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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
	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935
	number
British
English	9,417	6,461	4,301	3,491	3,089
Irish	2,748	1,886	1,316	1,021	895
Scottish	3,825	2,612	1,700	1,198	1,204
Welsh	371	184	126	115	88
Total, British	16,361	11,143	7,443	5,825	5,276
Continental European
Albanian	5	-	-	4	1
Belgian	97	81	50	78	100
Bohemian	22	24	12	10	7
Bulgarian	17	16	15	5	13
Croatian	118	95	107	152	158
Czech	78	77	54	76	113
Dalmatian	-	-	-	-	-
Dutch	308	247	190	150	172
Estonian	9	1	1	2	3
Finnish	136	62	67	79	64
French	2,938	2,832	1,337	903	840
German	2,389	1,842	1,213	945	725
Greek	66	71	53	58	67
Herzegovinian	-	-	-	-	-
Italian	633	435	365	375	392
Jewish	670	747	781	869	803
Lettish	2	8	3	1	2
Lithuanian	65	49	44	45	25
Magyar	530	333	506	442	344
Maltese	5	6	-	-	-
Mexican	1	-	-	-	1
Monténégrin	-	-	-	-	-
Moravian	1	3	-	-	-
Polish	680	474	410	436	447
Portuguese	5	9	5	5	5
Roumanian	48	38	38	44	43
Russian	111	104	82	70	99
Ruthenian	541	482	390	578	483
Scandinavian
Danish	175	116	82	63	54
Icelandic	10	12	10	12	11
Norwegian	262	275	144	132	122
Swedish	276	225	126	100	113
Serbian	50	51	35	38	28
Slovak	344	262	408	594	415
Spanish	26	23	12	15	12
Spanish American	1	2	4	-	-
Swiss	72	57	46	43	55
Turkish	2	-	2	1	-
Yugoslavic	78	59	68	104	119
Total, Continental European	10,771	9,118	6,662	6,429	5,836
Non-European
American Indian	29	24	10	6	2
Arabian	1	2	-	1	2
Armenian	6	5	10	3	5
Chinese	-	1	1	1	-
East Indian	52	61	36	33	26
Japanese	174	119	106	126	70
Korean	-	-	-	-	-
Negro	104	71	80	25	28
Persian	1	1	-	-	-
Syrian	31	46	34	27	32
Total, non-European	398	330	277	222	165
Grand total	27,530	20,591	14,382	12,476	11,277
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.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937.