ORIGINS OF REFORMATORY POPULATION
183
small in numbers in Canada, would have an insignificant influence on the rate for the
total. So before arriving at any definite conclusion, an examination must be made of the
relation between origins and reformatory population.
TABLE 113.—REFORMATORY POPULATION IN CANADA, BY ORIGIN AND BIRTHPLACE, 1921.
Origin
Total......... wan anE
English. .....coveeaunans
Irish......oiennnennnen]
S11] «SO
Welsh.....coovenrunnnisd!
Pranah.. como suse «
ARBUEEON, vos vuvvnvrsnuss
Balghm..ovuvruvavmsve s
Bulgarian.........eevee.
RINese, 0 qv vs svenins
I
[D7:1 11] : VE
Jutch..ooiivviieninnian
innish..uociviiaiiiee..
SFOTIOAM. ve vvvnrnarnrnss
reek. iii,
Tebrew....c.ooveevnnen.
Jungarian..............
[celandic....oivinnenn...
BU hy srnine sonnei
SUB. vio saan atin
"ADANESO, veri iriianias
dthuanian..............
JBETO. . cevvvirennrannns
Jorwegian....oocveuenn.
ONEN ia rnanmineriis
LOUMANIAN. .vuurraasns
BOREIR. susie sins nei
Swedish................
Jerbo-Croatian..........
WISB. ihrer niin
YAN eee
Tkrainian. ......cv00venn
Jnspecified.............
VAIIOUS. oor vee renee.
Canadian-born Immigrant-born
Number Number Number
Total in reform- ‘Total in reform-! Total in reformreform-
Total atories | reform- Total atories reform- Total atories
atory population|per 100,000] atory |populationiper100,000] atory |population|per 100,000
opulation| 10-20 yrs 'population{population| 10-20 yrs.|population|population| 10-20 yrs. [population
10-20 yrs. 10-20 yrs. 10-20 yrs.
2,413 © 1,861,626
130
1,767
1,559,839
113
846
301,687 |
122,211
20, 634
11,818
18,406
6.511 '
2.566
2,621
890
1,369
345
2,100 !
14,865 |
16,737
1,120
570
2,831
5.988
738
379
3,232
744
+009
9.259
22109
241
al
43
214
834
210
22
13
59¢
Se
497,577
218,379
223,587
7,763
602,223
23,230
4,367
146
3,353
2,120
4,201
25,206
4,410
65,913
540
32,708
3,146
3,551
29,372
11,883
1,291
390
2,655
+783
373
"66
165
168
06
100
167 |
99
159
23
685
268
59:
150
15¢
57
375,366
197,745
181,769
385,817
16,719
1,801
732
1,230
2,382
21,756
2,310 |
51.048
15,971
?,02¢
., 981
2% 741
© 595
‘59
158
76
85
98
54
242
60
70
8
2¢
28
198
201
167
122
430
39
205
5
2
&
C
137
LC
Pa
4
2
11:
14
84
80
530
0
370
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8;
864
24
427
396
508
32
0
227
e
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¢
The reader is referred to Table 114 (p. 186), which groups the reformatory population
of European origin by geographical and linguistic classes. This table presents the
distribution of reformatory population in respect of origin only and neglects birthplace
entirely. The data so classified are of interest because they show the proportions of the
different stocks which, under conditions existing in 1921, were confined in Canadian reformatories.
It should be kept in mind, however, that the differences are by no means entirely
due to origin; nativity and probably other factors enter in.
The situation in 1921 was briefly as follows. The proportion of children of North
Western European stocks in reformatories in Canada was 36 per 100,000, that of the South,
Eastern and Central European 184, or a rate five times greater. Passing to the linguistic
classifications, the rates for the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples were by far the lowest.
They were about one-fifth that for the Slavic group and one-tenth that for the Latins and
Greeks. Or put conversely, the number per 100,000 Latin and Greek children in reforma~
tories in Canada, was over ten times as great as the number per 100,000 Scandinavians,
and almost ten times as great as the rate for the Germanic children. Taking birthplace as
in 1921, the problem of the Latin and Greek children, in proportion to their numbers, was
therefore approximately ten times greater than that of the children of Germanic and Scandinavian
origin.
The rate for the Slavic group was 166 or 22 p.c. higher than that for the English
speaking peoples and some 70 p.c. higher than that for the French people. Even at that,
however, it is not as high as it should be, because no returns are shown for the Ukrainians.
A little less than a third of the children in the Slavic group in ‘Canada are of Ukrainian
origin, yet not one appears in the origin records for the reformatories. The Ukrainian
