Métis origins from the Red River to the Churchill
Among municipalities of at least 1,000 people in private households counted, the highest Métis share in Canada is 67.4 percent, in Île-à-la-Crosse.
Origin in this story: Métis
About 245,000 people in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta reported Métis origin. · Prairies
Métis is reported by 67.4 percent of the population in private households in Île-à-la-Crosse, 63.7 percent in Buffalo Narrows and 60.1 percent in Beauval.
Further south the share is 33.6 percent in the St. Laurent municipality and 28.8 percent in Smoky Lake County.
Province-wide the Métis share is 6.7 percent in Manitoba, 4.8 percent in Saskatchewan and 2.5 percent in Alberta, against 1.3 percent across Canada.
Across Canada 96 dissemination areas report Métis above 25 percent of the population in private households.
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.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
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