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ORIGINS OF THE POPULATION OF CANADA 
on a strict quota system, the pressure of the surplus European population, which would have 
tound its way there in the past, will be transferred in large measure to Canada. Just how 
significant this will be is impossible to foresee, yet it will doubtless operate to keep the rates 
of increase of the foreign stocks in Canada from dropping to anything like the extent that 
otherwise would occur. 
Indeed, there is good reason for the belief that though the diversity in rates of growth 
may not be so large again, the natural trend of unrestricted immigration would materially 
shift the balance of the stocks in our population in a few years. The cumulative effect of 
even a small differential rate is comparatively rapid, and even if the rate of growth of Euro- 
pean stocks were reduced to a quarter of that for the decade 1901 to 1911, it would still be 
sufficiently higher than the percentage increases for either the French or British to overtake 
shese stocks numerically in the long run, Further, there is no probability that any such 
radical reduction in the growth of European stocks will take place in the near future. 
This raises a fourth point. If the rates of increase for the first and second decades are 
compared, in all except five cases a lower figure appears in 1911-1921. These five are the 
Bulgarian and Roumanian groups, the Greeks, the Swiss, the Negroes and the Indians. In 
the first three cases, the rate of increase was positive, but more rapid in the latter decade. 
[n the two latter cases an actual numerical decline was changed to a moderate growth. The 
merease in the first group is accounted for by extensive immigration in the first half of the 
decade, as compared with the previous ten-year period. For example, only one Bulgarian 
immigrant arrived in Canada in 1901, 40 in 1902, 5 in 1903, etc., but 4,616 came to Canada in 
the fiscal year 1912-13. The Greeks show the greatest proportionate increase in rate ; the 
‘nerease for the Swiss is slight. Yet while declining percentage increase was universal with 
shese minor exceptions, all but a very few stocks increased much more rapidly than either 
the British or French. 
TABLE 12—NUMBER OF VARIOUS STOCKS IN CANADA 1901, 1911, 1921, AND PERCENTAGE 
INCREASES FOR DECADES, 1901 TO 1911 AND 1911 TO 1921, 
Stocks 
1901 
Number 
1911 
1921 
P.c. increase 
1901-1911 1 1911-1921 
24-94 
39-682 
&5-47 
17-61 
64-06 
19-36 
34:69 
110-92 
159-31 
38:70 
59-71 
66-75 
47-03 
60-05 
55-63 
93-77 
21-65 
52:80 
42-53 
-56-60 
75-90 
113-45 
5-04 
8-38 
—64-00 
—85-56 
21:95 
4 Includes: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish. 
2 Includes: Austrian, German, Bukovinian, Dutch, Galician, Hungarian, Russian, Ruthenian, Bohemian, Moravian, 
Serbo-Croatian, Lithuanian, Lettish, Ukrainian, Laplander. 
3 Includes: Algerian, Arabian, Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilian, Egyptian, Eskimo, Hawaiian, Haytian, Jamaican, 
Korean, Malayan, Maltese, Maori, Mexican, Persian, Peruvian, Philippino, Portuguese, and Spanish, 
1 Includes: 34,481 ‘‘half-breeds’’. 
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BCOLCR. cia 
Other.....oo iia 
Prench............ o.oo... wa EEE RRS Bh 
Buropean......... ah STEELE SPEER RE oe 
Bulgarian and Roumanian.......................... 
TIIIBR va vusers conan 48 49043 firmmnnn wn ton JR 
JET 
Hebrew. ..ooooonn iii iii ieee, 
[talian.............ouuuss. xin SARI SWE § 
20l8h. 
Scandinavian L.................... i 
SWISE. oii . 
Other European 2.., 
FOIILs vo amperes CHRIS SENET Eid Cee 
Chinese.......c.oovvivuiineennn. oo. vu sen 
ind. .oenniiiii “ 
Japanese.................oiiiiiiii... 5 
Turkish................... vi 
Syrian... Erdem 
Armenian............... eee 
LAIR ccuinvns os pons £30 HAS SHEA Ealints mrotnme memraen 
NOPIO ys sos inins 550504 5 nemmsns nnmmms somtmmn woes v sons 
Various. ....ovvvi ieee ieee aaa 
Unspecified... ..........cooiiiiiiiiiii iii, 
Total........... 
3,063,195 
1,260,899 
988,721 
800,154 
13,421 
+, 649,371 
456, 647 
2,00 
2 
29; 
16,131 
10,834 
6,285 
31,042 
3,865 
182,349 
23,731 
17,312 
1,738 
1,681 
127, 9414 
17,437 
1,454 
31,5639 
5,871,815 | 
3,806,908 868,903 
£88150 2.545, 496 
1,050,382 1,107,817 
997,880 1173, 637 
265,571 41953 
2,054,800 2,452,751 
023,727 1,244, 131 
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