ILLITERATE IMMIGRANTS OTHER THAN BRITISH AND FRENCH 171 
Table 106 distributes the Europeans according to geographical and linguistic groups and 
presents these differences even more clearly. The percentage illiterate for the most illiterate 
stock from North Western Europe is approximately half the size of the percentage for the 
least illiterate from South, Fastern and Central Europe. The percentage for the North 
Western European group is 2:66 p.c., while that for the South, Eastern and Central group 
is 22:31 p.c. Such a marked difference is obviously not a matter of chance. 
That illiteracy is to a considerable extent a matter of stocks or origins, is further 
established when an examination is made of the percentages for the linguistic groups. The 
percentage illiterate for the Scandinavian group is the lowest and, with the exception of the 
Swiss and the Dutch, the proportion unable to read and write for each of the Scandinavian 
peoples is lower than that for any other European stock. As a group the Latins and Greeks 
are much more illiterate than either the Scandinavian or Germanic peoples. The percentage 
for the Greeks, the lowest in that group, is approximately twice, and the percentages for 
the Italians and Roumanians about four times greater than that for the Belgians, the 
highest among the Northern Europeans. While there is considerable overlapping of 
percentages between those of Latin and Greek and Slavie origin, the percentage illiterate 
for the Slavs as a group is even higher than that for the Latin and Greek group. The 
figure for the Slavs is increased by the extremely large percentage illiterate among the 
Austrians and Ukrainians, who form a very large proportion of the Slavic immigrants to 
Canada. The percentage for the Czechs is about as low as that for the Greeks, while the 
proportions illiterate among the other Slavic peoples approximate the percentages illiterate 
for the other two Latin and Greek peoples, namely, the Italians and Roumanians. The 
data in Table 105 are presented graphically in Chart 31. 
TABLE 106 —PERCENTAGES ILLITERATE AMANT THF FOREIGN BORN OF THE PRINCIPAL 
SONIA AND NON-FRENCH ORIGINt ’ ‘A. BY GEOGRAPHICAL AND LINGUISTIC 
Origin 
North Western Europe— 
Belgian........... I 
Danish. ..cvoivienieer aevrioniarnaenies 
Geran. «iv viiierivrinerriraneanesranrnan 
TEolandle.. ccvemen on anvmnes wnwvnninvnin vrmeres 
Norwegian. .vouivieiiirieeiirneeiinaninns 
Lo  —— 
Swodish..oovcecnee coors. 
Total..... 
South, Eastern and Central Europe— 
Austrian...... ..iceaeeen- 
Bulgarian... e 
C2eChuiiiiien aes aera 
‘innigh....... ceeneee 
reek. ........ SO ——— 
{ungarian..... CUR EER We 
RR Ap 
Serbo-Croatian. .....ooeeriineiianr our 
POUL see vrrnn enn nes naa ER 
loumanian........c..ee.ns 
Russian......... . ..... 
Ukrainian. ..coovees int cvienneans 
Total. . 
Jercentage 
illiterate 
10 years 
of age 
and over 
4-59 
1-74 
-80 
"8 
16 
) 
1-52 
/7 
9.66 
35-08 
23.56 
11-94 
2-59 
1-59 
5.73 
3-68 
2.79 
4.46 
7-0 
"92 
0 
9: a1 
Origin 
Scandinavian— 
Danish:........ 
Icelandie......- 
Nongeyia. ry 
Swedish....... 
Total... 
Germanic— 
Belgian......... 
German..... 
Dutch... 
Total..... 
Latin and Greek— 
Greek....ooviunes- 
Ttalian...covvivusnoenraner 
ROUMANIAIL. co over cosoeanse 
Total..... 
Slavie— 
Austrian........ 
Bulgarian........ 
Czech. ..coovvnnnr 
Serbo-Croatian.. ...cvear-v —oennns 
2olish...c..v.th 46 ik 0h 
RUSSIAN. ccovnensaersr  -ccrsserasanns 
OJKIAINIAN see enerie rrvevcrsonans: 
Total..... 
Percentage 
illiterate 
10 years 
of age 
and over 
1-74 
3-16 
1-40 
2.47 
1-81 
6-59 
4-90 
1-68 
3.03 
11-50 
23-68 
27-03 
19.4% 
35-08 
23-56 
11-94 
22-72 
24-46 
23-92 
39-46 
24.4F