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"Canadian" as an ethnic identity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian ethnicity is the self-identification of one's ethnic origin as being Canadian.[1][2] The identification is most common among white Canadians who do not identify with their ethnic ancestral origins due to generational distance from European ancestors.[3][4]
Total population | |
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5,677,205 15.6% of Canada's population (2021) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Throughout Canada, especially in Quebec and Atlantic Canada | |
Languages | |
English · French | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Christianity (Mainly Catholicism and Protestantism) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
French Canadians, English Canadians, Scottish Canadians, Irish Canadians |
Canadians with ancestral origins in the British Isles and France are the most likely groups to identify ethnically as Canadian.[1] As their languages, traditions, and cultural practices largely define Canadian society,[5] many do not see themselves as linked to any other nation or ethnic group. Nonetheless, most English-speaking Old Stock Canadians still identify ethnically with their European ancestry, while French-speaking Old Stock Canadians are more likely to identify ethnically as Canadian or with other North American identities (such as Québécois or Acadian) than with European ones.[2]
Indigenous Canadians do not identify ethnically as Canadian, identifying instead with their First Nation group, as Inuit, or as Métis.
"Canadian" was the most common ethnic or cultural origin reported in the 2021 census, reported alone or in combination with other origins by 5.67 million people or 15.6% of the total population.[6]