Ukrainian Canadians
Ukrainian Canadians (Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).; French: Canadiens d'origine ukrainienne) are Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada. In 2016, there were an estimated 1,359,655 persons of full or partial Ukrainian origin living in Canada (most being Canadian-born citizens), making them Canada's eleventh largest ethnic group[1] and giving Canada the world's third-largest Ukrainian population behind Ukraine itself and Russia.
українські канадці | |
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Total population | |
1,359,655 (by ancestry, 2016 Census)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec | |
Languages | |
Canadian English, Ukrainian (including Canadian Ukrainian), Quebec French, Russian | |
Religion | |
Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Ukrainian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Baptist, Judaism, United Church, other[2] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Ukrainians, Ukrainian Americans, British Ukrainians, French Ukrainians (in France), Ukrainian Australians, Slavic Peoples especially East Slavs |
Ukrainian Canadians Media
Commemorative plaque and a statue entitled "Why?" / "Pourquoi?" / "Чому (Chomu)?", by John Boxtel at the location of the Castle Mountain Internment Camp, Banff National Park
Commemorative statue entitled "Never Forget" / "Ne Jamais Oublier" / "Ніколи Не Забути (Nikoly Ne Zabuty)", by John Boxtel; and damaged plaque at the cemetery of the Kapuskasing Internment Camp, Kapuskasing, northern Ontario
A group of Ukrainian Canadians pictured at a celebration inside Toronto's Old Fort York, taken in May 1934. Photograph from the M.O. Hammond fonds held at the Archives of Ontario.
Ukrainian language street signs alongside English ones in Hafford, Saskatchewan
Map of the dominant self-identified ethnic origins of ancestors per census division. Actual physical origins of ancestors may be different. Ukrainian-plurality areas are highlighted in teal. Note that Ukrainians are a significant minority elsewhere, and that, numerically, most Ukrainian Canadians live in cities.
A Ukrainian dance troupe at the BC Ukrainian Cultural Festival
In 1974, what was then the world's largest pysanka was erected in Vegreville, Alberta, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It has since been exceeded by a pysanka built in Ukraine.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Statistics Canada. "2016 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Swyripa, "Ukrainians", p. 1863; Martynowych 2011; Swyripa, "Canada", p. 348.