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Originally Posted by Docere

Interesting to see the east-west split for those born in Poland and Russia then.

Born in Poland, 1931

Eastern Canada

Polish MT 26,835 43.6%
Yiddish MT 21,003 34.1%
Ukrainian MT 11,131 18.1%

Western Canada

Ukrainian MT 56,095 51.2%
Polish MT 34,212 31.2%
Yiddish MT 3,077 2.8%

Born in Russia, 1931

Eastern Canada

Yiddish MT 28,747 72.8%
Russian MT 7,026 17.8%

Western Canada

German MT 43,040 57.5%
Russian MT 15,197 20.3%
Yiddish MT 10,490 14%

Border changes in that region of the world might make comparisons like this really complicated. My great grandfather was born in 1893 in a village that was part of Russia at the time, but became part of Poland in 1919, shortly before he moved to Canada in 1923. I wonder if in this data set, he would show up as Born in Poland, or Born in Russia.