THE WORLD IN LONDON.
Toronto lias a foreign population of 35,000, who speak forty different languages. The proportion of foreigners is certainly large, but Toronto needs more. .She has not yet caught up London, who has close upon 140,000 people of alien birth within her Avails. There is hardly a part of the inhabited globe which is not represented here. Russians are the most numerousover 38,000 —with Germans 10,000 fewer—as second. Russian Poles till third place, with upwards of 15,000. French (11,300), Italians (10.900), Austrians (6200), Americans (6000), Swiss (4400), Dutch (4250) are next in order. Belgium is represented by a couple of thousand, a number similar to that which stands for Servia, Rouinania, and Bulgaria. Other nationalities counted at the last census were as follows:—China, 120: Denmark, 946; Greece, 211; Hungary, 750; Japan, 151; Norway, 1067; Portugal, 128; Spain, 666; Sweden, 1675; Turkey, 660; Africa, 168; '• Asia and other countries, 14b." And there are about 12 score whose place of nationality is not stated. We could summon a parliament of the peoples of the world without sending beyond lie borders of the capital. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13727, 18 April 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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184THE WORLD IN LONDON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13727, 18 April 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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