URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION BY SEX 111 
the Italians and Greeks, and with Roumanian immigrants constituting so preponderating a 
proportion of the total immigrants from Latin and Greek countries in those provinces, it is 
natural to expect that the figure showing the percentage urban for the Latin and Greek 
group (including the Roumanians) would be exceptionally low. It is very probable that 
immigrants from Italy and Greece show just as marked a tendency to concentrate in the 
cities in Saskatchewan and Alberts as in other parts of the Dominion. 
The Slavic group is similar to the Scandinavian. In the East immigrants from those 
countries show an undue concentration in urban parts, while in the west they are more 
rural than the population as a whole. Immigrants from Asia show larger percentages urban 
than other classes of immigrants in every province of the Dominion except British Colum- 
bia, where the Greeks are slightly more urban than the Asiatics. Occupational differences 
largely account for the differences in urban and rural domicile obtaining among the Asiatics 
in the various provinces. 
Finally, United States born immigrants coming to Canada, while displaying less disposi- 
tion to live in urban districts than the total population of Canada, in all provinces from 
Manitoba east show a greater concentration in incorporated cities, towns and villages 
than is evidenced among the population as a whole. From Saskatchewan west immigration 
from the United States has been directed to rural areas to an unusually marked extent. 
TABLE 54—SUMMARY SHOWING PERCENTAGE URBAN OF IMMIGRANT POPULATION FOR CANADA 
AND THE PROVINCES, BY SPECIFIED GROUPING OF COUNTRIES OF BIRTH, 1921. 
Country of Birth . 
Total population................ 
Total foreign borm.............. 
British Isles........... — 
UTOPO. «ivy iii oo sigs vs vevns 
Total North Western Europe... 
Total South, Eastern and Cen- 
tral Europe, ............... 
Scandinavian Countries. ......., 
Germanic Countries............ 
Latin and Greek Countries...... 
Slavic Countries. ............... 
LL 
United States.......... ..... 
Canadal P.E.I. 
p.c. ._p.c. 
irban “urban 
19-52 
15-68 
54:88 
15-75 
24-50 
21-55 
25-33 
37-80 
63-89 
50-12 
25-75 
38.74 
83-97 
tr.88 
L550 
42-63 
L20u 
Nova 
Seotia 
p.c. 
urban 
43:34 
63-56 
67-83 
78-42 
AR.N4 
34-40 
39-90 
47-73 
New 
Bruns- 
wick 
p.c. 
nrban 
32-08 
12-64 
51-98 
51-55 
29 04 
72-62 
31-42 
57 
of 
.. 53 
38-24 
Quebec Ontario 
p.c. p.c. 
urban | urban 
56-01 
84-70 
1.0m 
boo. 
Pp, 
58-17 
7% .09 
792 
11-04 
51.9% 
35-98 
90-05 
fL-26 
y1-77 
96-47 
06-45 
79.02 
76-06 
50-00 
47.7" 
79. 
79-5. 
92-44 
71:46 
Mani- 
toba 
p.c. 
urban 
42-88 
18 
aq 
10-6 
12-47 
36-46 
3¢ ee 
xe 
1-51 
L260 | 
44.00 
Saskat-| 
pin Albertal 
p.c. p.c. 
Asher urban 
28-90 
21-48 
43-02 
18-49 
15-75 
37-88 4 
25-81 | 
55-56 
22.91 
20-63 
19-69 
13:55 
16.28 
18.63 
19-57 
87-54 
29.80 
24-36 
16-36 
"4.62 
£2-06 
23-60 
74-44 
25.88 
British 
Columbia 
p.c. 
urban 
47-19 
43-88 
60-99 
36-156 
33.08 
38-09 
30-68 
40-43 
51-72 
29-55 
© 50-82 
44-44 
1 Numbers too small for percentage to be significant. . 
URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION BY SEX . 
Table 55 is presented for the purpose of showing the difference between the percentages 
of men and women living in urban districts, first, for the population as a whole and secondly, 
for the respective groups of immigrants. A cursory inspection of this table will show that 
where the percentage of urban males is large the percentage of the females is also large 
and vice versa; and secondly, that for immigrants from all but two countries the percentage 
of the females in urban districts exceeds the percentage of the males. Of those two excep- 
tions, the Bulgarians with only 1,000 population in the whole of Canada may be dismissed 
ag relatively unimportant. The other exception oceurs in the case of the immigrants from 
Galicia, and while their numbers are comparatively large the difference in percentage is 
exceedingly small. The predominating tendency is obviously for females to concentrate in 
urban communities to a considerably greater extent than males. The causes of this are 
varied and it is impossible to weigh their relative importance. The following are suggested 
as possible contributories: the rigours of agricultural and pioneer life; the great mobility 
of immigrant males, among whom large numbers either are unmarried or have left their 
families across the seas; types of occupations, railroad building and maintenance, lumbering 
and mining, etc., which take men to the rural parts. From the women's standpoint there is 
areater opportunity for suitable work in urban districts. Such occupations as domestic