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Racial origins of the population, census years 1871 to 1941, with percentage distribution for 1941

Racial origins of the population, census years 1871 to 1941, with percentage distribution for 1941
	1871¹	1881	1901	1911	1921	1931	1941
	number							%
British Isles races	2,110,502	2,548,514	3,063,195	3,999,081	4,868,738	5,381,071	5,715,904	49.68
English	706,369	881,301	1,260,899	1,871,268	2,545,358	2,741,419	2,968,402	25.80
Irish	846,414	957,403	988,721	1,074,738	1,107,803	1,230,808	1,267,702	11.02
Scottish	549,946	699,863	800,154	1,027,015	1,173,625	1,346,350	1,403,974	12.20
Other	7,773	9,947	13,421	26,060	41,952	62,494	75,826	0.66
Other European races	1,322,813	1,598,386	2,107,327	3,006,502	3,699,846	753,242	526,964	48.03
French	1,082,940	1,298,929	1,649,371	2,061,719	2,452,743	927,990	483,038	30.27
Austrian	-	-	10,947²	44,036	107,671	48,639	37,715	0.33
Belgian	-	-	2,994	9,664	20,234	27,585	29,711	0.26
Bulgarian	-	-	-	-	1,765	3,160	3,260	3.00
Czech and Slovak	-	-	-	-	8,840	30,401	42,912	0.37
Danish	*	*	*	*	21,124	34,118	37,439	0.33
Finnish	-	-	2,502	15,500	21,494	43,885	41,683	0.36
German	202,991	254,319	310,501	403,417	294,635	473,544	464,682	4.04
Greek	39	-	291	3,614	5,740	9,444	11,692	0.10
Hungarian	-	-	1,549³	11,648³	13,181	40,582	54,598	0.47
Icelandic	*	*	*	*	15,876	19,382	21,050	0.18
Italian	1,035	1,849	10,834	45,963	66,769	98,173	112,625	0.98
Jewish	125	667	16,131	76,199	126,196	156,726	170,241	1.48
Lithuanian	-	-	-	-	1,970	5,876	7,789	0.07
Netherlander	29,662	30,412	33,845	55,961	117,505	148,962	212,863	1.85
Norwegian	-	-	*	*	68,856	93,243	100,718	0.88
Polish	-	-	6,285	33,652	53,403	145,503	167,485	1.45
Roumanian	-	-	354⁴	5,883⁴	13,470	29,056	24,689	0.21
Russian	607⁵	1,227	19,825	44,376	100,064	88,148	83,708	0.73
Scandinavian	1,623	5,223	31,042	112,682	**	**	**	-
Swedish	*	*	*	*	61,503	81,306	85,396	0.74
Ukrainian	-	-	5,682	75,432	106,721	225,113	305,929⁶	2.66
Yugoslavic	-	-	-	-	3,906	16,174	21,214	0.18
Other	3,791	-	5,174	6,756	16,180	6,232	6,527	0.06
Asiatic races	4	4,383	23,731	43,213	65,914	84,548	74,064	0.64
Chinese	-	4,383	17,312	27,831	39,587	46,519	34,627	0.30
Japanese	-	-	4,738	9,067	15,868	23,342	23,149	0.20
Other	4	-	1,681	6,315	10,459	14,687	16,288	0.14
Indian and Eskimo	23,037	108,547	127,941	105,611	113,724	128,890	125,521	1.09
Negro	21,496	21,394	17,437	16,994	18,291	19,456	22,174	0.19
Other	348	2,780	145	18,310	187	681	36,753⁷	0.32
Not stated	7,561	40,806	31,539	16,932	21,249	8,898	5,275	0.05
Total	3,485,761	4,324,810	5,371,315	7,206,643	8,787,949	10,376,786	11,506,655	100.00
* Included under Scandinavian.
** Since 1921 Scandinavian has been divided into Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.
Note: Many terms used in the Canada Year Books are no longer used today for reasons such as their offensive connotations, changes in place name or organization name, or terms becoming obsolete. These terms have been left as they appear in the original yearbooks.
1. Includes the four original provinces of Canada only.
2. Includes Bohemian, Bukovinian and Slavic.
3. Includes Lithuanian and Moravian.
4. Includes Bulgarian.
5. Includes Finnish and Polish.
6. Includes Bukovinian, Galician and Ruthenian.
7. Includes 35,416 half-breeds.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.