CANADIAN AND ELSEWHERE BORN IN THE PROVINCES 101

of North Western Europeans than had Manitoba. The South, Eastern and Central Europeans
were twice as numerous as those of North Western European birth, while in Manitoba their
numbers were three times as great.
In Alberta, of the foreign born, those coming from South, Eastern and Central Europe,
while much more numerous than those from the North and West, did not constitute such
an overwhelming percentage as in Manitoba or Saskatchewan. Yet there were more Slavs
shan Scandinavians and more Scandinavians than Germans, just as in the other Prairie
Provinces.
Because of the large percentage of British extraction among the United States born
soming to Canada, Alberta, though showing by far the largest percentage foreign born of
all the provinces in Canada, is not so foreign in the composition of its population as the
srude figures suggest. Probably Saskatchewan and Alberta have a much larger percentage
»f immigrants of other than British origin, but the large proportion coming from the United
States should be very carefully considered in any investigation designed to determine with
precision the percentages of immigrants of foreign stocks in the western provinces.
British Columbia, shewing a slightly larger percentage of foreign born than Manitoba,
is unique in that the proportions of the foreign born are about equally divided between
Europe, Asia and the United States: With 6-04 p.c. of European birth, 6:22 p.c. of Asiatic
birth and 6-66 p.c. born in the United States, we have in this province a different alignment
»f immigration from foreign countries than that obtaining in any other province of Canada.
Furthermore, as in Ontario, there is a far larger percentage of British born in the population
than of foreign born.
That there are great differences in the distribution of immigration between the provnces
 must be apparent, and in so far as differences in composition make for difference in
culture in the widest sense of the term, such material as has been presented seems to merit
very careful consideration.
TABLE 47.—PROVINCES RANKED ACCORDING TO PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION OF SPECIFIED
BIRTHPLACE IN 1921.

Rank

Canadas

+k
.B.
ue.
nS.
RS
Ian.
Jasls.
‘Ita,
C.

British
Isles

C.
Man.
Alta.
Ont.
“ask.

Foreign]
Countries


NW. |
Europe

ta. ta.
cask. Sask.
3.C. Man,
Man. } P.C.
Ont. “at.
Que. Qu
Je J I TR
N33, N.”
EI I PL.

8. BE.
and C.
Europe

Seandiavian

~
~cuntrias


L
1

Germanie

Countries


Ita.
“sk.
a.

Latin, !
Greek
Coum-{ries


sk.
“ta.
Mt.
-

Slavic
Coun-1riés


“lan.
Sask.
“ta.
.

U.S.A.

alta.
Sask.
B.C.
Man.
Jat.
© 3,

3.

Asiatic
Countries


3.C;
Alta.
Sask.
Man,
Int.
Jue,
N.8.
N.B.
PEI

" Negligible.
As further illustrating these differences, Table 48 divides the immigrants resident in
each province in 1921 into two classes, namely, foreign and British born. While for the
Dominion, over one-half of those born outside Canada came from the British Empire,
slightly more than two-thirds of the immigrants to Nova Scotia were British born. In
Prince Edward Island, slightly more than half were born in foreign countries—chiefly from
he United States. The numbers of British born and foreign born were approximately equal
in New Brunswick; a slightly larger percentage of foreign born is shown in the case of
Quebec, but in Ontario nearly three-quarters of the immigrants were of British birth, In
Manitoba, as in New Brunswick, the proportions were equal. On the other hand, twothirds
 of the immigrants in Saskatchewan and Alberta were born in foreign countries and
only one-third were of British birth. In British Columbia the percentages of Saskatchewan
and Alberta are reversed; almost two-thirds of all immigrants were British born. Thus,
rmmigration to British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia showed the largest proportions
British born, and that going to Saskatchewan and Alberta the largest proportions foreign
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