Ukrainian origins across the Prairies

In Ethelbert, 58.2 percent of the population in private households report Ukrainian origin, the highest share of any municipality in Canada with at least 500 people in private households counted.

Origin in this story: Ukrainian

About 643,000 people in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta reported Ukrainian origin. · Prairies

Ukrainian origin forms a belt on the map from the Vegreville district in Alberta to the Manitoba Interlake: within Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 480 dissemination areas report Ukrainian above 25 percent of the population in private households.

The Ukrainian share is 31.4 percent in Vegreville, 30.1 percent in Yorkton and 30.0 percent in the city of Dauphin.

In the Edmonton census metropolitan area 151,395 people reported Ukrainian origins.

Province-wide the share is 12.7 percent in Manitoba, 12.5 percent in Saskatchewan and 8.2 percent in Alberta, against 3.3 percent across Canada.

Residents may report more than one origin, so the shares across origins can sum to more than 100 percent.

Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population

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