Canada Yearbook - 1920

524 LABOUR, WAGES AND PRICES
3.—Numbers and Percentage Distribution by Industries of Persons Engaged in
Gainful Occupations, 1881 to 1911—concluded.
Industry.
Agriculture
Building trade s
Domestic and personal service..
Civil and municipal government
Fishing and hunting
Forestry
Manufacture "
Mining
Miscellaneous
Professional
Trade and merchandising
Transportation
Total Workers
PERCENTAGES IN EACH INDUSTRY.
Workers Engaged-
1881. 1891. 1901. 1911.
p.c.
48-1
16-8
6-5
0-6
21
0-6
11-7
0-5
1-0
3-5
57
2 9
100 0
p.c.
45-8
11-6
8-7
1-1
1-9
0-8
14-1
1-0
3-9
6-8
4-3
100 0
p.c.
40-2
12-0
9-3
1-0
1-5
0-9
15-4
1-6
4-6
9-0
4-5
100 0
p.c.
34-3
9-0
7-8
2-8
1-3
1-6
180
2-3
4-5
10-4
8-0
100 0
Distribution of Labour Force by Nativity.—While at the
census of 1911, those born outside of Canada constituted approximately
only 22 p.c. of the total population, these 22 p.c, because
they contained a large proportion of young strong males, contributed
no less than 31-91 p.c. of those engaged in gainful occupations.
As is shown in Table 4, they constituted even a larger proportion
of those engaged in domestic and personal service, in civil and municipal
government, in mining and transportation, while they fell
short of reaching their general proportion to the occupied population
in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting—that is, in all the primary
industries except mining.
i.—Numbers and Percentage Distribution by Nativity, SJX and Industries of Persons
Engaged in Gainful Occupations, 1911.
NUMBERS.
Class of Occupation.
Total Workers.
Workers Born in
Canada.
Workers Born Outside
of Canada.
Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female.
Building trades
Domestic and personal
917,848
245,990
75,133
15,887
211
138,879
667,207
157,274
38,597
11,954
176
90,904
250,641
88,716
36,536
3,933
35
47,975
Civil and municipal government
72,531
4,073
40,356
3,522
32,175 551
Fishing and hunting
34,547
265
31,601
258
2,946 7
5
42,901 13 31,403 8
11,498
138,899 17,321
392,781
98,561
253,882
81,240
32,816 10
62,706
61
29,890
51
18,970 7,973
Trade and merchandising.
62,781
57,835
43,811
49,862
73,614 7,713
95,549
1,313
240,903 42,184 167,289 34,471
All Occupations 2,358,813 210,692 361,831 6,852 1,576,153 115,143 377,985 5,539 783,360 86,836