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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
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937.