Cardinal is one of the most common surnames among aboriginal people in Canada (primarily

Cree The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...

and

Métis The Métis ( ; Canadian ) are Indigenous peoples who inhabit Canada's three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Northern United States. They have a shared history and culture which derives ...

). It originated as a French name and came to New France and was part of the

North American fur trade The North American fur trade is the commercial trade in furs in North America. Various Indigenous peoples of the Americas traded furs with other tribes during the pre-Columbian era. Europeans started their participation in the North American fur ...

by the 1680s. In the 1780s, a small group of Cardinals came from Quebec to what is now northern Alberta to work in the fur trade, they stayed and intermarried with the local native peoples and reproduced prolifically. As a result, thousands of Cree and Métis people from across Alberta and beyond can trace their descent to the Cardinals.http://people.ucalgary.ca/~hdevine/naming.htm

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* Aurèle Cardinal, Canadian architect *

Brian Cardinal Brian Lee Cardinal (born May 2, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player. He played 456 games in the NBA between 2000 and 2012, and won an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. Before his NBA career, he was one of ...

, American basketball player *

Douglas Cardinal Douglas Joseph Cardinal (born 7 March 1934) is a Canadian architect based in Ottawa, Ontario. His flowing architecture marked with smooth curvilinear forms is influenced by his Indigenous heritage as well as European Expressionist architectur ...

(born 1934), Canadian architect * Fernando Cardinal, Portuguese futsal player * Gil Cardinal, Canadian architect of Métis descent * Harold Cardinal (1945–2005), Cree writer and political leader *

Jean-Guy Cardinal Jean-Guy Cardinal (March 10, 1925 – March 16, 1979) was Deputy Premier of Quebec, Canada. Early life He was born on March 10, 1925, in Montreal, Quebec. Union Nationale Cardinal was a supporter of the Union Nationale. He was appointed t ...

, Québécois politician * Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal, Lower Canadian politician and rebel *

Judah ben Isaac Cardinal Judah ben Isaac Cardinal (or ''Cardineal'') was a translator who lived at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth, probably in Southern France. At the request of Joseph ben Baruch, who, according to Leopold Zunz, travele ...

(13th century), Arabic-Hebrew translator *

Linda Cardinal Linda Cardinal (born July 13, 1959) is a Franco-Ontarian political scientist. She is a University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa. Cardinal was elected a Fellow of ...

(born 1959), Canadian political scientist * Lorne Cardinal, Canadian actor * Marie Cardinal (1929–2001), French novelist. *

Martin Cardinal Constable Martin Cardinal is an Ottawa Police Service member who sparked national outrage on November 25, 2000, when an amateur video taken by Darcy Peterson from his balcony showed an officer repetitively slamming a handcuffed and restrained femal ...

, Canadian police officer and subject of controversy * Mark Cardinal, Canadian rugby player * Mike Cardinal, Canadian politician * Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress

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* Kardinal Offishall, stage name of Canadian rapper and producer Jason Drew Harrow

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