Results of a study of Jewish immigration into Canada since the war were made public here today. They establish that 44,578 Jews came into the country which had a pre-war Jewish population of some 175,000 persons. Of these 60 percent arrived in the first six years after the war and the other 40 percent came during the past six years.
Jews formed three percent of all immigrants coming into the country. Nearly the entire immigrant group consisted of workers and their dependents. More than half of the Jewish immigrants settled in the province of Quebec, and over a third settled in Ontario. Only one tenth settled in the other eight provinces of Canada which include the entire western prairie and western area and the eastern seaboard provinces.
Among the Jewish immigrants to Canada during this period a higher percentage were skilled workers than among the non-Jewish immigrants. The survey was prepared by the Research Bureau of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
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