164 THE LANGUAGE OF IMMIGRANT PEOPLES 
TABLE 99 —NUMBERS AND PERCENTAGES OF PRINCIPAL NON-BRITISH AND NON-FRENCH 
ORIGINS, 10 YEARS AND OVER, IN CANADA, WHO HAD ACQUIRED ENGLISH BY 1991. 
Jrigin 
SUBIR. ovo iicins 10 porns connie 
Bolglon. unos sunanmsneins 0 sane 
Jzechoslovak................... 
danish.........oooieeiiiiiii.. 
Juteh...........o.ll 
Yianish. oi 
FOTDAN. ..uvevintnnianninnns 
reek... ..oooiiiiiii 
Tungarian............ ; 
.celandic............. g 
‘talian............ . 
Ld . 
Jorwegian, ......... ....... 
olish................. ... 
loumanian........... 
lussian............... 
‘wedish.............. 
III cnscionsrsrnaans sone 
Syrian......... 
Jkrainian.... 
@ 
Total 
0 years 
and 
aver 
59, 653 
5,416 
6,351 
15,798 
38,381 
15,795 
21,280 
201 
qe 
2) 
Number 
unable 
0 speak 
Pnelish 
12,72¢ 
2,631 
40¢ 
22 
6, 82° 
2.339 
920 
‘1 
1) 
Number 
speaking 
English 
18 mother 
Longue 
2,39¢ 
3,852 
657 
4,91’ 
63, 78° 
z 
101.4 
4) 
Number 
who did 
10% Speak 
English 
1s mother 
tongue 
5] 
47) edi 
17,562 
5, 89% 
10, 881 
4,599 
15,325 
-00, 843 
842 
46° 
fer 
5 
uty het 
5) 
Number 
who had 
icquired 
Tnelish 
3 
$4,52¢ 
£,926 
5,284 
10, 660 
17,776 
17,986 
Ir, 623 
526 
346 
£32 
269 
(8) 
Per cent 
of those 
10t knowing 
English 
28 mother 
tongue 
who had 
sequired it 
77 
9° 
0g. 
72: 
an 
Pp 
82° 
97-¢ 
93-8 
90-0 
73.6 
The significance of the above table becomes clearer when the percentages in Column 6 
are arranged in descending order of magnitude. 
[ABLE 100.—PERCENTAGES OF PRINCIPAL ORIGINS, 10 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER, WHC DID 
NOT KNOW ENGLISH AS THE MOTHER TONGUE BUT HAD LEARNED IT BY 1921. 
Origin 
Norwegian.......... Cevenaies 
Danish......c....... .. or ps ina we wpm 
Swedish. .ov.eviiienniinininnn. © . 
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TOWEBI. cusp ppnmnnn Evme as £30 #4 vi 
cp WEEE ON SI 
Czechoslovak.........ooiiiiiiin ii 
gelandic..........oiiiiii ieee 
8 {CT OP . 
Syrian... ....ociiieen 
Jungarian..........oooioiiiii . 8 . 
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POLS. «evr reaeesanesnnensen eerie 2 tenn ston sown v— 
ne a 
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ATBEPIIL. + sv va sva train ans oh hs ee sh rer ts mmmnsnt mare eter smn ne enannns onan ene neon rs roan rv. 
galian. ora ERO 
Jkrainian..... ol do _ 
Dutek 
P.e. 
98-4 
98-0 
97-7 
26. 
n,¢ 
>. 
N= North Western, S= Southern, E =Eastern European stocks. 
The figure of 77-1 p.c. for the Belgians is omitted for the reason referred to in connec~ 
ion with the previous tables, viz, some 40 p.c. of those classed as of that origin speak 
French as the mother tongue and many of them have not learned English because they 
already knew one of the official languages of the country. To the extent that the Belgians 
know French, they are linguistically assimilated in Canada though they may be ignorant of 
“nglish. 
Table 98 indicates the actual extent to which assimilation in the matter of language had 
nken place; Tables 99 and 100 show the extent to which those who did not speak English in 
the home, had learned that language outside the home,—in school or in business. The 
capital letters following the origin names indicate roughly the part of Europe from which 
:he several stocks have come. The predominance of “N’s” in the top part of the table is 
balanced by the predominance of “E's” in the lower part. Not only do marked differences