AMERICAN IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA,
[TO THE EDITOZ Or THE " SPECTATOH:]
SIR,—In your issue of June 10th is a letter from "An Englishman" in Montreal emphatically denying the assertion that half the population of Western Canada to-day is "American, by birth or adoption"; and by "American " your correspondent refers, no doubt, to the leaser half of North America—i.e., the United States. For the present the denial is justified, but your own explanatory comment, whilst per- fectly accurate, may well prove a little misleading. You say :—
For example, in Manitoba there were 225,200 people of Canadian, 30,600 of British, and only 6,980 of American origin. No doubt the proportion is higher now, but out of a total immigra- tion into Canada of 148,700 persons in 1908, only 57,200 came from the United States.
Quite so. But perhaps you will permit me to give you the figures for the fiscal years of 1909 and 1910. In 1909 the total immigration into Canada from all sources was 146,908. Of this'total 34,175 came from foreign countries, 52,901 from the United Kingdom, and 59,832 from the United States. For 1910 the figures were : Foreign, 45,206 ; United Kingdom, 69,790; United States, 103,798.—I am, Sir, &c.,
THE EDITOR OF THE "STANDARD OF EMPIRE."
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