HC Deb 03 April 1930 vol 237 cc1482-4W
Mr. RHYS DAVIES

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs if he will make inquiries as to the number of emigrants admitted to Canada for each of the last five years, divided into separate nationalities?

Nationalities. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928.
British 78,703 54,906 37,569 50,378 51,552
Albanians 7 2 14 8 12
Austrians 82 75 124 794 1,320
Belgians 1,662 1,300 1,170 2,210 2,317
Bulgarians 267 69 38 106 253
Czeckoslovaks 2,757 2,084 3,237 6,671 6,025
Dutch 1,149 1,637 1,155 1,525 1,593
Esthonians 51 49 31 83 133
Finnish 7,640 4,261 1,863 5,842 5,313
French 370 326 350 32 635
Germans 1,769 2,215 1,277 2,282 4,716
Greeks 292 237 208 357 551
Hebrews N.E.S 948 781
Austrian 1 2
German 5 8
Polish 1,208 722
Russian 2,093 2,946
Hungarians 364 1,052 3,663 4,447 4,357
Italians 6,379 2,349 1,590 3,269 3,546
Jugo Slavs 1,306 1,620 3,560 5,386 4,193
Latvians 11 20 61 96 109
Lithuanians 236 125 313 1,032 1,411
Luxemburghers 85 35 32 21 31
Polish 4,211 2,734 8,128 17,930 18,958
Portuguese 3 1 7
Rumanians 1,431 2,056 1,113 2,527 4,173
Russians 3,058 5,411 6,953 8,122 2,932
Scandinavians
Danes 1,355 1,830 1,126 2,031 3,831
Icelanders 27 49 50 29 30
Norwegians 2,424 2,550 1,064 3,377 4,314
Swedes 3,536 2,138 1,076 1,966 2,552
Spanish 39 3 5 17 8
Swiss 1,585 680 376 756 788
Turks 27 29 29 34 7
Ukrainians 832 26 346 503 209
Arabians 8 4 8
Argentines 9
Armenians 486 304 67 27 5.
Chinese 674 2
Cubans 1
Egyptians 3 3 1
Japanese 448 501 412 457 462
Mexicans 1 6 16 6
Negroes 42
Persians 5 8 12 15 3
Syrians 86 212 143 215 106
West Indies 7 37 1
Other Countries 242 53 11 13 13
United States 20,655 15,914 18,883 21,120 25,115
148,560 111,362 96,064 143,991 151,597

Mr. LUNN

The required particulars are published annually by the Dominion Government, but the 1929 figures are not yet available. The following are the figures, extracted from the Canada Year Book for the years 1924 to 1928: