PERCENTAGES OF EACH ORIGIN UNDER 10 YEARS OF AGE 213 
inte remem ——trere ere Sm Greil 
TABLE 131—PERCENTAGE OF EACH ORIGIN UNDER 10 YEARS OF AGE, 1921. 
Rank 
Origin 
Jkrainian...... . mown RRR SPRL 
USEPIAN. eevee isin iieeeerra 
TOUMANIAN. «0 eves v ea neeean 
Athuanian.......... Lol 
olish...ooooiviiiiiiiiiiinn, eerie 
RAGE. ovis consvns £1 eee 
ussian.........- wiwintst 
VE Breas HATE Dessert simmerornsuints TREN 
allan... 
Jech............ x ven er EEE SERRE 
Tench. ......ooiiiees aii 
‘erbo-Croatian........ 8 APTA AE he vom 
Torwegian...... HER TEER vom e mmrinn 
ireek........ Cire ereaarrieenaaan 
innigh..... ere reriareenaa, 
DEI son EAA Hamann verre don 
anish....... ee 
BTINAIL. ost tie titties irae anne ennans 
TRUONG. 1a.0 0.0: mie siwiincninin sinha g mae SARTRE Camm 
elglan.......oie 
WOT. ov vue cvuvnis £0 sx aan atatsnne or vmmwenn ve 
WIE. oncumnty GUERARS SARA Eames wrmun ao 
Lr remix SnAg 4 
Habe iericinsviinnan rem EE 
JBBIO. te rrnnnss- Er 
nglish..co........... SER El HE. 
cotch.............. HS I Fate 
UII co wmeasvsarios ssswrstorngs 3 PURINES Bien om 
Bua smn igs SERENE SSEESS fron was 
i AE 
mspecified.......oooiiiiiiiiin ier 
‘hinese im RARE CERES SR 
Per cent 
under 
10 vrs. 
36-60 
35-31 
’5-31 
4-64 
‘3-70 
3-67 
2:91 
2-71 
2-03 
3-1: 
7-83 
7.79 
-40 
-88 
-.83 
3-54 
-98 
+26 
90 
79 
-03 
8° 
5 
By 
+48 
-33 
+96 
1-61 
0-70 
"-31 
)-0C 
4.0" 
£L 
5.18 
Table 132 shows that the North Western Continental group had a proportion under 10 
years of age 18 p.c. greater than that for the British stocks, while the proportion of South, 
Sastern and Central Europeans was 60 pc. larger. The percentages for the Scandinavian 
ind Germanic peoples exceeded that for the British by less than 20 pe. Those for the 
Latin and Greek and Slavie groups were larger by 53 p.c. and 62 p-c. respectively. The 
osercentage for the North Western Europeans stands midway between those for the 
3ritish and French. The South, Eastern and Central Europeans are obviously quite in a 
class by themselves, with a proportion under 10 years one-fifth larger than the French and 
three-fifths larger than the British. } 
Such facts are exceedingly important to the future population structure of Canada, 
as well as to its social and political well-being. The stocks mentioned as having the highest 
percentages under 10 years of age are among the most illiterate in the Dominion. They 
are backward in learning the languages of the country and in erhoo attendance. They 
segregate into colonies, and do not intermarry with the basic Canadian stocks. With one 
or two exceptions, they contribute more than proportionate numbers to our prisons and 
reformatories. Such considerations claim special attention because of the tendency in recent 
years for the South, Eastern snd Central European immigrants greatly to outnumber those 
from the North Western parts of the continent. So long as differential fertility rates persist 
and immigration does its part in keeping the age distribution favourable to fertility, the 
relative contributions of such stocks to future generations will continue to be somewhat 
is depicted in Tables 131 and 132. The subsequent analysis leads one to believe that 
liffering fertility is perhaps the most important cause of the variation in the percentages.