NATURALIZATION OF IMMIGRANTS FROM THE UNITED STATES 143 
TABLE 81 ~PERCENTAGE OF EUROPEAN BORN NATURALIZED, BY LINGUISTIC GROUPS, 1921 
Groups and countries of birth 
Percentage 
naturalized 
Groups and countries of birth 
Percentage 
naturalized 
0.C. 
.C. 
Scandinavien— 
Toland... covvcwn vo maw vo swbames snwsvnn on 
Norway... covsvan rvvsenn vu sree rownes win 
Bowdon. Lovises voomei on nani ram 
Denmark. ... 
86-4 
71.7 
67-4 
R&-3 
Latin and Greek— . 
ROUMANIA. .ovvecvvrirnrasracernnranaens 
GITEEOR. ov uve ere eunnninonnrmrensannns 
AVETage....covivraerinarss corens 
Slavie— 
TEAUCE, cymuran on srnmnas smvmmass swiss vit 1m 
Buss, inins 5 sian on sues ou wainas swe 
AUStIiB. oo... iii irre 
Czechoslovakia, .......oocevveuiinirnnnns 
Ukraine. ..o.ovveee iia ianiaaannes 
Poland. ......ooiiiiiii iii 
Jugo-Blavia. ...cvcveriiiiiariaiiiniane, 
Bullish, oo oe see eraenr sr ansracenanos 
60-5 
30-2 
29-3 
41-3 
65-3 
82-4 
59-4 
55-7 
54.7 
51-0 
33.7 
22-4 
59:9 
Average........ooveur-- . 
Germanic— 
GOTINADY cv vevrenreaerencnreirnanrsanns 
Netherlands..............covvininiinnnnn 
Boalgium..cv suvvme coves ees 
AVEINEO, vos comin Savseny Srupemsvs 
69.7 
65-9 
48-4 
12.1 
56.5 
AVeTrage. ...v.uiean. eevee! 
NATURALIZATION AMONG IMMIGRANT PEOPLES FROM THE UNITED STATES 
Data on the naturalization of the United States born immigrants are presented by origin 
in Column 1 of Table 82 (p. 145). Those of French origin show the highest proportion. This 
fact is not unexpected, in view of the rather marked movement of the children of French 
Canadian emigrants to the Eastern and Southern States back to the Canadian soil, and 
especially to the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick. The Icelandic stock, with a 
proportion of 73-4 p.c. naturalized, ranks second, and the Norwegians, Roumanians, British, 
Swedish and Hungarians follow closely behind in the order named. The Greeks and Italians 
again appear at the foot of the list. 
But the significance of this table is not so much in the rank of the various stocks as 
in a comparison between the United States born immigrants and the foreign immigrants 
who come directly to Canada from their ancestral home, without a generation of residence 
in the United States. Column 2 shows the percentage of the immigrant population natural- 
ized in 1921 by countries of birth, corresponding to the specified origins. In a previous 
chapter, the difficulties involved in comparing data of origin and country of birth data were 
discussed, and the reader is recommended to refer again to page 68, Chapter III, before 
proceeding further. 
Were the two columns of percentages strictly comparable, one would expect the United 
States born to have assimilated to a much greater extent than those coming from other 
foreign countries. A Swede, for instance, born and brought up in the United States, 
attending the schools of the republic and speaking the English language, would seem much 
more easily assimilated than one coming direct from Sweden, speaking a different language 
and trained under a different educational system. Other things being equal, one would look 
for the percentages in column 3 to be normally positive and of considerable magnitude. 
That result obviously does not obtain in about half of the cases, and the problem presents 
itself as to whether a generation of residence in the United States is favourable or unfavour- 
able to naturalization for immigrants of foreign stocks coming to Canada. 
Table 83 shows the differences, by linguistic groups, in the percentages naturalized of 
United States born immigrants of European stocks and the percentages of immigrants 
naturalized who have come direct from the countries corresponding to the specified origins. 
It is pointed cut that the percentages are negative for all the Scandinavians, which means 
that a smaller percentage of the Scandinavians born in the United States and emigrated to 
Canada have become Canadian citizens, than immigrants who have come direct from the 
Scandinavian countries. The same remark applies io the Dutch and Germans in the 
(Germanic group and to the Austrians, Poles and Russians among the Slavs. It will be seen 
also by referring to the previous table that negative percentages obtained in the cases of 
the Hungarians, Swiss and Syrians. In the Latin and Greek group, on the other hand, those