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Racial origins of the population, census years 1871 to 1941, with percentage distribution for 1941

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Racial origins of the population, census years 1871 to 1941, with percentage distribution for 1941
  1921 1931 1941
  number %
British Isles races 4,868,738 5,381,071 5,715,904 49.68
  English 2,545,358 2,741,419 2,968,402 25.80
  Irish 1,107,803 1,230,808 1,267,702 11.02
  Scottish 1,173,625 1,346,350 1,403,974 12.20
  Other 41,952 62,494 75,826 0.66
Other European races 3,699,846 753,242 526,964 48.03
  French 2,452,743 927,990 483,038 30.27
  Austrian 107,671 48,639 37,715 0.33
  Belgian 20,234 27,585 29,711 0.26
  Bulgarian 1,765 3,160 3,260 3.00
  Czech and Slovak 8,840 30,401 42,912 0.37
  Danish 21,124 34,118 37,439 0.33
  Finnish 21,494 43,885 41,683 0.36
  German 294,635 473,544 464,682 4.04
  Greek 5,740 9,444 11,692 0.10
  Hungarian 13,181 40,582 54,598 0.47
  Icelandic 15,876 19,382 21,050 0.18
  Italian 66,769 98,173 112,625 0.98
  Jewish 126,196 156,726 170,241 1.48
  Lithuanian 1,970 5,876 7,789 0.07
  Netherlander 117,505 148,962 212,863 1.85
  Norwegian 68,856 93,243 100,718 0.88
  Polish 53,403 145,503 167,485 1.45
  Roumanian 13,470 29,056 24,689 0.21
  Russian 100,064 88,148 83,708 0.73
  Scandinavian ** ** ** -
  Swedish 61,503 81,306 85,396 0.74
  Ukrainian 106,721 225,113 305,9296 2.66
  Yugoslavic 3,906 16,174 21,214 0.18
  Other 16,180 6,232 6,527 0.06
Asiatic races 65,914 84,548 74,064 0.64
  Chinese 39,587 46,519 34,627 0.30
  Japanese 15,868 23,342 23,149 0.20
  Other 10,459 14,687 16,288 0.14
Indian and Eskimo 113,724 128,890 125,521 1.09
Negro 18,291 19,456 22,174 0.19
Other 187 681 36,7537 0.32
Not stated 21,249 8,898 5,275 0.05
Total 8,787,949 10,376,786 11,506,655 100.00
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.