Dominion Society of Canada - March 24, 2026


Heritage Canadian？ What's that？


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Length

48 seconds

Words per minute

187.73158

Word count

152

Sentence count

7


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What are heritage canadians? What is a Canadian? What does it mean to be a heritage canadian? And who are the real Canadian s? All of these questions and more are answered in this episode of the podcast.

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00:00:00.000 heritage Canadians, what is that? I mean, they're just real Canadians. These are the descendants
00:00:04.340 of the settlers that built this country. There is ethnic component to what a Canadian is. We have
00:00:10.920 kind of two definitions. The ethnic Canadians, these are the unique ethnic groups that were
00:00:15.320 founded through an ethnogenesis between the French, English, Irish, Scottish, that happened
00:00:20.100 within the St. Lawrence Valley over hundreds of years. And then we are for this broader definition
00:00:24.240 of heritage Canadians, because the settlement of Canada, much of Canada, especially Western and
00:00:29.040 northern canada happened much later in the early 1900s so we believe that settlement is a crucial
00:00:34.620 part of canadian identity so we have offered this definition heritage canadian a combination of the
00:00:39.580 older kind of ethnic canadian groups as well as the newer waves of settlers who helped found
00:00:44.660 provinces like alberta and saskatchewan these are the heritage canadians