30 PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF STOCKS AND NATIVITY GROUPS
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THE BIRTHPLACES OF THE POPULATION BY PROVINCES )
Table 43 (p. 96) shows the distribution of the population by birthplace for Canada and
she provinces, in 1911 and 1921. Tables 44 and 45 arrange the data for the European born by
geographical and linguistic groups and Table 46 presents a summary for Canada and the
Provinces. The information in these rather formidable tables may best be presented by
the use of charts.
The nine provinces, arranged in order of the percentage of their population Canadian
born in 1921, are as follows (See chart 27) :—
Province

Percentage
Canadian born
Prince Edward Island............. 7.22
New Brunswick............... ........ 2-47
Quebec..........,..... "2-01
Nova Seotig..ooo.oenvuouin... 91-69
ontario. ....oieeieenaiin..,. 78-13
Manitoba.......... [ARR
Saskatchewan................ fuer
ADorio., vores i suns 53."
British Columbia..................................... erste sw ws Ge wes ox wan oa 0 JIE
The first point to note is the wide range of fluctuations in the proportions. The percentage
 of Canadian born is almost twice as high in Prince Edward Island as in British
Columbia. Indeed from Quebec east the proportion of native Canadians is on an entirely
different level from west of Ontario. Changes in population structure in the Eastern Provinces
 are thus going on very slowly, but as we move westward from Ontario the population
appears to be in an increasing state of flux. The percentage of Canadian born fluctuates
50 violently that the traveller finds on reaching the Pacific coast that he has passed from
the far East where less than 3 p.c. of the population was born outside of Canada to the
axtreme West, where nearly half consists of immigrants.
A comparison of the proportions Canadian born in 1911 and 1921 by provinces (Table
16) shows that the provinces stand in the same rank at the last two Census dates, though
she proportions of Canadian born are slightly less in 1911 than in 1921 in the East and considerably
 less in the provinces from Ontario west.
Chart 27 also shows the proportions of the population born in the British Isles at the
date of the 1921 census. The provinces arraneed in order are as follows: ——

Percentage
British born
British Columbia..... + 4 sees 29-31
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Saskatchewan. ...............ooooeii i —— ‘ Ep
QUEBEC... iii A — "9
NOVA SCO overeat ianainaannnnns 4% 8 16
New Brunswick. ............................. FE 2-46
Prince Edward Island...............oooiviiiiiiii ie 0-94
Attention again is directed to the wide range of the percentages. In contrast with the previous
 table, the proportion of the population born in the British Isles is very much heavier
from Ontario west, as compared with Quebec and the Maritimes. The proportion of British
immigrants in the population of the five western provinces is four to eight times as great
as in Quebec, which shows the highest percentage of any of the four eastern provinces. Thus
the effect of British immigration in the past generation on the composition of the population
in the various provinces has been to give & more than proportionate number of settlers to
she provinces from Ontario west. In 1921 British Columbia showed the largest percentage
of her population born in the British Isles. While Ontario, as will be shown later, has
received a much greater total number of British immigrants than any other province, her
population is several times as large as that of any western province, so that British immigrants,
 though great in numbers, constitute only a moderate percentage of her total population.
 In comparison with the other western provinces, it seems that Saskatchewan has,
not been receiving a proportionate share of British immigration. Table 46 shows that in
1911 Saskatchewan had a somewhat larger percentage of British immigrants than Ontario,
but the situation was reversed by 1921. In all provinces except Quebec, Ontario and British
Columbia, there was a lower proportion of the population born in the British Isles in 1921
than in 1911

Province