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Nationalities of immigrant arrivals, 1954 to 1956
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| 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| number | |||
| African (not British) | 24 | - | - |
| Albanian | 23 | 2 | 28 |
| Argentinian | 70 | 156 | 103 |
| Armenian | 2 | - | - |
| Austrian | 4,597 | 1,997 | 3,193 |
| Belgian | 1,448 | 1,027 | 2,226 |
| Brazilian | 18 | 60 | 60 |
| British | 46,725 | 32,370 | 53,362 |
| Bulgarian | 40 | 4 | 11 |
| Central American | 15 | 20 | 17 |
| Chinese | 1,930 | 2,635 | 2,044 |
| Czechoslovakian | 229 | 36 | 30 |
| Danish | 1,417 | 1,379 | 3,605 |
| Estonian | 232 | 46 | 30 |
| Finnish | 677 | 628 | 1,074 |
| French | 3,016 | 2,332 | 3,427 |
| German | 28,360 | 17,138 | 25,590 |
| Greek | 2,857 | 2,907 | 5,104 |
| Hungarian | 391 | 139 | 3,914 |
| Icelandic | 36 | 19 | 48 |
| Irish (Republic of Ireland) | 2,334 | 1,261 | 2,664 |
| Israeli | 432 | 276 | 346 |
| Italian | 24,410 | 20,077 | 29,522 |
| Japanese | 72 | 99 | 121 |
| Latvian | 426 | 118 | 82 |
| Lithuanian | 192 | 55 | 50 |
| Mexican | 53 | 65 | 49 |
| Netherlander | 16,317 | 6,885 | 7,896 |
| Norwegian | 998 | 686 | 838 |
| Persian | 6 | 12 | 6 |
| Polish | 1,846 | 169 | 267 |
| Portuguese | 1,072 | 1,212 | 1,729 |
| Romanian | 395 | 17 | 22 |
| Russian | 294 | 26 | 27 |
| South American | 94 | 134 | 147 |
| Spanish | 124 | 146 | 359 |
| Swedish | 329 | 278 | 416 |
| Swiss | 1,141 | 728 | 1,215 |
| Syrian | 116 | 360 | 466 |
| Turkish | 34 | 22 | 48 |
| Ukrainian | 245 | - | - |
| United States | 9,174 | 9,597 | 9,038 |
| West Indian (not British) | 19 | 23 | 33 |
| Yugoslavic | 1,764 | 394 | 460 |
| Other | 233 | 4,511 | 5,190 |
| Total | 154,227 | 109,946 | 164,897 |
| Notes: - Figures from 1930 are given in the corresponding table of previous Canada Year Books beginning with the 1936 edition. - 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. |
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| Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1957/1958. | |||
