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Unlike the British born immigrants, a large percentage of those from the United States
was found in agriculture. Over 50 p.c. of employed males of United States birth were on
the farms in Canada in 1921—a proportion 20 p.c. greater than that of the Canadian born
male population and over twice that for the British born. The French, Germanic and Scandinavian
 immigrants from the United States are almost exclusively agricultural people, and
probably a larger proportion of the British born in the United States are agriculturists
than of those coming directly from the British possessions or the British Isles. Immigrants
from no other nativity group showed such a large percentage employed in agriculture as
is shown by the United States born male immigrants in Canada. All other industries,
except mining, quarrying and domestic and personal service, claimed a smaller proportion
of the United States born immigrants than of the Canadian born.
The European born males as a group are also largely engaged in agriculture, although
not to such a marked degree as the United States born. That statement does not apply
to the immigrants from all European countries; it applies merely to the total, and if
reference be made to the rural and urban distribution of Europeans in Canada in Chapter V
it will be seen that there are many specific European nationalities for whom the reverse is
true. The Hebrews and Poles, for example, from South, Eastern and Central Europe are
exceptionally urban people. The Italians and Greeks are also among the most urban
settlers. What is true of Europeans in general, however, is true of the Austrians and
Russians and Ukrainians, who are largely rural, as are also the Scandinavian and Germanic
people. It is unfortunate that the work involved in classifying the European group by
occupation and specific countries of birth is so great, for such a table would be especially
enlightening. However, by comparing the tables on occupational distribution for Europeans
as a whole with those showing rural and urban distribution for specific peoples in Chapter V,
a general idea of occupational distribution may be obtained for a number of the individual
immigrant peoples from various parts of Europe. It is pointed out in passing that a large
proportion of the European born, as compared with the Canadian born males, was employed
in the mining industries of the country.
The Asiatic males, like those from the British Possessions, were not engaged in agyicultural
 employments to a very marked extent in 1921. The logging and fishing and trapping
occupational groups claimed a disproportionate share of such immigrants, as did the wood
and paper manufacturing industries and especially the domestic and personal services. The
occupational distribution of the Asiatics is unique in this respect. A comparatively few
industries claim the great majority of Oriental male immigrants. These immigrants showed
89 large a proportion in domestic and personal services as the Canadian born had in
agriculture, and only a slightly smaller proportion in wood and paper manufacturing than
the Canadian born had in all manufacturing industries. A careful study of Table 127
will be abundantly repaid.
The material is presented by industries in graphic form in Chart 33. It is seen
that the United States immigrants are by far the most agricultural of all incoming peoples,
and that the Continental Europeans as a group stand second. The proportion in agriculture
for both of these immigrant groups is greater than that of the Canadian born miles.
The least agricultural are the Asiatics and those from the British Possessions. Immigrants
from the British Isles, though showing a larger proportion of males following agricultural
pursuits than either the Asiatics or those from the British Possessions, rank far behind the
Canadian born males in this respect and very much farther behind the other European
and United States born settlers. The chart also shows the different proportions of the
males of specified nativity in all extractive industries combined. What is said of agriculture
applies to the extractive industries as a whale.
In the iron and steel manufacturing and the construction and transportation groups,
immigrants from the British Isles and British Possessions lead. The European born show
about. as large a proportion as the Canadian born, and those from the United States considerably
 lower. The proportion of Asiaties in all three industries, with the exception of
transportation, is negligible. The case of transportation is explained largely by the use
of Chinese labour for maintenance work in the mountains, The section of the chart dealing
with the groups of industries under the heading “Trade” is unique in that the variation