148 THE NATURALIZATION OF IMMIGRANT PEOPLES 
average country in the lower half of the table was only 39-4 p.c. When the proportions of 
40-5 p.c. urban for the average country in the upper section, and 55.9 p.c. urban for the 
average country in the lower section, are compared with the averages for Column 1, & high 
percentage naturalized (65.0 p.c.) is associated with a comparatively small percentage urban 
(40-5 p.c.) and a low percentage naturalized (39-4 p.c.) with a high percentage urban 
(55:9 p.c.). Of course, there are many exceptions where extraneous forces arrest or intensify 
the operation of urban influences on naturalization. There seems to be little doubt, however, 
that, on the whole, the tendency has been for the countries whose immigrants have shown 
a higher percentage living in urban districts in Canada, to have a smaller proportion 
naturalized and vice versa. This conclusion seems to go hand in hand with the thesis 
established in the earlier part of this section that urban life per se is comparatively unfavour- 
able to naturalization. 
TABLE 85.—PERCENTAGE OF FOREIGN BORN (1) NATURALIZED AND (2) URBAN, IN CANADA, BY 
COUNTRY OF BIRTH, 1921. 
Country of Birth 
Total Foreign Born... 
[goland. cueivien connns . FT —— 
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MOTWRAY svivns 43 £oresns SErssme Mme Srnvivl urmapersne 
BWOHON. 1,0 4045 €hAUIRAIAD FRAERES HEREIRS CAMBER TF SHARIA LE ORANY 13 
XOrmany...ceveennn- BEAR A FRRERS SAFER SEPA 
Jalicia...ooovvn.ns prt ans INERT FARRAR EE 
Tnited States. oe... vriiiiieririivi iii rire raeaneas 
BRI Shuman soain 50 ERATRIRI STII SARIN SEIS SRN AThS ANE 
LOUMBIIN s04 03 avis swmpramas srrwevs sxavers vunsnve ses on veirss sebts 
ANBDIB cova 45 HarinEs eS FTES Se Ee a wae wk 
BMT RL sis 4 ERE ERE CORERERS DERE RE CRE Srey See 
CIONIABEE cerns rs ra witn Shr daRI ILE EORE LEERY PER NES SE ER 
Jzechoslovakia... cui vsiiiriiuniiiie iii ries 
MADOG «vn nvervrnwnenrnmmnns vasstas Loss nin 
Tron. copes srmrmmsmmmivis sono vivmmes 
witzepland.. cores vessrirerss snvmnne xem 
MAR rvmnne prvmmmeis spams examen win 
UrKeYee. cuennine SH EHEC $1 Cees .. 
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J 1 1 + FERS FERRE WF DRT 5 
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POU: caus owns wo wine wiv Siw wsiennae SOAS RISE Wg 
Bulgaria... . oo we We ws _— [A PP 
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Average for first 13......- 
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(1) (2) 
P.c. P.c. 
naturalized! Urban 
7.0 
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39-4 
PERCENTAGES NATURALIZED BY SEX 
Table 86 shows the percentage of males and females naturalized by countries of birth. 
At first glance it may appear singular that in every country except Iceland and Syria a 
arger proportion of the females than of the males have become Canadian citizens. Yet 
shat is only to be expected. The foreign born females in Canada over 15 years of age show a 
percentage married some 17 p.c. greater than do the males of the same age group, and it is 
zenerally conceded that married immigrants with homes and families are much more 
sermanent settlers and should normally show a higher percentage naturalized. It is to be 
semembered also that females are naturalized by the mere fact of marriage with a Canadian 
citizen. 
A word in reference to the two exceptions mentioned above will not be out of place. 
The case of the Syrians is unimportant, for their numbers are very small in Canada, but 
she figure for the Icelanders, showing a smaller proportion of females naturalized than of 
males, is remarkable. It is recalled, however, that Icelandic immigration is unique in other 
respects and in particular as to the relative number of males and females in the population. 
[t is the one important country from which the numbers of females in Canada was greater 
in 1921 than the number of males. That being the case, there is probably a small surplus 
of unattached females which accounts for the lower percentage of that sex naturalized, just