114 URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION OF VARIOUS STOCKS 
urban. The same applies to the Negroes, with almost 36 p.c. of their population in the 
large cities. While the British, Polish and Roumanian peoples show proportions higher 
than the population as a whole, the differences are not of great magnitude. 
These figures throw a rather interesting light on the experience of many of the large 
cities in the United States and certain of the larger cities in Canada. Those stocks which 
gravitate to the larger centres to en abnormal extent are very often found in quarters or 
wards. There are Jewish sections, Italian sections, Chinese sections and Negro sections in 
a great many of the larger cities on this continent. One does not hear of a Scandinavian 
quarter or of a Dutch or German section of a city nearly so frequently. Segregation of 
particular stocks has grave social and political consequences wherever it occurs, and this 
tendency of certain foreign stocks to concentrate in the large cities of ‘Canada is significant 
rom the standpoint of assimilation. 
TABLE 56.—PER CENT OF SPECIFIED ORIGINS IN CITIES OF 25,000 AND OVER IN CANADA, 1921. 
NWorke.—The percentage of the total population in such cities was 25-42, 
Alphabetic arrangement 
Origins ' Po. 
BPD. covivns suniis testis sisi 6 2 
Fremch........ocovivviviiine © eine. 
LUE T:) OSU 
Belgian. oo oveiniiiie eee 
ChINESE.....cuiiai ieee aes 
SOS euyunaee sein Breanes £6 Sr ape GATES 
dinnish....... . eens 
Greek......... . eee. en 
PLEIMOT cans smininy on wmv me 
Aangorii, ions wn srewies vse Sse 
welandic......... ., hh FAA 0 4 fo 
dian. o.oo... FO .. 
talian........ Cees . 
[apanese......... PN . 
Negro......... - 
Norwegian. ... we 
Zolish.......... p 
Roumanian..... 2 
Russian......... 
Serbo-Croatian... on 
Swedish............ .. 
SWiss.....ouiiiiinas wore Be Se 
BEEN, os oo srvvi on sowmisms & gig 4 S095 £0 S0TY 
BUONO, vo svunininy vo vuons 4 suess 6 Trine 
FIANEINg. Cuunuins 2000005 Ea aN be 5 S05 ne miner d 
Ruthenian. .....ooovvieiiiiiiiiiannnin nnn, 
Ukrainian. ..ooovvieieiiniiaiiiinaens 
Unspecified... ..........ocoiiiiiiiniiii 
Various. .. ove 
26-17 
9-48 
2.94 
7-20 
4-87 
0-80 
7-82 
1-84 
r.ge 
@. 2 
2.€ 
Le 
ae 
Le 
24. Kn 
Arrangement according to rank 
Origins ' Pe. | Rank 
Hebrew........cooooviiiiiiiiiiin 
Greek.....oouvei iin 
Chinese.............oceveen.. a 
ByrItiovs covinan wo mnmmunn spicy #4 
NOBID.conss i, uns 4 Prawn © 4 ya 
Various. vans vo iain © i . 
Unspecified................ . 
Japanese............. y 
British............... ” . 
1 N———— ‘ 
doumanian.................. 4 
Serbo-Croatian. .....c.cooovinnvnen. 
PEON 10 55500 vr dr rockon BE BRA 2h 5 ren 
Danish.............. FO 
SWISS. eee aa 
Belgian. ........oviiiiiiii iia a 
gelandlo..ccovaiv crime on ae ve as 
salician....... ~ 
\ustrian....... + EE wie 
‘ussian....... SRS Be ee 
Yuteh........... oo co 
Jutheniam................. Cee ee 
lungarian...... wo wv 
EBON ovis woein wav wn wm www po won 
Swedish............. si 
IBN eater a Hi 
Ierman..........oooo. FT 
Jkrainian........ooooiel een 
Norwegian................ FR 
Finnish. o.oo as 
Bukovinian = oo 
-08 
4-20 | 
17-92 
4-87 
41-85 
"5-97 
C88 
*-06 
5° 
-17 
-10 
-18 
1-63 
-45 
82 
64 
29 
-06 
-34 
1-24 
-14 
+84 
-85 
+98 
*-80 
)-11 
+53 
+39 
-38 
55 
L-96 
2.66 
1 
2 
aq 
Le 
Table 57 arranges the data by gecgraphical and Table 58 by linguistic classification. 
The percentages for all Northern Furopeans in cities of 25,000 inhabitants and over are 
less than for the population as a whole. In the case of the Norwegians and Germans a 
tendency to avoid large cities is most marked. With the exception of the Greeks, the 
[talians, the Poles and the Roumanians, all the South Eastern Europeans likewise show 
smaller proportions in the large cities in Canada than does the total population. Of the 
South, Eastern and Central Europeans, the Finns, the Ukrainians, the Czechs and Hun- 
garians avoid the larger cities to an unusual extent. The percentages for Asiatic peoples 
are all higher than for the population of Canada as a whole. 
Turning to Table 58 we find that irregularity in the data makes generalization difficult. 
The general levels of the Scandinavian and Germanic groups are practically the same, and 
with the exception of the Poles and the Serbo-Croatians, the tendency to concentrate in 
large cities is probably about as small among the Slavic peoples in Canada as among the 
Scandinavian and Germanic. On the other hand, the percentages of the Latin ‘and Greek 
stocks in large cities are exceedingly high, except for the Roumanians, to whom reference 
has already been made. Of the Scandinavians, the Norwegians show the greatest aversion 
to large cities; of the Germanic group, the Germans; and of the Slavic group, the Ukrainians. 
The Poles appear to be different from other Slavie peoples in this respect. With a ficture