Dominion Society of Canada - Heritage Canadian？ What's that？

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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

Dominion Society of Canada - March 24, 2026