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Last revised:
20 August 2004


Ethnic origin of Immigrants Admitted to Canada

[1896-1961]

 

Ethnic Origin 1896-1906 1906-1915 1916-1925 1926-1935 1936-1945 1946-1955 1955-1961
British (all)
327,119
926,003
402,348
273,695
45,793
367,705
244,278
Chinese
27
32,295
11,622
7
1
14,104
11,162
French
6,653
18,811
4,713
3,699
1,681
24,152
16,823
German
11,459
27,755
10,891
64,512
2,753
159,207
98,234
Jewish
24,415
52,494
31,284
21,856
3,656
37,474
15,975
Italian
27,786
92,349
20,672
11,828
1,439
135,156
150,573
Japanese
2,282
14,514
6,107
2,479
397
251
952
Black
47
1,246
575
604
161
1,406
4,941
Dutch
1,122
8,758
5,002
7,855
912
114,777
40,773
Polish
42,358
67,262
18,213
35,187
2,288
61,568
17,842
Russian
16,046
81,770
10,976
5,153
560
7,709
1,212
Ukrainian
269
59,861
3,671
57,719
5,663
34,335
2,106
American
259,332
730,328
313,499
180,945
56,043
90,752
65,732
East Indian
432
5,145
178
515
62
1,139
3,238
All Origins
836,597
2,278,396
915,943
817,706
133,238
1,222,319
854,600

 

Source: constructed from data provided in Immigration Statistics Year 1896 to 1961, Statistics Section, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 1961.

© 2007 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College