Nordic and Scandinavian Canadians are
Canadian citizens
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with ancestral roots in the
Nordic countries and/or
Scandinavia
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They generally include:
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Danish Canadians
Danish Canadians ( Danish: ''Dansk-canadiere'') are Canadian citizens of Danish ancestry. According to the 2006 Census, there were 200,035 Canadians with Danish background, 17,650 of whom were born in Denmark.
Canada became an important destina ...
(Nordic and Scandinavian)
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Norwegian Canadians (Nordic and Scandinavian)
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Sami Canadians (Nordic and Scandinavian)
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Swedish Canadians (Nordic and Scandinavian)
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Finnish Canadians (Nordic)
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Icelandic Canadians
Icelandic Canadians are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry or Iceland-born people who reside in Canada.
Canada has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland, with about 101,795 people of full or partial Icelandic descent as o ...
(Nordic)
The highest concentration of Scandinavian Canadians is in
Western Canada
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, especially
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
,
Alberta
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and
Saskatchewan
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.
As of the
2016 Canadian census, there are approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Nordic and Scandinavian descent, or about 3.49% of the total population of the country.
History
See also
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European Canadians
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Vinland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland ( non, Vínland ᚠᛁᚾᛚᛅᚾᛏ) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John ...
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L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows ( lit. Meadows Cove) is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the ...
References
External links
"Immigration Handbook for Scandinavian Settlers in Canada, with Comprehensive Descriptions of Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and British Columbia"from 1899
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Canada
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American
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