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 over- 
whelming 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.