Ethnic Origin
Note: the percentages do not necessarily add up to 100% as multiple responses are allowed. Ethnic origins with less than 2% of the responses are not listed
- 22.1% English
- 19.1% German
- 18.5% Scottish
- 18.2% Canadian
- 14.7% Ukrainian
- 13.4% Irish
- 13.1% French
- 10.6% North American Indian
- 7.3% Polish
- 6.4% Métis
- 4.9% Dutch (Netherlands)
- 4.0% Russian
- 2.7% Icelandic
Manitoba is home to the largest Icelandic population outside of Iceland. There are 30,555 people with Icelandic ancestry living in Manitoba, making up 2.7% of the total population of Manitoba . About 35% of the Icelandic-Canadian population lives in Manitoba. In the 1880s a group of Icelandic settlers in the largely Scandinavian descent town of Gimli declared a short-lived "Republic" known as New Iceland.
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