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Scottish Canadians

Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and amongst the first Europeans to settle in the country, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times. According to the 2016 Census of Canada, the number of Canadians claiming full or partial Scottish descent is 4,799,010,[3] or 13.93% of the nation's total population. Prince Edward Island has the highest population of Scottish descendants at 41%.

Canadiens écossais
Canèidianaich Albannach

2,101,100

828,145

661,265

288,180

209,170

202,515

142,560

The Scots-Irish Canadians are a similar ethnic group. They descended from Lowland Scots and Northern English people via Ulster and so some observe many of the same traditions as Scots.


Categorically, Scottish Canadians comprise a subgroup of British Canadians which is a further subgroup of European Canadians.[a]

Culture[edit]

Today Canada is awash in Scottish memorabilia, as Rae (2005) shows. The Tartan days, clan gatherings, highland games, and showings of films like Braveheart indicate a sense of Scottishness that is informed by stories, narratives, or myths of the homeland's rural, masculinist, resistant past.[26]


Other Canadians reject tartanism as a superficial and commercialized expression of Gaelic identity,[25] and embrace Scottish Gaelic language and culture through the auspices of organizations such as the Atlantic Gaelic Academy and the Gaelic College. The Comhairle na Gàidhlig is an organization devoted to "creating an environment that makes Nova Scotia a place where Gaelic language, culture, and communities thrive."[27]

British Canadians

Scottish diaspora

Scottish placenames in Canada

Scots-Quebecer

Anglo-Métis

English Canadians

European Canadians

Scottish people

Scottish Americans

Ulster-Scottish Canadians

Celtic music in Canada

Glengarry Highland Games

Canadian Friends of Scotland Website

Documentation of the first Scots to set foot in Canada.

textual records, photographs and maps relating to Roderick Andrew MacDonell and the settlement of Clandonald, Alberta

Multicultural Canada website

Scottish Emigration Database