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Mother tongues of immigrants, 10 years of age or older, 1937 to 1946

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Mother tongues of immigrants, 10 years of age or older, 1937 to 1946
  1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
  number
Albanian 7 5 5 - - - - - - -
Armenian (Aramaic) 3 1 2 1 - - - - - 3
Bulgarian 27 20 13 2 - - - - - 2
Chinese 1 - - - - - - - - 2
Croatian (Serbian) 438 460 185 43 3 - - 12 13 18
Czech (Bohemian) 989 1,389 673 100 20 14 13 14 36 191
Danish 38 36 73 23 7 3 12 4 9 45
East indian 8 8 16 6 1 3 - - - 3
English 6,643 7,142 7,431 8,206 7,497 6,023 6,518 9,054 15,853 48,120
Estonian - 8 5 - - 1 2 1 6 4
Finnish 65 56 60 10 7 6 7 4 10 16
Flemish 62 131 90 8 7 1 5 3 1 452
French 478 623 559 501 356 256 295 332 458 1,035
Greek 511 571 1,944 208 50 40 21 28 214 1,010
German 76 106 103 45 12 3 6 5 19 53
Hungarian (Magyar) 436 507 383 94 21 2 14 7 17 86
Icelandic - 1 - - - 1 2 1 2  
Italian 367 337 183 105 8 4 10 4 12 67
Japanese 130 52 40 38 5 - - - - -
Lettish 7 4 3 5 2 - 1 - 1 2
Lithuanian 43 40 50 15 4 2 2 - 2 2
Netherlands 58 95 190 56 30 8 7 4 11 1,798
Norwegian 25 20 43 27 16 26 6 3 46 147
Polish 1,215 1,440 1,198 62 47 19 20 37 260 560
Portuguese - - 1 1 1 1 - - 3 4
Roumanian 103 142 90 12 12 4 6 2 3 24
Russian 42 29 88 16 23 7 6 19 9 46
Russniak1 401 728 665 5 2 1 7 3 4 7
Slovenian 2 1 - - - - - - 1 1
Spanish 11 7 8 21 11 7 8 11 20 31
Swedish 41 28 14 12 4 7 6 8 10 28
Syrian (Arabic) 16 18 13 2 4 - 1 5 1 3
Turkish 1 1 1 - 4 - - 1 1 -
Yiddish and Hebrew 110 93 197 36 41 12 17 20 46 94
Not given - - - - - - 1 - - -
Total 12,354 14,099 14,326 9,660 8,195 6,152 6,998 9,582 17,068 53,851
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.