European Canadians

European Canadians
Map of Canadians reporting only European ancestry by census division (2021)
Total population
25,364,140 (2021 census)[1][2][a]
69.8% of the total Canadian population
24,493,090 (67.4%) (White alone)
871,050 (2.4%) (Mixed non-White)
Regions with significant populations
All areas of Canada
less prevalent in Northern Canada
Languages
English
French
Italian
German
Ukrainian
Portuguese
Other European Languages
Historically: Scottish Gaelic · Irish
Religion
Christianity (60.3%)
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Mormonism, Other Latter Day Saints, Nondenominational and Other Christians
Irreligion (37.5%)
Judaism (1.2%)
Converts and others (1.1%)
Related ethnic groups
European diaspora, Europeans, European Americans, European Australians, European New Zealanders, British (English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish), Irish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Portuguese

European Canadians or White Canadians are Canadians who can trace their ancestry to the continent of Europe.[3][4] They form the largest panethnic group within Canada.

In the 2021 Canadian census, 19,062,115 people or 52.5% of the population self-identified ethnic origins from Europe.[5] 8,329,950 people or 22.9% of the population self-identified ethnic origins that were from North America and were not Indigenous. Most of these responses are not counted as visible minority by Statistics Canada (such as "Canadian" and "French Canadian" ethnic origin responses).[note 1] People may nominate more than one ethnic origin in the census.

In the 2021 Canadian census, 25,364,140 Canadians self-identified as White, forming approximately 69.8 percent of the total Canadian population.[1][2] This included 24,493,090 (67.4 percent) persons who were White only, and a further 871,050 (2.4 percent) persons who were White mixed with other non-White groups.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference census2021A was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "The Canadian census: A rich portrait of the country's religious and ethnocultural diversity". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved September 28, 2024. In 2021, just over 25 million people reported being White in the census, representing close to 70% of the total Canadian population. The vast majority reported being White only, while 2.4% also reported one or more other racialized groups.
  3. ^ www.oxforddictionaries.com Euro-Canadian definition
  4. ^ Menzies, Charles (1994). "Stories from Home: First Nations, Land Claims, and Euro-Canadians". American Ethnologist. 21 (4). American Anthropological Association: 776–791. doi:10.1525/ae.1994.21.4.02a00060. JSTOR 646839. Example of Euro-Canadian being used
  5. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Ethnic or cultural origin by gender and age: Canada, provinces and territories". www150.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2022.


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