The percentage of native-born Canadian Jews has almost doubled in the half-century from 1911 to 1961, according to a breakdown of governmental census figures completed here by the research division of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
In 1911, the data showed, 32.9 percent of Canadian Jews were native-born. But the 1961 census figures showed that the Jewish native-born had increased to 62.2 percent. In one province, Nova Scotia, the Jewish native-born totaled 77 percent.
The Canadian census figures distinguished between those who claim they are Jews by religion and those who register themselves as Jews by ethnic origin. In the 1961 tabulation, there were 254, 368 Jews by religion, and 173, 344 by ethnic origin in the entire Dominion. Of the total of ethnic Jews, 31. 2 percent had been born in Europe; 2. 3 percent in the United States; and 2.1 percent in Great Britain.
By country of birth, the 1961 statistics showed, the Canadian Jewish population included 107, 877 Jews born in Canada; 54, 088 born in Europe; 3, 378 born in Britain; 4, 471 born in the United States; 324 born in other British Commonwealth countries; and 3, 206 born “in other countries including Israel.”
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