Calgary & Southern Alberta

Ethnic Origins of Calgary's Population: 1901-1961

Ethnic Origins of Calgary's Population, 1901-1961
Ethnic Group	1901		1911		1921		1931		1941		1951		1961
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Asian	64	2.6	56	0.1	729	1.2	1,136	1.4	849	0.9	1,110	0.8	2,688	1.0
British	3,578	80.2	30,884	71.3	52,206	82.4	64,400	76.4	67,846	76.3	88,416	68.5	147,030	58.9
French	125	3.0	705	1.6	1,428	2.2	1,755	2.0	2,279	2.6	4,012	3.1	9,528	3.8
German	197	4.8	2,608	6.0	876	1.4	3,751	4.5	3,014	3.3	8,794	6.8	26,917	10.8
Italian	-	-	114	0.3	425	0.7	620	0.7	661	0.7	1,091	0.8	4,720	1.9
Dutch	23	0.6	348	0.8	628	1.0	1,035	1.3	1,559	1.7	2,528	2.0	8,682	3.5
Scandinavian	195	4.8	977	2.2	1,395	2.3	3,413	4.0	3,757	4.3	6,631	5.2	4,493	1.8
Russian*	64	1.6	485	1.1	1,973	3.1	1,028	1.2	2,315	2.6	1,981	1.5	3,584	1.4
Ukrainian	-	-	-	-	153	0.2	807	1.0	959	1.0	3,033	2.4	7,075	2.8
Polish	-	-	928	2.1	287	0.5	807	1.0	1,310	1.5	2,151	1.6	5,106	2.0
Jewish	-	-	369	0.8	1,247	2.0	1,622	1.9	1,794	2.0	1,713	1.3	1,856	0.7
Native Peoples	101	2.3	878	2.0	22	-	8	-	14	-	62	-	335	0.1
Others and Unspecified	51	1.1	6,152	11.7	1,936	3.0	3,779	4.6	2,547	3.1	7,538	6.0	27,627	11.3
Total	4,398	100	43,704	100	63,305	100	83,761	100	88,904	100	129,060	100	249,641	100

*Russian includes the following: 1901-Austro-Hungarian; 1911-Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian; 1921, 1931, 1941-Austrian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian; 1951-Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian; 1961-U.S.S.R.

Source: Censuses of Canada, 1901-1961
From Foran's Calgary: An Illustrated History, p. 178

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