Cree origins across the northern Prairies
Within Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 79 dissemination areas report Cree origin above 50 percent of the population in private households.
Origin in this story: Cree, unspecified
About 125,000 people in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta reported Cree, unspecified origin. · Prairies
Cree is reported by 79.9 percent of the population in private households in Split Lake 171, 70.0 percent in Nelson House 170 and 66.8 percent in Norway House 17.
West of there the share is 86.2 percent in Gordon 86 and 81.9 percent in Fox Lake 162.
Province-wide the Cree share is 2.7 percent in Manitoba, 3.7 percent in Saskatchewan and 1.2 percent in Alberta.
Plains Cree and Woodland Cree are separate responses: the Plains Cree share is 29.2 percent in Samson 137 and the Woodland Cree share is 63.3 percent in Pelican Narrows 184B.
Residents may report more than one origin, so the shares across origins can sum to more than 100 percent.
These are answers to the census question on ethnic or cultural origin, not the separate census measures of Indigenous identity, Indigenous ancestry or registered or treaty Indian status, and they must not be read as equivalent. Counts are randomly rounded and several reserves were incompletely enumerated and are blank on the map. See ‘Indigenous origins’ under About this map. Cree unspecified, Plains Cree, Woodland Cree and Oji-Cree are separate responses and are never added together here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
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