Dominion Society of Canada - March 24, 2026


Heritage Canadian？ What's that？

Hosted by
Daniel Tyrie
The Sun will rise again. Remigration not separation.

Episode Stats


Length

48 seconds

Words per minute

187.73

Word count

152

Sentence count

7


Summary

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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.

Transcript

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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