Talk:List of Canadian census areas demographic extremes

Non-visible minorities
One of the vulgar shortcomings of current StatsCan practice is that for most places actual ethnic breakdowns are not available for ethnically-signficant communities like Gimli, Manitoba, which despite its Icelandic heritage StatsCan will list instead how many Asians and latin Americans there are.....; I added Gimli but I think we could also extrapolate Prince Rupert as the largest % Hungarian population, Birch Hills, Saskatchewan as the largest Norwegian commujnity, Thunder Bay as the largest % of Finnish CAnadians and so on (for communities over 5000 anyway, otherwiseSointula probably takes it); regional/provincial breakdowns are a bit easier to cite - Saskatchewan has the highest propotion of Canadians of Norwegian descent, either Alberta or Manitoba the highest percentage of Ukrainians and so on. Like other demographic tables in Wikipedia just because StatsCan provides POV statistics doesnt' mean that it should bev the only valid source for such info; in fact because it doesn't it cassts doubt ont eh validity fo StatsCan's reliability at all. StatsCan may make a discrimination between visible minorities and those construed to be "just white", but taht's no reason for Wikipedia to continue mirroring the ethnic prejudices of the Ottawa bureaucracy......Largest %'s of German Canadians, Russian Canadians, Scandinavian Canadians, Polish Canadians, etc etc - even American Canadians (probably the West Kootenay, but taht's just a guess for now) should be here; if "places" escludes regions and provinces then some diggign/effort shoudl be made somehow to make up for what StatsCan has decided are unimportant ethnic groups (which I find highly offensive as a practice and an insult to non-visible minority immigrant-deswcent Canadians such as myself; my grand-dad was director of Scandinavian immigration and would be mortified to see all mention of us obliterated from official record-keeping in the way StatsCan clearly has been doing.....).Skookum1 (talk) 15:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * One of Abbotsford, Langley or Chilliwack will be the highest proportion of Dutch Canadians.....Skookum1 (talk) 15:31, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Lowest mother tongue French
This is what's on the list:
 * ''# Lowest % of people whose mother tongue is French: Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador, Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador and Stanley, Manitoba: 0.0%

But what's to distinguish those places from a few hundred others? I mean, there's any number of places in Western Canada, especially IR communities, where French also shows up as 0.0% How did Bay Roberts and Marystown and Stanley get picked for this listing?Skookum1 (talk) 21:04, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Highest aboriginal over 5000
I'm browsing the Ethnocultural portraits trying to determine the highest percentage of certain ethnicities, e.g. to see if Corman Park's 43.4% German is highest in the country (Estevan is 41.x%, of even larger places) and came across a very high figure of 7,915 North American Indian for Prince Albert (23.67%), vs 7,865 for English and 7,080 for French; there's probably higher, I think, especially in some places in BC, but we'll see; Noting the "Aboriginals over 250" section (which I'll retitle as that's not really a proper Canadian usage that way), and ignoring the dozens (upon dozens) of IRs which will have 100%, is there a ceiling on that section? Certainly listing other ethnicities in the over 5000 section is called for, not just visible minorities; I added Gimli for the Icelanders a long time ago because it's so famous for that; so after some digging I'll flesh out that section as much as possible; and noting also that the StatsCan usage "North American Indian" has to be used, not "First Nations" or even "Aboriginal" - unless the latter is cited by "Aboriginal identity population" (which sometimes is a different figure if you compare the Community Profile with the Ethnocultural Portrait for each place).Skookum1 (talk) 18:03, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Ancestry/ethnicity population extremes
An Ancestry/ethnicity population extremes section was recently added. The vast majority of the "highest percentage" numbers are ridiculously small (and unreferenced). As a result, these figures are not unnotable. Also, where is a reference that confirms that the Highest % Albanian population of 0.01% is in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador? It is bizarre that the communities listed are limited to only two provinces as well (NL and PE). As it stands, I do not see how inclusion of this unreferenced information is encyclopedic. If no one objects, I intend to remove the section. Hwy43 (talk) 04:44, 22 July 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅ by Earl Andrew. Thanks, Hwy43 (talk) 05:10, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

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Information from 2016 and 2021 Censuses
The information on this article is years out of date. Page needs to be updated in order to reflect data from the Canada 2016 Census and 2021 Census. 96.20.169.215 (talk) 12:31, 9 October 2022 (UTC)