| Population : Alberta |
 16 Mar 2006 |
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As of April 1, 2005, Alberta's population is estimated to be 3,236,906. This represents a yearly increase of approximately 46,500 persons (or 1.46% growth) since April 1, 2004. The Alberta economy has been strong for many years and as a result, the province continues to experience the highest net interprovincial migration in Canada.
The main language spoken is English, although many other languages... |
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| Population : British Columbia |
07 Jun 2006 |
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Migration to the province took place in two major waves. The first occurred after 1885, when Vancouver became the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The second, which began after World War II, is still under way. Nearly 60 percent of the population lives in the Victoria and Vancouver areas. Vancouver is home to more than 1.8 million people, which makes it the third-largest Canadian... |
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| Population : Manitoba |
07 Jun 2006 |
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Throughout the seventeenth and well into the eighteenth century the Métis and the Amerindian peoples made up the majority of the population. At the time of Riel's insurrection there were 12,000 inhabitants in the Red River area, of whom only 600 were of British or Canadian descent.
By the 1880's most Manitobans were of British origin. But changes in migration and immigration patterns since the... |
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| Population : New Brunswick |
07 Jun 2006 |
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New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province, with the highest percentage of Francophones outside Quebec (almost 35 percent), The heritage of New Brunswick combines French, British Loyalist, Scots and Irish traditions, with later elements of German, Scandinavian and Asian. The Aboriginal people of New Brunswick number more than 12 000, most of them Mi'Kmaq and Malecite. ... |
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| Population : New Scotland |
07 Jun 2006 |
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Over 80 percent of Nova Scotia's population of 936,092 trace their ancestry either wholly or partly to the British Isles. Those with French origin rank second: 18 percent of residents have some French ancestry. The next largest groups by ancestry are German and Dutch.
Many residents of Nova Scotia are also of Polish, Italian, Jewish and Lebanese descent. After the War of 1812, several thousand... |
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| Population : Northwest Territories |
07 Jun 2006 |
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The present population of the N.W.T. is approximately 40 000 Dene, Inuvialuit and Métis make up 48%, non-Aboriginals about 52%. Most live in small communities; Yellowknife, the capital, has a population of more than 15 000. ... |
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| Population : Nunavut |
07 Jun 2006 |
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Archeologists divide Nunavut's inhabitants into two distinct but physically related groups: the Paleoeskimo people from at least 4,000 to 700 years ago; and the Neoeskimo people who entered Nunavut some 1,000 years ago.
Nunavut is home to the Inuit who originally inhabited this land, and of the qallunaat (outsiders) who arrived in their changing quests over the centuries, from the search for a... |
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| Population : Ontario |
08 Jun 2006 |
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Ontario is the country's most populated province. Over half of Ontario's population lives along the western end of Lake Ontario between St. Catherines and Oshawa. Settlement and immigration from 1779 onward brought continuous waves of English, Scottish and Irish immigrants. Immigration continued throughout the twentieth century with large numbers of people of Italian, German, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese,... |
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| Population : Prince Edward Island |
08 Jun 2006 |
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Approximately 80 percent of the people are of British (mainly Scottish and Irish) origin. About 15 percent are of French origin, and five percent speak French. Of this number, 62 percent live in the rural districts, including 8 percent on farms. The island population is quite young with about 38 percent of the people under 25 years of age. ... |
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| Population : Québec |
08 Jun 2006 |
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Nearly 80% of Québecois live near the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. Almost 80 percent of Québecois live in urban centres located along the St. Lawrence. Montreal and its suburbs have a population of over three million. Of a total population of about seven million, Québec has more than five million people of French origin, 350 000 of British origin and about 137 000 Amerindians (Mohawk, Cree,... |
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| Population : Saskatchewan |
08 Jun 2006 |
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In the early 1880's, there were fewer than 1000 non-Aboriginal people in the area that was to become the province of Saskatchewan. Ten years later 20,000 people occupied the territory, mostly settlers from Ontario. With the Canadian government's aggressive National Policy immigrants from many European countries came in to settle the land over the next thirty years. The government's efforts to promote... |
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| Population : The Yukon |
08 Jun 2006 |
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The Yukon's vast interior forests were occupied by the Athapaskans, whose cultural and linguistic traditions go back more than 1000 years. Today, there are six distinct groups of Athapaskan Indians: Kutchin, Han, Tutchone, Inland Tlingit, Kaska and Tagish.
At present, approximately 31 040 people live in the Yukon; 23 percent of the population is Aboriginal. Almost 60 percent of the population... |
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