Statistics Canada
Historical Information

Primary Data

What years had the greatest influx of new immigrants?

Which decades saw the greatest exodus of Canadians? Why is that and where do you think they went?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANALYSIS BY CULTURAL ORIGIN OF THE POPULATION OF CANADA'S
PRAIRIE PROVINCES AS REPORTED IN THE
CENSUS OF CANADA, 1921

CULTURAL ORIGIN       

        ALBERTA               

SASKATCHEWAN              

MANITOBA

Population
by
Cultural 
Origin

Percentage of Total Provincial Population

Population
by Cultural
Origin

Percentage of Total Provincial Population

Population by Cultural Origin

Percentage of Total Provincial Population

Total Provincial Population   588 454                          757 510                              610 118

Bukovinian  

 28 

 0.01%

  1 209              

 16% 

 192

 0.03%

Chinese

3 581

0.61%

 2 667

 0.35%

1 331

 0.22%

Dutch

9 490

 1.61%

 16 639

 2.20%

20 728

3.40`%

English

180 478

30.67%

 206 472

 27.26`%

 170 286

27.91%

Finnish

2 926

 .0.50%

 1937

 0.26%

 506

 0.08%

First Peoples

14 557

2.47%

12 91.4

1.70%

13 869

2.,27%

French

30 913

 5.25%

 42 152

 5.56%

40 638

 6.66%

Galician

3 930

 0.67%

6 598

0.87%

10 288

 1.69%

German

35 333

6.00%

68 202

9.00%

19 444

 3.19%

Hungarian

1 045

0.18%

8 946

1.18%

 828

 0.14%

Icelandic

507

 0.09`'%

 3 593

 0.47%

 11.043

 1.81%

Jewish

 3 242

 0.55%

5 380

 0.71%

16 669

 2.73`%

Norwegian

21 323

3.62%

 31 438

4..15%

 4203

0.69%

Polish

7172

 1.22%

8-161

1.08%

16 594

 2.72%

Russian

21 212

3.60%

 45 343

 5.99%

14 009

2.30%

Ruthenian

4 618

 0.78%

 3 327

 0.44%

7 987

1.31%

Scottish

96 062

16.32%

 104 678

 13.82%

105 034

17.22%

Swedish,

15 943

2.71%

 19 064

 2.52%

8 023

1.31%,

Syrian

198

 0.03%

466

 0.06/%

 310

 0.05%

Ukrainian

15251

2.59%

16, 9632.

2.24%

25, 662  

4.21%