INTERMARRIAGE OF PERSONS OF DIFFERENT ORIGINS 25 
(4) Of equal importance with the general question of assimilability is the ease of 
assimilation with .the basic stocks of the country. Greater differences appear in respect 
to assimilability with the British. A rough index is given by the proportion of men marrying 
outside their respective stocks, who choose wives of British extraction. The disturbing 
influences of sex, length of residence and numerical strength of the several groups are 
thereby greatly reduced. On the basis of mere chance, something over 50 p.c. of the exoga- 
mous marriages would have been contracted with the British. The analysis based on the 
Registration Area of 1921 (that is, all Canada, excluding Quebec) shows that of the men who 
had mamied into other stocks only 4:4 p.c. of the Galicians, 8-9 p.c. of the Ukrainians, 12-6 
p.c. of the Austrians, 14.1 p.c. of the Roumanians, 18:0 p.c. of the Poles and 19.3 p.c. of the 
Russians had married into British stocks, while 82.0 p.c. of the Dutch, 78.7 p.c. of the Ice- 
landers and 68:0¢ p.c. of the Germans had done so. The proportion for the men of the 
Germanic stocks was 70-0 p.c., of the Scandinavian 52-1 p.c., of the Latins and Greeks 47-4 
p.c., and the Slavic 16.8 p.c. The figures for the women were as follows: Germanic stocks, 
69:6 p.c.; Scandinavian, 56-6 p.c.; Latins and Greeks, 17-6 p.e.; and Slavie, 15-3 p.c. (See 
Chart 9.) 
The preference of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples for the British stocks (or the 
preference of the British for them) is clearly brought out, as well as the existence of unusual 
resistance to intermarriage between the Latin and Greek and Slavic peoples, and the British. 
Certain stocks assimilate fairly rapidly in Canada’s “melting pot”; others move slowly, while 
many appear to be practically inassimilable. It is a matter of indifference whether foreign 
people fail to marry with the British and French stocks because of aversion on their own 
part or on the part of the British and French. The result is the same so far as Canada’s 
sopulation structure is concerned. 
Cuarr 1X 
NUMBER or MALES anoFEMALES of FOREIGN ORIGIN MARRIED into 
BRITISH STOCKSas 4 PROPORTION or ie NUMBER MARRIED 
OUTSIDE reir own STOCK; av SET 77 GROUPSorORIGINS 
REGISTRA ¢ 
DRIGIN SROUPS %0 
mo ¥ 
NWesternE ppneeans, 
3, Eastern ano Cent. Eur, 
MEN 
fx 
WOMEN 
SCANDINAVIAN 
SERMANIC 
Latin ann Greek 
A 
Ly 
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5 srdaglod fo em pares c—o gf chgirery Lmrr 17 BTR bent