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THE DISTRIBUTION OF ENGLISH IN UPPER CANADA 1851–1871
Author(s) -
Brunger Alan G.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1986.tb01227.x
Subject(s) - scots , irish , census , demography , geography , distribution (mathematics) , history , sociology , population , art , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , literature , mathematical analysis
Studies of British peoples in Upper Canada have emphasized the Irish and Scots rather than the English despite the fact that in 1871 439,429 people ‐ 27 per cent of Ontario residents ‐ claimed English ancestry (Clarke and McLeod 1974; Houston and Smyth 1980; Akenson 1984). Those of English nativity constituted 28 per cent of foreign‐born in the same year (Census of Canada 1871). Two decades earlier, in 1851, the English‐born numbered 82,699, and they had increased to 124,062 by 1871. The overall proportion of those of English birth remained quite uniform, at approximately 8 per cent throughout the twenty‐year period.