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Immigrant admissions, by country of last permanent residence, 1952 to 1956

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Immigrant admissions, by country of last permanent residence, 1952 to 1956
  1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
  number
British IsIes          
England 31,776 31,929 29,618 21,813 36,422
Northern Ireland 2,671 4,255 2,889 1,397 2,967
Scotland 10,025 9,683 9,919 5,472 10,055
Wales 588 707 694 546 802
Total, British Isles 45,060 46,574 43,120 29,228 50,246
Other Commonwealth 3,473 4,238 5,031 4,702 5,335
Total, Commonwealth 48,533 50,812 48,151 33,930 55,581
Republic of Ireland          
Continental Europe 947 2,121 2,059 1,038 2,229
  Czechoslovakia 514 27 16 30 30
  France 5,395 4,045 3,672 2,869 3,809
  Germany 25,716 34,193 28,479 17,630 26,061
  Italy 20,651 23,704 23,780 19,139 27,939
  Netherlands 21,068 20,341 16,182 6,759 7,792
  Poland 3,358 136 45 113 186
  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics1 1,969 69 24 4 14
  Other European countries 19,253 17,750 17,144 13,394 26,699
United States2 9,333 9,407 10,131 10,395 9,777
Other countries 7,761 6,263 4,544 4,645 4,740
Total, all countries 164,498 168,868 154,327 109,946 164,857
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book,1957/1958.