BIRTHPLACES OF THE POPULATION OF THE PROVINCES 91
Chart 27 shows in addition the proportions of foreign born in the population of the
respective provinces in 1921. They rank in the following order: —

Province

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QUEBEC... iii
New Brunswick..................
Nova Scotia... c.ooeveiiinnnnen
Prince Edward Island............. ......
As in the case of the proportions Canadian born and of those born in the British Isles,
there are wide fluctuations in the percentages foreign born in the different provinces. The
four western provinces are in a class quite by themselves. While Ontario ranked with these
provinces in the percentage of her population born in the British Isles, she ranks with
Quebec and the Maritime provinces in the proportion foreign born in her population. From
Manitoba east there is a very marked change in the proportion of foreign immigrants in
the population. The percentage of the lowest of the western provinces is three times as
large as the percentage in Ontario, the highest of the eastern provinces, and the difference
becomes greater as we approach the extremes in each case, Such a marked difference
between east and west in the proportion of foreign born in the population cannot but result
in radical differences in: their attitude towards the problems of government, education and
business.
Another interesting fact is presented in Table 46 when comparing the proportions of
foreign born at the two census dates. In Ontario and eastward there was a higher percentage
foreign born in 1921 than in 1911, while in Manitoba and westward there was a lower percentage
 in 1921 than in 1911. Probably the immigration of United States born to the
cities in the East in recent years and the comparative cessation of immigration of other
foreign born to the western provinces during and subsequent to the war, together with the
dying off of the older immigrants, have an important bearing on these differences.
The proportions of North Western European immigrants in the population of the
various provinces appear below.

Percentage
foreign born
ve. 29-58
. 26-31
19-02
17-91
6-21
4-18
7
2.77
+148

Province

Percentage
bora ia
North Western
Europe
4.53
1-33
246
r.91
73

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NovaScotia.......ooouivuiiiinrannnnnn:
New Brunswiek...................
Prince Edward Island... »
The range of fluctuations is significant in this case also. There is a distinct drop in the
proportion of Northern European born, as in the case of all foreign born, as we pass from
Manitoba to Ontario and eastward. It is interesting to find that Alberta had a higher
proportion of North Western European immigrants in her population than any other
province in the Dominion. The proportion of North Western Euopean birth in 1921 was
lower than in 1911 in all provinces except Prince Edward Island, where the actual numbers
were negligible. The prineipal explanation is arrested immigration.
The relative density of the South, Eastern and Central European born in the various
vrovinces was as follows —

Province
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Saskatchewan............... I EE a oo mee
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New Brunswick,............
Prince Bdward Island

Percentage South, Eastern and
Central European born
1-57

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