Cree origins on James Bay
Within Quebec, Cree origin reaches 98.9 percent of the population in private households in one dissemination area of Waskaganish.
Origin in this story: Cree, unspecified
About 16,000 people in Quebec reported Cree, unspecified origin. · Quebec
Cree is reported by 94.6 percent of the population in private households in Whapmagoostui, 92.5 percent in Waskaganish and 86.5 percent in Chisasibi.
Inland and along the coast the share is 78.2 percent in Mistissini and 58.0 percent in Wemindji.
Across Quebec Cree is reported by 0.2 percent of the population in private households, while 97 dissemination areas in Canada report the origin above 50 percent.
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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