By RERARD MCNEIL OTTAWA (CP) — Gerda Munsinger wasn’t your typical Canadian immigrant but she did reflect cverepe 8 prefer- | ences when she headed for the big Eastern a Most

Europe and most find their future in the plants, offices and construction .sites of. cen- tral Canada,

Of -the 2,504,000 arrivals in the . 1946-65 52.4 per cent settled in Ontario. and 20.7 per cen in Quebec. .

Few immigrants to Quebee

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more tiie eid’ ane country than in any Sane period,”’ says the recent white -paper on immigration.

“They contributed - 26 per cent to the Yukon’s growth from 1951 to 1961, 53 per cent to Toronto's ‘and almost 100 per cent to that of isolated Kitimat, B. C- PREFERS BIG CITIES

Yet opportunity and the sponsorship system, through which 900,000 post-war immi- grants have entered Canada, — most bo Toronto and Mont-

= bustling cities offer fast employment and a chance to settle in among relatives and friends while learning the ae guage and customs of the New

World. ae combination is irresist-

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Majority Of Immigrants Go To Big Eastern Cities

at the island of Montreal and oes west,”’ the white paper declares. ‘The rate to areas

east of the Ottawa River is '

generally low."

Only about 2.8 per cent of the arrivals since 1946 have settled in the Atlantic prov- inces. More than half of these are in Nova ‘Scotia.

Next to Ontario and Quebee, British Columbia attracts the greatest percentage at 10.1. It is the natural for Pa- cifie emigrants and name and heritage still draw many British newcomers.

The Prairie provinces, which attracted hundreds of

sanrope 48 per cent and Saskatchewan 2.3 per cent.

NORTH DRAWS SKILLS : Only one-tenth of one: per cent of the post-war immi- grants have settled in the Yukon and Northwest Terri- tories. i

But this works out -to about 2,500 people and they tend to be highly skilled. Among the 135 who went north last year, 69 were workers and these in- cluded two. mining a chemist, a physicist. teachers. and five nurses.

The 1946-65 figures show that of those entering the labor force, 22.3 per cent go into manufacturing, 14:1 per cent into farming, 13.6 per cent into clerical and sales work, 12.6 info service industries, 12.4 per cent into professional jobs and 10.8 into labor.

Actual trends~in this decade are much different, although manufacturing still leads the list of occupations among new-

comers. There were 146,758. immi-

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whelming majority of new | guage tend to-learn E * Canadians. Since 1946, Britain | even if they settle in Mon has accounted for 30.4 per | -» “Disproportionately little cent, Italy 14.3 per cent and | our immigration increases oup Germany -9.9 per cent, ~French « speaking population,” Americans follow at 7.4 pa says the white paper. - cent, 6.2 per cent are Dutch, A formula now being studied 48 per cent Poles, 2.5 ae by a Parliamentary commit- ae See ee Oe J Bi Bag 2 aera garians, 1 per 1 rights to immigrants w'

ig it will extend these Tights to The Hun 3 rived in iets pe all Canadians, regardless af. a rebellion, the kind of up- eolor, race or creed. bit heaval that historically has | This isn't expe spurred emigration. change-the pattern of

A developing trend ts seen | Sration much. Few. in the number of ’ mostly Indians, Canada’s demand for Japanese; coming to in the 1960s. There is a of applications at New

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