities to a considerably greater extent than males. The causes of this are varied and it is impossible to weigh their relative importance. The following are suggested as possible contributories: the rigours of agricultural and pioneer life; the great mobility of immigrant males, among whom large numbers either are unmarried or have left their families across the seas; types of occupations, railroad building and maintenance, lumbering and mining, etc., which take men to the rural parts. From the women's standpoint there is areater opportunity for suitable work in urban districts. Such occupations as domestic

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