MIXED MARRIAGES WITH BRITISH STOCK 137
The capital letters in the above table indicate roughly the part of Europe from which
the different peoples come. The predominance of ‘ N's’, signifying Northern Europe, in the
upper half of the table where the percentages of those intermarried with the British stocks
are high, is as significant as is the predominance of ‘E's’ for Eastern and Central Europe in
the lower part of the table. The inference is very clear. The people from South, Central
and Eastern Europe, not only have not intermarried as much as those from North Western
Europe, but those who have intermarried, with one or two exceptions, have not married to
any great extent into the British stocks. This important fact is presented more clearly in
Table 74 below.
In the North Western European group, over one-third of both men and women had
intermarried and from 64 p.c. to 65 p.c. of these had married into stocks of British origin.
By way of contrast, the South, Eastern and Central Europeans had intermarried only to the
extent of from 13-5 p.c. (women) to 16:2 pe. (men), and of these smaller percentages,
roughly from a fifth to a quarter had married men and women of British extraction. It is
obvious that the North Western Europeans in Canada are several times more easily
assimilated with the British stocks than are the South, Central and Eastern Europeans.

TABLE 74—PER CENT OF MIXED MARRIAGES CONTRACTED BY CONTINENTAL EUROPEANS WITH
MEN AND WOMEN OF BRITISH ORIGIN, BY GEOGRAPHICAL GROUPING.

(As indicated by parentage of children born in the Registration Area in 1021)

Origin

North Western BEuropean—
Belgion...ovoueeeeireraeresnrisesrirasstasianeeasaoraarrasnraens
Danish...oves cvviiiiiiieiiir irae. 1.43 U4 FREE ve
Carman... ovovis ve ivvivns A
[celandic................ SHE Pe RERAS NTB RA AIR WAIHI pin
Norwegian............ WT Sth FORA 4%
Swedish....... »
Swiss. ....

Total.

South, Eastern and Central Buropean—
Austrian. .....ooviiiniiannn. rare eae rian
Bulgarian................ fh RTA a EAT
CaerhiosloVak, po vo vv coun wu mares wn sais wn wun SPP——
FIARR pve vas = wimps = sup gy syoogs wan pe
Galician......... SHEER SEES BF BY EEE DRIRRES £4) be aw
PINOY vos rnrmnds (CHR #3 SAREE 6 HERD TH EUERRE § win
BR 7 1
OIE. Love rerrec reine tr eases aeeraeen rues
ROUINBIIAIL. «av ss vrs eeansessnnrssnnessnarssrasnesoe cn sans
TRUSBIEIL, . os cri cues anins 08 Swe wo Swevainn saws ey wR ay
Serbo-Croatian... .. .- womerg
Ukrainian ...

Total

1
Per cent
married
outside
to total
married

28-2
74-2
53-0
24-8
18-7
41-3
44-6
72.7

33-3

10-6
48.5
34-5
9-2
in.

Men

Women
@
Per cent
of col. (1)
married
into
British
atocks

(2)
Per cent
of col. (1.
married
into
British
atocka

n
Per cent
married
outside
to total
married

33.6 28-9
16-4 62-2
82-0 | 50-8
68-0 27-3
78-7 50-4
54-8 {13
48-3 45-3
RN.0 RT

39-1
63-4
79-2
68-6
73-5
52-3
54:5
RG.5

[I

24.3

85-2

Of’

0
5
9

11-2
0
25-5
29-9
30-3
9-1
21:5
55-6
20-2
5:3
20-9
25-0
5-6
16-9

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Table 75 presents the data for the Continental Europeans by linguistic divisions. A
careful study of this table will repay the reader. Suffice it to say that the preference of the
Germanic and Scandinavian peoples for the British (or the preference of the British for
them) is brought out clearly, as well as the existence of unusual resistance to intermarriage
between those of Latin and Greek and Slavie origin and the British.
A very small proportion of the non-whites cross the colour line in marriage. When
they do, the extent to which they marry into stocks of British origin varies. It is significant
that in all cases the percentage of men crossing the colour line who married into the