CHAPTER II 
DISTRIBUTION OF VARIOUS STOCKS AND OF FOREIGN BORN 
ACCORDING TO LENGTH OF RESIDENCE 
THE PROPORTION OF DIFFERENT STOCKS CANADIAN BORN, UNITED STATES 
BORN AND BORN IN COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES 
Table 13 shows the numerical distribution of the population by origins as between 
Canadian born, United States born and immigrants born in countries other than the 
United States. Tables 14 and 15 group the Europeans in Table 13 by rough geographical 
and linguistic classes, and Tables 16, 17; 18 and 19 express the same data in percentages. 
A summary appears in Table 20. 
From the figures of Table 13 it may be deduced that in 1921 77.75 p.c. of the popula- 
tion of Canada were Canadian born, and ‘4.25 p.c. United States born. As respects the 
remaining 18 p.c. or 1,681,712, 12.12 p.c. or over two-thirds, or 1,065454, were British born, 
leaving 5.88 p.c. of the total population, or 516,258 persons, as the foreign born other than 
United States born. The origins of these half million persons are analyzed as far as 
possible in the following tables. The 1,054,982 persons of British origins born in countries 
other than Canada and the United States correspond fairly well with the 1,085,454 persons 
Empire born outside of Canada—a proof that our British born persons (other than Cana- 
dians) are practically all of British origins, and may consequently be considered as adding 
not at all to the problems which confront us. Of course some few may have heen 
of other than British stocks, and conversely some few of those born in foreign countries 
other than the United States may have been of British stocks: But the numbers of such 
persons must be comparatively negligible. 
Number Born in the United States—In the first place it is evident from Table 13 that 
a very considerable number of our people have been born outside Canada—almost two 
million. Of those, 375,000 were of United States birth, or a little less than a fifth. The 
British stocks account for 205,000 or 55 pc. of the immigrants born in the United States 
and the French for 50,000 or 13 p.c. Thus nearly 70 p.c. of those born in the United States 
and resident in Canada in 1921 were either of British or of French stock. Figures for the 
other principal stocks. arranged in order of importance. are as follows 
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Stock 
Number 
40, 009 
22,186 
11,625 
10,176 
6,158 
4,851 
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Per cent of 
total U.S. 
Born 
That so large a percentage of those immigrants born across the line are of the dominant 
Canadian stocks and that the bulk of the remainder are of either Germanic or Scandinavian 
origin are facts fraught with great significance. The British, French, German and 
Scandinavians accounted for nearlv 95 p.c. of the total United States born residents of 
Canada in 1921. 
The Southern, Eastern and Central European stocks are conspicuous for the extremely 
small numbers appearing among the immigrants of United States birth in Canada. The 
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