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Statistical Material and Charts

 

Last revised:
23 August 2000


Emigration to the United States from Canada and Quebec, 1840-1940

Period

Canadian emigration

Rate of Emigration (%)

Quebec Emigration

Rate of Emigration

Quebec as % of Canadian Emigration

1840-1850

75 000

4,3

35 000

5,4

47

1850-1860

150 000

7

70 000

7,8

47

1860-1870

300 000

10,7

100 000

10 (est)

33

1870-1880

375 000

11

120 000

10,1

32

1880-1890

450 000

11,3

150 000

11,3

33

1890-1900

425 000

9,7

140 000

9,6

33

1900-1910

325 000

6,4

100 000

6

31

1910-1920

250 000

4

80 000

4

32

1920-1930

450 000

6

130 000

5,6

29

1930-1940

25 000

0,3

-

-

-

1840-1940

2 800 000

900 000

32

Source: Yolande Lavoie, L’émigration des Québécois aux Etats-Unis de 1840 à 1930, Quebec, 1981, 68p., p. 53.

© 1999 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College