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great. Other European stocks increased relatively four times as rapidly as did the British 
between 1901 and 1911, and constituted in 1921 almost twice as large a proportion of our 
population as they did in 1901. The Asiatics increased three times as fast relatively as the 
British stocks in the first decade of the century. Increases in the foreign content of the 
Canadian population were not so great in the last decade, chiefly on account of arrested immi- 
gration. With economic readjustment in Europe, however, joined to the United States’ 
policy of exclusion, immigration, it is expected, will be renewed, with probable further shift- 
ing in the balance of the different stocks in Canada. It will be shown below that such an 
event will be hastened by abnormally high rates of natural increase, especially among the 
peoples from Southern, Eastern and Central Europe. 
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(1) In 1921, 97 p.c. of the French and three-quarters of the British stocks were Canadian 
born. The Dutch, Germans, Swiss and Icelanders from the North and West of Europe, and 
she Ukrainian, Austrian, Polish and Russian peoples from the South, East and Central parts 
of the Continent, showed proportions Canadian born ranging from 50 p.c. to 80 p.c., the figure 
for the Germanic group being the highest. Though the Slavs and the Latins and Greeks both 
showed larger proportions Canadian born than the Scandinavians, a relatively large propor- 
tion of the latter group was born in the United States, so that from the standpoint of date 
of arrival on this continent, the Scandinavians with the Germanic peoples belong to the 
sder immigration. 
(2) While the Germanic and Scandinavian stocks from the North and West of Europe 
generally may be regarded as the older settlers on this continent, and the Latin and Greek 
and Slavic peoples as on the whole the more recent arrivals, it should be borne in mind 
‘hat there are exceptions to any such general rule. The Belgians from North Western 
Europe are recent arrivals, while the Austrians, Czechs and Russians from Central and 
Eastern Europe show almost as small proportions born outside Canada and the United 
States as some of the stocks classed among the older immigrants. 
(3) Passing to the proportions of our total population Canadian born and born outside 
of Canada, there has been a marked decrease in the proportion Canadian born and a cor- 
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