Akseli Järnefelt:

1883    723

1885    555

1886    491

1887    1,822

Arthur Hjelt:

1892    36,401

1893    9,117

1894    1,380

1895    4,020

1896    5,185

1897    1,916

1898    3,467

1899    12,075

1900    10,397

1901    12,561

1902    23,152 (40)

1903    16,964

1904    10,952

1905    17,427

1888    

1889    

1890    

1891    

1892    

2,231

2,027 2,451 5,281

5,099 (39)

1906    17,517

1907    16,296

1908    5,812

1909    19,144

1910    19,007

1911    9,372

1912    10,724

1913    20,057

1914    6,474

1915    4.041

1916    5,325

1917    2,773

1918    1,900 (41)

Teo Snellman, Elis Sulkanen and Arne Halonen:

1919    1,085   1922    5,715

1920    5,595   1923    13,835

1921    3,557   1924    5,429

Walfrid Jokinen:

1893-1950    363,467

1893-1900    47,557 or 13.1%

1901-1910    158,832 or 43.8%

1911-1920    67,346 or 18.5%

1921-1930    58,559 or 16.1%

1931-1940    8,844 or 2.4%

1941-1950    22,329 or 6.1%

These figures reflect the continued growth of immigration year after year to the eve of World War I. They also show clearly the effect upon the numbers of immigrants caused by periods of economic depression in the United States (for example, 1908, which was also affected by the easing in 1905-07 in the russification tactics in Finland.) In 1924 the United States limited the

number of Finns who could enter the country to 471 per year, although that figure was revised to 569 in 1928. In the six years following these restrictions, Canada, for example, receive 3 almost nine times as many immigrants as did the United States. 44 After World War II, the maximum quotas for certain countries

39. Akseli Järnefelt, Suomalaiset Amerikassa. Helsinki, 1899. p. 18. 40. Sosialipoliittinen Aikakauskirja 1905.

41. Virallinen Lehti XVIII 1920.

42. T. Snellman, op. cit. p. 20, E. Sulkanen, op. cit. p. 17, and Arne Halonen, The

Finnish-American Labor Movement; Its Growth and Decline. Unpublished Master's

thesis, University of Minnesota. pp. 1-2.

43. Walfrid Jokinen, The Finns in Minnesota; A sociological Survey. Unpublished

Master's thesis, Louisiana State University, p. 35. 44. W. Jokinen, op. cit. p. 5.

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