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Racial origins of immigrants into Canada, calendar years 1926 to 1935

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Racial origins of immigrants into Canada, calendar years 1926 to 1935
  1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
  number
British          
  English 30,593 34,056 37,662 43,287 24,789
  Irish 11,425 11,857 12,523 14,478 7,876
  Scottish 16,339 17,569 18,532 23,207 11,996
  Welsh 1,568 2,204 3,316 3,586 1,116
Total, British 59,925 65,686 72,033 84,558 45,777
Continental European          
  Albanian 11 38 38 22 33
  Belgian 1,922 2,448 1,341 952 427
  Bohemian 112 80 90 104 76
  Bulgarian 88 243 267 311 353
  Croatian 1,138 963 1,108 751 604
  Czech 778 726 987 440 261
  Dalmatian - - 1 7 -
  Dutch 2,204 2,631 2,255 1,980 1,605
  Estonian 77 111 108 98 87
  Finnish 4,811 5,167 3,758 4,712 2,811
  French 2,882 3,834 4,605 5,187 5,084
  German 13,791 15,845 17,964 17,919 13,544
  Greek 319 610 770 741 575
  Herzegovinian 3 4 - - -
  Italian 2,683 4,617 1,114 1,514 1,327
  Jewish 4,867 5,184 4,059 4,001 4,220
  Lettish 58 81 78 83 36
  Lithuanian 792 893 1,799 959 624
  Magyar 5,262 5,875 6,366 5,484 3,360
  Maltese 35 38 26 41 22
  Mexican 3 1 - - -
  Monténégrin 1 4 - 2 3
  Moravian 22 50 7 21 5
  Polish 5,552 8,481 8,583 6,424 5,207
  Portuguese 21 7 22 28 11
  Roumanian 358 248 336 400 300
  Russian 1,261 1,280 1,245 858 1,123
  Ruthenian 9,534 10,899 16,080 11,009 8,133
  Scandinavian          
  Danish 1,696 4,032 4,092 3,140 1,421
  Icelandic 57 50 49 35 40
  Norwegian 3,820 6,415 3,707 3,750 1,808
  Swedish 3,011 3,866 4,284 3,895 1,440
  Serbian 854 586 416 387 208
  Slovak 4,024 4,256 4,466 2,617 2,645
  Spanish 49 45 62 62 36
  Spanish American 6 2 6 5 2
  Swiss 588 818 621 652 340
  Turkish 6 9 7 7 8
  Yugoslavic 2,205 1,640 2,915 973 521
Total, Continental European 74,901 92,077 93,632 79,571 58,300
Non-European          
  American Indian 13 26 21 25 8
  Arabian 8 8 1 4 7
  Armenian 79 66 20 33 28
  Chinese - 2 1 1 -
  East Indian 70 56 56 49 80
  Japanese 443 511 535 180 218
  Korean 1 - - - -
  Negro 302 313 359 464 294
  Persian 4 6 1 1 1
  Syrian 236 135 124 107 93
Total, Non-European 1,156 1,123 1,118 864 729
Grand Total 135,982 158,886 166,783 164,993 104,806
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937.