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

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Racial origins of the population, census years 1871 to 1941, with percentage distribution for 1941
  18711 1881 1901 1911
  number
British Isles races 2,110,502 2,548,514 3,063,195 3,999,081
  English 706,369 881,301 1,260,899 1,871,268
  Irish 846,414 957,403 988,721 1,074,738
  Scottish 549,946 699,863 800,154 1,027,015
  Other 7,773 9,947 13,421 26,060
Other European races 1,322,813 1,598,386 2,107,327 3,006,502
  French 1,082,940 1,298,929 1,649,371 2,061,719
  Austrian - - 10,9472 44,036
  Belgian - - 2,994 9,664
  Bulgarian - - - -
  Czech and Slovak - - - -
  Danish * * * *
  Finnish - - 2,502 15,500
  German 202,991 254,319 310,501 403,417
  Greek 39 - 291 3,614
  Hungarian - - 1,5493 11,6483
  Icelandic * * * *
  Italian 1,035 1,849 10,834 45,963
  Jewish 125 667 16,131 76,199
  Lithuanian - - - -
  Netherlander 29,662 30,412 33,845 55,961
  Norwegian - - * *
  Polish - - 6,285 33,652
  Roumanian - - 3544 5,8834
  Russian 6075 1,227 19,825 44,376
  Scandinavian 1,623 5,223 31,042 112,682
  Swedish * * * *
  Ukrainian - - 5,682 75,432
  Yugoslavic - - - -
  Other 3,791 - 5,174 6,756
Asiatic races 4 4,383 23,731 43,213
  Chinese - 4,383 17,312 27,831
  Japanese - - 4,738 9,067
  Other 4 - 1,681 6,315
Indian and Eskimo 23,037 108,547 127,941 105,611
Negro 21,496 21,394 17,437 16,994
Other 348 2,780 145 18,310
Not stated 7,561 40,806 31,539 16,932
Total 3,485,761 4,324,810 5,371,315 7,206,643
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.