MARRIAGE WITHIN THE SAME ORIGIN GROUP 117 
representative than those of the other provinces. But the study is first concerned with the 
Registration Area as a whole, and when the 22,000 are deducted from the total figure, 
approximately 150,000 married men and 150,000 married women of child-bearing age and 
of various specified origins are left as the parents of the children born in the Registration 
Area in that year. It is suggested that this number is sufficiently large and sufficiently 
representative for the purpose of this study. 
THE TENDENCY TO MARRIAGE WITHIN THE SAME ORIGIN GROUP 
Table 6, page 58, in the “ First Annual Report on Vital Statistics” published for 1921 
oy the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, shows the number of births in the Registration Area 
by origin of father and origin of mother. Table 59 below, gives a list of those fathers and 
mothers whose origin is specified and also the number of cases where both are of the same 
origin. 
TABLE 59.—ORIGIN OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN BORN IN THE REGISTRATION AREA IN 1921, 
Number 
of 
fathers 
Number 
of 
mothers 
Number of 
mothers 
and 
fathers of 
same 
origin 
Origin 
English........... 
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Welsh....... 
56, 862 
18,924 
22,284 
702 
98,572 
59,180 
17,738 
22,118 
651 
13,348 
8,761 
11,826 
148 
90, 740 
British... 
99, 687 
French............. . EAA 2 
Armenian............. “ nites? 
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Belobin. ju vvees esmvwen env ng . SO 
Bulgarian.......... § y Sah PRR RR BY AAT SRB 4 
Chinese. ......ovvuvevrenn. we CI EY PR SPER BY AE RR 
Czechoslovak........... , LAHE HE eR SEERA SERRE CERGEE 
Danish........ -.covuen 2 pane nu nb Erb iE {63 eR 
Finnish..........coo0e, . 
GaliciaB....co cvevunnn, . 
German..... .. .. 
Oro, , cov 1s cwmvens ven + wi 
Hindu........ —— Ce 
Hungarien.... we 84 § np. 
[celandic....... ....... ws 
Indian........ ........ oo 
Italian........oouenes i 
Tapanese......... .. 
Jewish...... . 
Negro... ...coover. i 
Norwegian... . ven 
Polish........ cages we wy 
Roumanian... ws 
Russian...........coveiiiiieiienns o 
Serbo-Croatian. .............-ae- “ 
Swedish.....ovuiiaiinees . 
BWiss. ovvrevrs ve res 
Syrian...........- 
Ukrainian... 
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Total (less British origin), . .  ........ 39,101 
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On the assumption that the figures above are representative of the married population 
as a whole, or sufficently so for all practical purposes, by expressing the number of fathers who 
have married women of the same origin as a percentage of the total fathers of each origin, 
the extent to which the fathers have married within their respective groups is shown in 
comparable form. The same applies to the marriage of mothers to men of the same origin. 
The percentages will be rarely the same for men and women of a given group, because the 
number of the married males usually differs from the number of married females of the 
same origin. 
18,858 
30 
2,873 
522 
37 
27% 
231 
248 
1,371 
40] 
877 
7,833 
103 
403 
528 
714 
1,789 
609 
1,520 
366 
[,384 
1,645 
504 
2,064 
91 
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