INTERMARRIAGE WITH BRITISH AND FRENCH 121
ASSIMILATION BY INTERMARRIAGE WITH THE BRITISH AND FRENCH
Intermarriage with Those of British Origin—More important than intermarriage
generally from the standpoint of assimilation is the progress made in intermarriage with
those of British and French origin. In Table 64 are found the numbers and percentages
of the fathers and mothers who had married into the British stock. Tables 65 and 66 group
the data by specified territorial and linguistic divisions.
These tables repeat the story of the three preceding ones, though the differences in the
proportions are many times more marked. The percentages of the North Western Euro-
pean married males who had married into the British stocks were five times greater than
that for the South, Eastern and Central European married males and, in the case of the
women, the proportion was len times greater. Similar differences appear. as between the
linguistic groups. Between 20 and 25 p.c. of the Scandinavian and Germanic married men
and women had married into the British stocks, as against less than 3 p.c. of the Slavs. The
unusual sex distribution of the Greeks and Italians is reflected again in the data on inter-
marriage with the British. Practically no mixed marriages had occurred between the women
of these origins and the British; but owing to the shortage of marriageable females in Can-
ada the Italian and Greek males Lad in some cases taken wives of British origin. Yet the
actual amount of intermarriage has pot been great even for the men. Up to 1921 only
10-6 p.c. of the Latin and Greek married males had intermarried with the British, More
detailed examination of the tables reveals striking differences as between particular stocks.
When the proportions of married men who had married into British stocks are arranged
in rank, the Galicians and Ukrainians appear at the bottom of the list and the Dutch and
Swiss at the top. Less than one in every hundred Galician and Ukrainian fathers in Canada
had married a wife of British origin, while 44 out of every hundred fathers of Dutch origin
and 37 of the Swiss had done so. The figure for the Dutch is 80 times larger than that for
the Galicians and 60 times greater than that for the Ukrainians. (See p. 123)
TABLE 64 —NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN OF DIFFERENT ORIGINS
WHO HAD MARRIED INTO THE BRITISH STOCKS, AND HAD CHILDREN BORN TO THEM IN 1921.
Origin
Armenian..... . .
AUStTIAN. oo rarnvannn core ..
Bel@iAN. . ovovvrenneenmranssvennans 10 0 aes
BUIZATIAN. oes ve vvevnrenerensrasraesuiennes
CRITEBE. ous sve vaeersacrenenasnreeracnreenass
0zechosIOVEaK.. cvvre i criireenrniieinaninn
Danish. .ooiv ines
FInnast. «vu vanes or ove + uwmnmmass Shan vEE
Galician. ..ooeereirininr corinne
Serman...... eee
Sreek......... Sgr oa 4 —
Hungarian..... ..
[celandie...... wn
[ndian....... 1
[talian......... we
Japanese...... oi
Jewish......... Cee
Negro.......... swan won
Norwegian........ Prp———
Polish............ args spud go ww
Roumanian................... oe we pe
Russian,......oooveeniiiiiiinen G4 6 Be
Serbo-Croatiii........covvuvieiiniiinnenaens,
Swedish. vecveiniiiiiiiii iia
Syrian.....evee.. ..
Ukrainial......coo.o.. oo.
1
Total
37
2,765
517
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29:
197
360
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368
866
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Tras
313
1, 663
604
2,207
115
[1]
190
194
2 564
Men
(2)
Number
married
into
British
races
5
37
49
16
10
19
124
623
15
4
1,273
5
i
59
27
240
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28
1
29%
60
20
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10 |
250
70
28
1%
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Per cent
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Sslumn 1)
D.C.
13-5
13
9-5
23-5
3.4
9-6
34:5
43-4
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Total
30
2,87
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27:
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246
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191
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1,78.
609
1,529
366
1,384
1,645
594
2,064
91
1,175
134
145
2 B70
Women
(2)
Number
married
into
British
races
(3)
Per cent
(Col. 2 of
Column 1)
p.c.’ —
1
15
59
0
3-3
1-6
11-3
2
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39:4
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21:6
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