MIXED MARRIAGES WITH RELATED STOCKS 139
ES
* wAY{EN OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN STOCKS
JOY PERCEN AGE OF THESE CONTRACTED

TABLE 77.—PERCENTAGE OF MARRIED MEN *N
WHO HAD CONTRACTED MIXED LIA°
WITH PEOPLES FROM THE SAME PART

(As indiaated hv percentages of children born in the Registration Area in 1921).

Origin

North Western Europel...........
South, Eastern and Central European...

Men

mn
Per cent
of total
married
outside
heir own
stock

(2)
Per cent of
Column (1)
married
nto stocks
of same
reographical
group

33-3 |
16-2

18-9
|
39.8

Women
2)
Per cent of
Column (1)
married
into stocks
of same
zeographical
group

(1)
Per cent
of total
married
outside
sheir own
stock

34.3 14-2
13-5 52-2

1 British and French not included.
~ With the North Western group, over 30 p.c., of the men and women had married
outside their respective stocks, and only about 15 p.c. of these had married into races from
the section of Europe from which they came. In striking contrast, those in the South,
Eastern and Central European group show less than half the amount of marriage outside
their individual stocks and between 40 and 50 pe. of that smaller amount has been with
people coming from the same part of Continental Europe. This fact is very significant.
This concludes the analysis of the data on intermarriage, but there ig one further point
which should be mentioned. Little has been said of the proportions of those of British and
French origin who have intermarried. They are the numerically dominant stocks in Canada.
The extent of their intermarriage with those of other origins is limited by their overwhelming
 numbers. But in addition to that, aversion to intermarriage with certain stocks
would also be an important factor in keeping the percentage low. The British and French
themselves may block the assimilation by marriage of certain peoples and sometimes the
onus of preventing intermarriage may rest primarily on the native Canadian stock. It is
a matter of indifference, however, whether foreign stocks fail to marry with the British and
French because of aversion on their own part or on the part of the British and French, or
indeed for any other reason whatever except length of residence. The result is the same
so far as Canadian population structure is concerned. Such stocks are inassimilable in
Canada by marriage, and the preceding analysis suggests that there are many approaching
that class.