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If we list the number of persons who arrived, between September, 1819 and December,
1855 (36 years) the small. contribution by Scotland is striking as against other sources:
Ireland 1,252,071 British North America,
England 207,492 (Chiefly Canada) 91,699
Scotland 3,4559 West Indies 35,317
11. It was not until 1870 that Scotland, regularly, sent emigrants, In numbers above
10,000 per annum, to United States.
By 1910 the total of Scots Immigrants to United States was 488,149. Ireland had
sent 4,212,169 persons, - more than half of their population. The Immigrants from 1820 to
1950 were as follows:
Scotland Ireland
1820-1910 488,729 4,212,169
1911-1920 78,357 146,161
1921-1930 158,781 220,591
1931-1940 6,887 13,167
1941-1950 16,131 26,444
749,905 4,618,552
12. Dr. Carrothers 1 reports that 60 percent of the immigrants who arrived at Canadian
ports in the 1860s went, as soon as possible, to the United States.
Arrived in Canada Remained in Canada
1866 51,795 10,001
1867 57,878 10,066
1868 71,448 12,765
1869 75,800 18,360
Canada provided large amounts of settlers to Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Some of these were born in Scotland or Ulster; many were born in Canada.
Hansen states that by 1890 a million persons of Canadian birth resided in the United States.
This is a very large contribution by 1890. The population, at Confederation, in 1867, was
about 3,500,000; from 1867 to 1890 the immigration to Canada was about 1,300,000 2
Conversely the emigrants to the United States moved to Canada. I have indicated that U.S.A.
had sent over 524,000 to Canada in six years. They may not be typical.
It would appear that Canadians generally went to the older towns and villages, and to the
northern states.
W.S. Rossiter, writing as an official of the Census Bureau of the United States comments
that certain States had been hardly affected by the tide of immigration from 1790. This would
mean that the increase in these states would have risen by local births less deaths. The States
with which he was concerned were Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, and he implies that a very large
1 Carrothers W.A.; Emigration from the British Isles. London, 1929, p.214
2 Hansen, H.L.; The Immigrant in Canadian History, Cambridge, 1940.