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 |
