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It must not be taken for granted that all of the immigration 

 coming from the United States has for its destination the great West. 

 Each province receives its share of the 103,798 although the division 

 in this class is in favour of the newer and agricultural provinces. 

 Four go to the West to one coming to the East, the figures being: 

 Maritime Provinces, Quebec and Ontario, 23,562; Manitoba, Sas- 

 katchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, 80,236. 



Dividing the immigrant population into three groups, it is 

 found they were distributed as indicated in the following tables: 



DISTRIBUTION OF IMMIGRANTS, 1909-10. 



British 



Foreign 



United States. 



Maritime Provinces, 

 Quebec and 

 Ontario. 



33,711 

 28,024 

 23,562 



85,297 



Manitoba, Saskatche- 

 wan, Alberta, British 

 Columbia and Yukon. 



25,179 

 18,082 

 80,236 



123,497 



While not showing the actual number of foreign immigrants 

 that went homesteading in the Western Provinces, the Immigration 

 Report permits of a fairly correct estimate being made. An aver- 

 age of 2.5 persons may be allowed for each homestead. It would 

 appear that nearly all of the number take to the land sooner or later. 

 Certain it is that so far as the housing of the immigrant population 

 is concerned, it is more a rural matter in the West and an urban one 

 in the East. 



Foreigners St. John's ward, Toronto, alone contains about 



in Canadian 10,000 foreigners, one-half Jews, one-quarter Italians 

 and one-quarter other foreigners, while the total foreign 

 population of Toronto was estimated in 1907 at 26,500. 



In Winnipeg it is estimated that one-quarter to one-third of 

 the population is foreigners. 



The foreign population of Montreal is given as follows: Jews 

 25,000 to 30,000; Italians 80,000 to 100,000; Chinese 1,000; 

 Syrians; 800 to 1,000. There is also a considerable number of Greeks 

 and Roumanians. 



The following three items refer to Winnipeg's foreign popula- 

 lation and indicate overcrowding at this storm centre :* 



* Strangers Within our Gates, James S. Wadsworth. 



