INTERMARRIAGE WITH BRITISH AND FRENCH 123 
Rank 
Origin 
Juteh..... 
Swiss. ....... 
Janish........... 
Jreeks........... 
‘ulgarians...... 
Iotmegien...... - 
wedish........ 
Ferman. ......... - 
OE Ms aos veins wow wr 
Armenian. ........... 
‘celandic.........uuc 
talian.........o0eens 
Jzechoslovak...... 
Jelgian........ 
Per cent 
of married 
men mar- 
ried into 
British 
stocks 
43-4 
36-8 
34-8 
“eC 
9.5 
Rank 
Origin 
Serbo-Croatian... ...... 
RUSSIAN... vrei viarianaansaiinan 
TRIB. oo suene vr ou verve we nan ve 
Tegro....cooneninns NE — 
Polish. ...... © Frain swe 
Shinese....... oi EES £6 Sie pe = 
oumanian. . S50 8 4 4 
Tungarian. .. mds EB En 
ewish...... wrt ton wt 5 
\ustrian... [IO 
PI evrearaees ae 
Jkrainian..... sn mmm 
Galician..... 
Per cent 
of married 
men mar- 
ried into 
British 
stocks 
L 
0-6 
That the Bulgarians, Italians and Greeks appear in the upper half of the list is attribu- 
table to the very large surpluses of adult males in Canada. It is significant that the women 
of these origins showed such small percentages as 0, 1-4 and 1'0 intermarrying with the 
British. Generally speaking, the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples showed a relatively 
large amount of intermarrying with the British, while the Slavs show very low percentages. 
Were the figures for the women examined a similar distribution would be found. Reasons 
for these differences will be discussed in the next section. 
Before leaving this phase of the analysis, however, attention is drawn to the absolute 
magnitude of the figures. Important as are the differences between the various stocks in 
the relative degrees to which they have mixed with British stock, the absolute magnitude 
of the proportions is of as great, if not greater, significance, for they indicate the amount 
of assimilation by marriage which has already taken place. Assimilation by this means has 
made some progress among most of the North Western European peoples. It has scarcely 
begun with the South, Eastern and Central Europeans. About one-fifth of the men and 
women of Scandinavian and Germanic origin had intermarried with British stock by 1921, 
as against less than 3 p.c. of the Slavs. About one-tenth of the Greek and Italian married 
men have married with the British, but only one in a hundred of their women have taken 
husbands from the British stocks. It is apparent that many of the ingredients in Canada’s 
“ melting vot” have not yet begun to dissolve. 
TABLE 67.— ~*~ ~ ™*BLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF MARRIEI" Mt.~ ND WOMEN OF CONTI- 
NeN_ ~IGIN MARRIED INTO BRITISH STOCKS BY GT.) GRAPHICAL AND LING- 
UIST. Slev us . AS INDICATED BY THE PARENTAGE OF CHILDREN BORN IN THE 
REGISTRATION AREA). 
Jrigin 
NOTth WeStErn TOUTODEAIL. .«..te vse srrs annem senses netsnsetasuiaerassenecsuannaniisnss 
South, Eastern and Central European. ........oovvviiiiiiiaiiiieiaiiiiiiiniii nn, 
ER RETERR EEE 
GermaniC. ..o..eaiiiirrne  -- ee eee eres 
Latin and Greek..... FF eae 
Slavie..... cs 
Men 
Per cent 
married to 
women 
of British 
oricin 
Women 
Per cent 
married to 
men 
of British 
origin 
3.C. 
D.C. 
21-3! 22-3 
4-2 2-1 
22-2 24-7 
20-5 21-4 
10-6 1-3 
2.7 94 
Intermarriage with those of French Origin—As was pointed out at the beginning, the 
ata on intermarriage do not include the province of Quebec. Next to the English speak- 
ing peoples, however, the French is the largest element numerically in the Registration 
Area. Yet it is questionable whether the difference in numbers alone is adequate to account 
for the spread between the figures in Table 68, showing the extent of intermarriage of Con- 
tinental European groups with French stock, and those in Table 67 showing intermarriage 
of Continental Europeans with the British.