Russian Canadian
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550,520 (by ancestry, 2011 Census)[1] | |||||||
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| Canadian English · Russian · French | |||||||
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A Russian Canadian is a Canadian citizen of Russian descent or a Russia-born person who resides in Canada. According to the 2011 Census, there were 550,520 Canadians who claimed full or partial Russian ancestry.[1]
Number of Russian Canadians
Data from this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[2]
- Total: 500,600.
- Single Response: 98,245.
- Multiple Response: 402,360.
Provinces with high Russian Canadian populations
Quebec
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[3]
- Total: 40,155
- Single Response: 11,935
- Multiple Response: 28,220
Montreal (Census Metropolitan Area)
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[3]
- Total: 35,800
- Single Response: 10,685
- Multiple Response: 25,115
Ontario
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[3]
- Total: 167,360
- Single Response: 39,660
- Multiple Response: 127,700
Toronto (Census Metropolitan Area)
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[3]
- Total: 102,815
- Single Response: 29,695
- Multiple Response: 73,120
Alberta
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[3]
- Total: 92,020
- Single Response: 11,075
- Multiple Response: 80,940
British Columbia
Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2006.[3]
- Total: 114,112
- Single Response: 21,740
- Multiple Response: 92,365
Many British Columbians of Russian descent are Doukhobors, historically concentrated in the West Kootenay and Boundary Country regions.
List of notable Russian Canadians[4]
Arts, Entertainment and Literature
- Harvey Atkin - voice-over actor
- Pamela Anderson - actress
- A-Trak - musician
- Alex Battler - writer
- Saul Bellow - Nobel Prize in Literature-winning writer. Also awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Medal of Arts
- Arnold Belkin - painter
- Chinawoman - singer
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff - ballet dancer, choreographer and company director
- Melyssa Ford - model and actress
- Victor Garber - actor, Titanic, Argo, Star Trek, many other films & series
- Natalie Glebova - Miss Universe 2005, Miss Universe Canada 2005
- Anais Granofsky - actress, Degrassi Junior High
- Lorne Greene - actor, Battlestar Galactica
- George Grie - artist
- Grimes (musician) - Juno Award-winning producer and musician
- Melissa Hayden (dancer) - ballerina
- Jessica Parker Kennedy - actress, The Secret Circle, Smallville, Black Sails
- K.d. lang - musician, winner of the Juno Awards & the Grammy Awards
- Ezra Levant - media personality
- Nadia Litz - actress
- George London (bass-baritone) - singer
- Eli Mandel - poet
- Catherine Manoukian - violinist
- Niall Matter - actor, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Melrose Place, 90210
- Sophie Milman - jazz musician
- Zara Nelsova[5] - cellist
- Sarah Polley - actress & film director, Order of Canada
- Duncan Regehr - writer & actor, Star Trek
- Coco Rocha - fashion model, and cover girl
- Sasha Roiz - actor
- Elena Semikina - Miss Universe Canada 2010
- Inga Skaya - Miss Universe Canada 2007
- Socalled - musician
- Ksenia Solo[6] - actress, Black Swan
- Madeline Sonik - writer
- Jessica Trisko - Miss Earth 2007
- Watts (producer)[7] - produced for Method Man, Redman, and Snoop Dogg
- Adele Wiseman - author
Business & Other
- Bluma Appel - philanthropist, recipient of the Order of Canada, and Order of Ontario
- John Boyarski - recipient of awards for bravery
- Charles Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
- Samuel Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
- Saidye Rosner Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family, founder of the Seagram Company
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
- Arcadi Gaydamak - businessman
- Jamie Glazov - managing editor of the Frontpage Magazine
- Ben Hatskin - founder of the Winnipeg Jets
- Gregory Lekhtman - inventor of the exercise boots
- Sonia Scurfield - owner of the Calgary Flames in the 1980s & 1990s
- Alex Shnaider - co-founder of the Midland Group, partner in the Trump International Hotel and Tower (Toronto)
Politics
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia - Russian Princess and youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
- Alex Atamanenko - Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada
- Vasile Balabanov - Imperial Russian émigré
- Martin Dobkin - mayor of Mississauga
- Catherine Doherty - Imperial Russian émigré, social activist, recipient of the Order of Canada
- Siegfried Enns - member of the Canadian House of Commons
- Lois Hole - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- George Ignatieff - Canadian diplomat
- Michael Ignatieff - author, journalist, academic, politician
- Ted Lipman - diplomat, ambassador to North Korea, and South Korea
- Tom Nevakshonoff - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
- Reynold Rapp - Member of the House of Commons of Canada
- John Tory[8] - mayor of Toronto
- Peter Vasilevich Verigin - Doukhobor leader
- Pyotr Verzilov - activist
Science
- Gregory Chamitoff - NASA astronaut & engineer
- Michel Chossudovsky - writer & professor of economics at the University of Ottawa
- Andrew Donskov - professor of Modern languages at the University of Ottawa, and world-renowned Leo Tolstoy expert
- Israel Halperin - mathematician
- Martin Kamen - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb). Discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14
- Harry Medovy - pediatrician & academic, Order of Canada
- Pierre Milman - mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Sergei Plekhanov - Professor of Political Science at York University, former Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Russia
- Louis Slotin - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb)
- George Volkoff - OC, MBE, FRSC - physicist who helped discover the existence of neutron stars
Sports
- Violetta Afanasieva - figure skater
- Nik Antropov - hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) & the KHL
- Ivan Babikov - Olympic cross-country skier
- Patricia Bezzoubenko - Rhythmic gymnast
- Boris Blumin - chess grandmaster
- Mark Bluvshtein - chess grandmaster
- Édouard Carpentier - professional wrestler
- Joshua Ho-Sang - hockey player with the OHL
- Lioudmila Kortchguina - marathon runner
- Crazy Leo - rally driver
- Igor Ivanov - chess grandmaster
- Andrei Markov - NHL hockey player
- Olga Ovtchinnikova - Olympic fencer
- Andrei Rogozine - World champion figure skater
- Bobbie Rosenfeld - Olympic Gold medalist
- Tamerlan Tagziev - wrestler, gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games
- Igor Tikhomirov - Olympic champion in fencing
- Marina Zoueva - Ice dancing coach and choreographer
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Statistics Canada. "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- ↑ "2006 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations | Ethnic Origin (247), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data". Statistics Canada. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Statistics Canada.
- ↑ References for the descent and/or birthplace of each individual can be found in their respective articles.
- ↑
- ↑ Ksenia Solo - IMDb
- ↑ "Austin "Watts" Garrick [Interview] ·". Hiphopcanada.com. 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/07/john-tory-jewish-times-israel_n_6122804.html
External links
- Multicultural Canada website digitized issues of Vestnik (Herald) newspaper, 1941–1993
- Richard A. Pierce - Russians in Canada
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