INTERMARRIAGE WITH BRITISH AND FRENCH 123

Rank

Origin

Juteh.....
Swiss. .......
Janish...........
Jreeks...........
‘ulgarians......
Iotmegien...... -
wedish........
Ferman. ......... -
OE Ms aos veins wow wr
Armenian. ...........
‘celandic.........uuc
talian.........o0eens
Jzechoslovak......
Jelgian........

Per cent
of married
men married
 into
British
stocks

43-4
36-8
34-8
“eC

9.5

Rank

Origin

Serbo-Croatian... ......
RUSSIAN... vrei viarianaansaiinan
TRIB. oo suene vr ou verve we nan ve
Tegro....cooneninns NE —
Polish. ...... © Frain swe
Shinese....... oi EES £6 Sie pe =
oumanian. . S50 8 4 4
Tungarian. .. mds EB En
ewish...... wrt ton wt 5
\ustrian... [IO
PI evrearaees ae
Jkrainian..... sn mmm
Galician.....

Per cent
of married
men married
 into
British
stocks

L
0-6

That the Bulgarians, Italians and Greeks appear in the upper half of the list is attributable
 to the very large surpluses of adult males in Canada. It is significant that the women
of these origins showed such small percentages as 0, 1-4 and 1'0 intermarrying with the
British. Generally speaking, the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples showed a relatively
large amount of intermarrying with the British, while the Slavs show very low percentages.
Were the figures for the women examined a similar distribution would be found. Reasons
for these differences will be discussed in the next section.
Before leaving this phase of the analysis, however, attention is drawn to the absolute
magnitude of the figures. Important as are the differences between the various stocks in
the relative degrees to which they have mixed with British stock, the absolute magnitude
of the proportions is of as great, if not greater, significance, for they indicate the amount
of assimilation by marriage which has already taken place. Assimilation by this means has
made some progress among most of the North Western European peoples. It has scarcely
begun with the South, Eastern and Central Europeans. About one-fifth of the men and
women of Scandinavian and Germanic origin had intermarried with British stock by 1921,
as against less than 3 p.c. of the Slavs. About one-tenth of the Greek and Italian married
men have married with the British, but only one in a hundred of their women have taken
husbands from the British stocks. It is apparent that many of the ingredients in Canada’s
“ melting vot” have not yet begun to dissolve.

TABLE 67.— ~*~ ~ ™*BLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF MARRIEI" Mt.~ ND WOMEN OF CONTI-NeN_
 ~IGIN MARRIED INTO BRITISH STOCKS BY GT.) GRAPHICAL AND LING-UIST.
 Slev us . AS INDICATED BY THE PARENTAGE OF CHILDREN BORN IN THE
REGISTRATION AREA).

Jrigin

NOTth WeStErn TOUTODEAIL. .«..te vse srrs annem senses netsnsetasuiaerassenecsuannaniisnss
South, Eastern and Central European. ........oovvviiiiiiiaiiiieiaiiiiiiiniii nn,
ER RETERR EEE
GermaniC. ..o..eaiiiirrne  -- ee eee eres
Latin and Greek..... FF eae
Slavie..... cs

Men
Per cent
married to
women
of British
oricin

Women
Per cent
married to
men
of British
origin

3.C.

D.C.

21-3! 22-3
4-2 2-1
22-2 24-7
20-5 21-4
10-6 1-3
2.7 94

Intermarriage with those of French Origin—As was pointed out at the beginning, the
ata on intermarriage do not include the province of Quebec. Next to the English speaking
 peoples, however, the French is the largest element numerically in the Registration
Area. Yet it is questionable whether the difference in numbers alone is adequate to account
for the spread between the figures in Table 68, showing the extent of intermarriage of Continental
 European groups with French stock, and those in Table 67 showing intermarriage
of Continental Europeans with the British.