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Ethnic Groups in Canada, groups of people in Canada who share the same history and culture. There are more than 100 different ethnic groups in Canada, and many have maintained their own languages and cultures. Canada has been described as a cultural mosaic where ethnic groups remain distinct.
In contrast to Canada, the United States is characterized as a melting pot in which ethnic identities are absorbed by a larger American identity. Through a policy called multiculturalism, the Canadian government officially encourages each of Canada's ethnic groups to preserve its own heritage and to share it with the rest of the Canadian population. This article discusses Canada's major ethnic groups, including government policy and general information about each group's geographic distribution, culture, and history.
Most social scientists agree that for a group to constitute an ethnic group it has to see itself and be seen by others as distinct. Social scientists also agree that such a group must have two essential attributes: a long and shared history and a cultural tradition of its own, which includes family customs and manners that may or may not be tied to religion. Other characteristics often shared by members of an ethnic group include language, geographical origin, religion, food, race, and literature.
Canada has two founding ethnic groups, the British and the French. British Canadians have traditionally dominated Canada, but French Canadians have maintained their own language and culture in the populous province of Québec. In the 1960s the sizable French minority pressured the federal government to prevent the French language and culture from being absorbed by the Anglophone society. In response, the Canadian government began to consider ways of preventing discrimination against the country's various ethnic groups. Other major ethnic groups in Canada include Germans, Italians, aboriginal peoples, Ukrainians, Chinese, and Dutch.
In the late 1960s the government began to admit prospective immigrants based on their work skills and education, thus eliminating a long-standing bias against non-Europeans. Canada now has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world, and ethnic groups from non-European countries are a growing percentage of the immigrant stream. The government classifies many of these ethnic groups as visible minorities, defined in the Employment Equity Act (1986) as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color." In 1968, 9 of the top 10 countries of origin for immigrants were European. By 1976, 5 of the top 10 were non-European. In 2004 nearly half of all legal immigrants entering Canada came from Asia and the Pacific Rim. Overall, visible minorities have continually increased as a percentage of the Canadian population in recent decades, from 6.3 percent in 1986 to 9.4 percent in 1991, 11.2 percent in 1996, and 13.4 percent in 2001.
Ethnic Groups in Canada, groups of people in Canada who share the same history and culture. There are more than 100 different ethnic groups in Canada, and many have maintained their own languages and cultures. Canada has been described as a cultural mosaic where ethnic groups remain distinct.
In contrast to Canada, the United States is characterized as a melting pot in which ethnic identities are absorbed by a larger American identity. Through a policy called multiculturalism, the Canadian government officially encourages each of Canada's ethnic groups to preserve its own heritage and to share it with the rest of the Canadian population. This article discusses Canada's major ethnic groups, including government policy and general information about each group's geographic distribution, culture, and history.
Most social scientists agree that for a group to constitute an ethnic group it has to see itself and be seen by others as distinct. Social scientists also agree that such a group must have two essential attributes: a long and shared history and a cultural tradition of its own, which includes family customs and manners that may or may not be tied to religion. Other characteristics often shared by members of an ethnic group include language, geographical origin, religion, food, race, and literature.
Canada has two founding ethnic groups, the British and the French. British Canadians have traditionally dominated Canada, but French Canadians have maintained their own language and culture in the populous province of Québec. In the 1960s the sizable French minority pressured the federal government to prevent the French language and culture from being absorbed by the Anglophone society. In response, the Canadian government began to consider ways of preventing discrimination against the country's various ethnic groups. Other major ethnic groups in Canada include Germans, Italians, aboriginal peoples, Ukrainians, Chinese, and Dutch.
In the late 1960s the government began to admit prospective immigrants based on their work skills and education, thus eliminating a long-standing bias against non-Europeans. Canada now has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world, and ethnic groups from non-European countries are a growing percentage of the immigrant stream. The government classifies many of these ethnic groups as visible minorities, defined in the Employment Equity Act (1986) as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color." In 1968, 9 of the top 10 countries of origin for immigrants were European. By 1976, 5 of the top 10 were non-European. In 2004 nearly half of all legal immigrants entering Canada came from Asia and the Pacific Rim. Overall, visible minorities have continually increased as a percentage of the Canadian population in recent decades, from 6.3 percent in 1986 to 9.4 percent in 1991, 11.2 percent in 1996, and 13.4 percent in 2001.
Canadian Architecture, buildings and building practices of the inhabitants of what is now known as Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Canadians and their forebears on the land have devised varied and often ingenious architecture in response to some of the most daunting climatic conditions on Earth, including extreme cold. Key characteristics of this architecture include the use of building technology to further human comfort, an openness to styles and building ideas borrowed from other peoples, and a desire to express shared values and the people’s relationship to their often inhospitable northern land.
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| L'Anse aux Meadows In around ad 1000 Norse Vikings sailed from Greenland to North America and set up a village on the tip of what is now the island of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. At this site, known as L'Anse aux Meadows, the settlers built houses of wood framing covered with sod, similar to those shown in this reconstruction. |
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| Igloo |
| Some Inuit peoples in the Arctic regions of Canada live in domed houses of snow, or igloos, which provide good insulation and protection from wind. The word igloo comes from the Inuit iglu, meaning “house.” |
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| Ottawa Village |
| French explorers were the earliest Europeans to explore present-day Ontario, Canada. When the explorers arrived, they saw the cone-shaped wigwams of the Ottawa people. Published in 1842, this lithograph portrays a native village of the Ottawa, known as Île de Michilimackinac. |
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Kwakiutl Plank House The indigenous peoples who lived along the west coast of Canada constructed rectangular houses covered with cedar planks. Many of these plank houses had brightly painted decorations and featured totem poles in front that served as family crests. |
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| Deschambault Chevrotiere Mill |
| This mill reflects much of the early architecture of Québec, which was built of stone and had steeply pitched roofs of tin tiles that were interrupted by dormers. Historical sites, including famous battlefields and fort ruins, abound in the province. |
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| Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours |
| Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, built in 1771, is one of the oldest churches in the city of Montréal, Québec. It is located in the section known as Old Montréal on Rue St.-Paul. Unlike the rest of the city, which has been modernized, the historical architecture in this area has been preserved. |
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| Canadian Parliament Buildings |
| The Canadian Parliament buildings house the Senate and the House of Commons. Their towers and pinnacles create a picturesque scene above the Ottawa River in Ottawa, Ontario. |
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| University of Toronto |
| Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto is one of the largest universities in Canada and offers undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 50,000 students. Set in bucolic Queen’s Park, also the site of the Ontario Parliament buildings, the campus offers students and faculty a peaceful academic setting in the heart of downtown Toronto. |
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| Notre Dame Basilica, Montréal |
| Notre Dame Basilica was built in 1829 and stands on Montréal’s Place d'Armes, the city’s most historic square. The basilica’s elaborate interior is in the Gothic Revival style. Sumber |
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