06 URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION OF VARIOUS STOCKS
TABLE 52.—PERCENTAGE URBAN OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN BORN, FOR CANADA AND THE
PROVINCES, BY GEOGRAPHICAL GROUPING OF COUNTRIES OF BIRTH, 1921.
Country of birth
Vorth Western European—
Belgium................
Denmark...............
france................
FOrMANY aan.
Holland. ...............|
tceland.................
Norway..........vnu..
3weden................
Switzerland............
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South, Eastern and Central
European—
AIP oe nvins we wes
Bulgaria. .............
Szechoslovakia........
inland...
alicia, oun
ATBO0B. vsvsns ves rants
Jungary......coooaut.
BBY uwvivvs sviainds ina’
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‘oland.................
Qoumanig.............
RUSS. cornnnnanns
Ukraine.... . "
[otal
Canads'
p.c.
1rban
0-64
1-4¢
+35
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80
5
1-8¢
“4-60
14-64
34-50
“.37
2-82
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"-
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rq
Prince
~dward
‘sland
p.c.
urban
00-00
37-50
50-00
1
50-00
100-00
15.
na. pe
Nova
Scotia
p.c.
urban
77.87
71-43
38-67
56-44
62.74
100-00
69-66
51-30
71-43
68:04
75-20
95-65
ih
ad
New
Bruns-
wick
p.c.
urban
13-04
23:08
25-14
26-79
68-75
41-33
36-04
75-00
28-94
53:25
15-45
20-00
9.38
“50
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p.c. p.c. | pe. oe,
urban urban urban urban
87:74
82-24
82-73
77-06
91-40
00-00
87-28
87-03
R5-RR
“08
57-11
68-87
52-27
61-53
35-69
55-89
44-94
64-1F
.M
5.24
7:35
29-65
36-18
‘0-74
1.20
-61
7
18-42
18-03
19-86
25-41
23-61
12-01
.2-€.
iR.07
84.311 51-25
nq
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94-46
38-68
or pr
yr ey
60-97
59-21
£5.30
S107
31-78
90-00
51-25
19-12
“15
21-86
11-59 |
16-72
5-75
“72
| Albertal british
p.c.
urban a
29-20
‘9-64
4-77
20-67
30-14
24 -8F
5:51
45.57
39-66
46-29
38-84
37-28
39-81
33-58
26-89
22-13
33-98
on. an
23-61
32-08
32-15
10-21 |
10-84
39-51
26:47
25-81
29:74
28-20
°7:70
2-91
2-73
7-85
19:66
24.97
22:37
2.711
38:00
37
45
1 Numbers too small for percentages to be significant.
When the foreign born are classed in linguistic groups (Table 53, p. 108), the Scandina-~
vians are found to be the least urban of all. The German group, with a percentage of only
38:74 living in urban districts, ranks second, but there is a considerable difference between
the percentages for these two groups, the figure for the Scandinavians being only 25-75 p.c.
Of; the Slavs. and the Latins and Greeks, on the other hand, much larger percentages live
in incorporated cities, towns and villages. The percentage for the former is 46-88 and for
the Latins and Greeks 63:97 p.c—just a fraction under the percentage urban for the immi-
grants from the British Isles. Among the Continental Europeans, the Scandinavians are
oy far the most rural and the Latins and Greeks by far the most urban. Just two and
one-half times as large a proportion of the Latin and Greek immigrants live in urban
communities as of the Scandinavians.
Turning now to a more detailed examination, attention is called to the peculiarities of the
populations of the specified birthplaces. Of the North Western Europeans, immigrants
from France and Switzerland are the most urban; the Belgians and the Dutch follow with
dsetween 40 and 41 p.c.; the Germans and Icelanders are still less urban. The most rural
of the immigrants from the northwest of Europe are the Swedes and Norwegians. Indeed,
of all stocks the Norwegians and Swedes show the lareest percentages living in rural
districts.
Of the immigrants from South, Eastern and Central Europe, the percentage urban of
the Greeks is most marked; in fact, of all immigrant peoples coming to Canada, the Greeks
show the most marked tendency to concentrate in urban districts. The Italians also show
a very high figure of urbanization, with something over 75 pe. of Italian immigrants living
in incorporated cities, towns and villages. These two are in a class by themselves, in
comparison with the other South, Eastern and Central Eurcpeans. Passing from the south
to the east of Europe we find that the Poles are a very urban people, that the Russians
show a proportion 7 p.c. higher than the percentage urban for the total population, and that
the figure for Roumanians and Bulgarians is also slightly above the average for the whole
of Canada. The least urban of all South. Eastern and Central Europeans are those born in