Aboriginal population as a proportion of total population, Canada, provinces, territories and health regions, 1996

Aboriginal population %
 
00 Canada 2.9
10 Newfoundland 2.5
1001 Health and Community Services St. John's Region 0.4
1002 Health and Community Services Eastern Region 0.3
1003 Health and Community Services Central Region 1.6
1004 Health and Community Services Western Region 2.3
1005 Grenfell Regional Health Services Board 9.6
1006 Health Labrador Corporation 28.7
11 Prince Edward Island 0.8
1101 Urban Health Region 0.7
1102 Rural Health Region 1.0
12 Nova Scotia 1.3
1201 Zone 1 0.9
1202 Zone 2 0.9
1203 Zone 3 2.1
1204 Zone 4 1.2
1205 Zone 5 3.3
1206 Zone 6 0.6
13 New Brunswick 1.4
1301 Region 1 1.2
1302 Region 2 0.5
1303 Region 3 2.4
1304 Region 4 1.3
1305 Region 5 1.9
1306 Region 6 0.3
1307 Region 7 4.0
24 Quebec 1.2
2401 Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent 0.3
2402 Région du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean 1.6
2403 Région de Québec 0.6
2404 Région de la Mauricie et Centre-du-Québec 1.0
2405 Région de l'Estrie 0.2
2406 Région de Montréal-Centre 0.3
2407 Région de l'Outaouais 2.7
2408 Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2.9
2409 Région de la Côte-Nord 8.7
2410 Région du Nord-du-Québec 1.2
2411 Région de la Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine 2.1
2412 Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches 0.1
2413 Région de Laval 0.2
2414 Région de Lanaudière 0.7
2415 Région des Laurentides 0.8
2416 Région de la Montérégie 1.1
2417 Région du Nunavik 87.6
2418 Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James 92.1
35 Ontario by District Health Council 1.5
3501 Champlain District Health Council 1.2
3502 Quinte-Kingston and Rideau DHC 1.5
3503 Durham-Haliburton-Kawartha and Pine Ridge DHC 1.0
3504 Toronto District Health Council 0.4
3505 Simcoe-York District Health Council 0.8
3506 Halton-Peel District Health Council 0.3
3507 Waterloo-Wellington-Dufferin DHC 0.5
3508 Hamilton-Wentworth DHC 1.0
3509 Niagara District Health Council 1.0
3510 Grand River DHC 4.5
3511 Thames Valley DHC 1.3
3512 Essex-Kent and Lambton DHC 1.4
3513 Grey-Bruce-Huron and Perth DHC 1.1
3514 Muskoka-Nipissing and Parry Sound DHC 3.5
3515 Algoma-Cochrane-Manitoulin and Sudbury DHC 6.2
3516 Northwestern Ontario DHC 15.0
35 Ontario by Health Unit 1.5
3526 Algoma Public Health Unit 6.9
3527 Brant Public Health Unit 7.2
3530 Durham Public Health Unit 0.6
3531 Elgin-St Thomas Public Health Unit 0.7
3533 Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Public Health Unit 1.7
3534 Haldimand-Norfolk Public Health Unit 1.3
3535 Haliburton-Kawartha-Pine Ridge Public Health Unit 1.0
3536 Halton Public Health Unit 0.4
3537 Hamilton-Wentworth Public Health Unit 1.0
3538 Hastings and Prince Edward Public Health Unit 1.8
3539 Huron Public Health Unit 0.5
3540 Kent-Chatham Public Health Unit 1.1
3541 Kingston-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington Public Health Unit 1.1
3542 Lambton Public Health Unit 3.4
3543 Leeds-Grenville-Lanark Public Health Unit 0.7
3544 Middlesex-London Public Health Unit 1.6
3545 Muskoka-Parry Sound Public Health Unit 3.0
3546 Niagara Public Health Unit 1.0
3547 North Bay Public Health Unit 4.2
3549 Northwestern Public Health Unit 22.2
3551 Ottawa Carleton Public Health Unit 1.0
3552 Oxford Public Health Unit 0.5
3553 Peel Public Health Unit 0.3
3554 Perth Public Health Unit 0.3
3555 Peterborough Public Health Unit 2.1
3556 Porcupine Public Health Unit 10.2
3557 Renfrew Public Health Unit 1.9
3558 Eastern Ontario Public Health Unit 2.3
3560 Simcoe Public Health Unit 1.6
3561 Sudbury Public Health Unit 4.9
3562 Thunder Bay Public Health Unit 10.0
3563 Timiskaming Public Health Unit 2.5
3565 Waterloo Public Health Unit 0.6
3566 Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health Unit 0.4
3568 Windsor-Essex Public Health Unit 0.7
3570 York Public Health Unit 0.3
3595 City of Toronto Public Health Unit 0.4
46 Manitoba 11.4
4610 Winnipeg 6.8
4615 Brandon 6.3
4620 North Eastman 19.7
4625 South Eastman 5.2
4630 Interlake 16.2
4640 Central 8.0
4650 Marquette 10.1
4655 South Westman 2.2
4660 Parkland 21.1
4670 Norman 36.9
4680, 4690 Burntwood and Churchill ..
4680 Burntwood 65.0
4690 Churchill 45.0
47 Saskatchewan 11.0
4701 Weyburn (A) Service Area 2.8
4702 Moose Jaw (B) Service Area 2.0
4703 Swift Current (C) Service Area 1.4
4704 Regina (D) Service Area 8.9
4705 Yorkton (E) Service Area 5.1
4706 Saskatoon (F) Service Area 6.9
4707 Rosetown (G) Service Area 1.3
4708 Melfort (H) Service Area 8.1
4709 Prince Albert (I) Service Area 24.9
4710 North Battleford (J) Service Area 23.4
4711 Northern Health Services Branch (K) Service Area 78.1
48 Alberta 4.8
4801 Chinook Regional Health Authority 6.5
4802 Palliser Health Authority 1.6
4803 Headwaters Health Authority 4.8
4804 Calgary Regional Health Authority 1.8
4805 Health Authority #5 6.6
4806 David Thompson Regional Health Authority 6.7
4807 East Central Health Authority 2.0
4808 Westview Regional Health Authority 5.6
4809 Crossroads Regional Health Authority 7.1
4810 Capital Health Authority 3.6
4811 Aspen Regional Health Authority 6.7
4812 Lakeland Regional Health Authority 13.4
4813 Mistahia Regional Health Authority 7.1
4814 Peace Regional Health Authority 11.4
4815 Keeweetinok Lakes Regional Health Authority 45.5
4816 Northern Lights Regional Health Authority 14.7
4817 Northwestern Regional Health Authority 35.1
59 British Columbia 3.7
5901 East Kootenay 3.5
5902 West Kootenay-Boundary 1.8
5903 North Okanagan 3.2
5904 South Okanagan Similkameen 2.2
5905 Thompson 8.9
5906 Fraser Valley 3.9
5907 South Fraser Valley 1.5
5922 Burnaby/Simon Fraser 1.6
5917 Burnaby 1.3
5908 Simon Fraser 1.7
5909 Coast Garibaldi 5.8
5910 Central Vancouver Island 5.8
5911 Upper Island/Central Coast 6.8
5912 Cariboo 10.7
5913 North West 21.5
5914 Peace Liard 8.9
5915 Northern Interior 8.9
5921 Vancouver/Richmond 1.8
5916 Vancouver 2.1
5919 Richmond 0.8
5918 North Shore 1.4
5920 Capital 2.3
60 Yukon Territory 19.3
6001 Yukon Territory 19.3
61 Northwest Territories excluding Nunavut 45.4
6101 Northwest Territories excluding Nunavut 45.4
62 Nunavut 80.4
6201 Nunavut 80.4

1. Data sources: Statistics Canada, 1996 Census (20 % sample), 1996 Coverage Studies, and Demography Division (population estimates)
2. Aboriginal people living in a geographic area as a percentage of the total population.
3. Aboriginal people are those persons who reported identifying with at least one Aboriginal group (e.g. North American Indian, Métis or Inuit) and/or those who reported being a Treaty Indian or a Registered Indian as defined by the Indian Act and/or those who were members of an Indian Band or First Nation.
4. Aboriginal population excludes institutional residents.
5. Health regions are defined by provincial governments as the areas of responsibility for regional health boards (i.e., legislated) or as regions of interest to health care authorities.
6. In Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province into urban and rural components.
7. Prince Edward Island has defined these health regions for statistical purposes only; they bear no resemblance to the boundaries of the five actual administrative health regions.
8. In Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones" and relate to the province’s administrative health region boundaries.
9. In Ontario, Public health units (PHU) administer health promotion and disease prevention programs, and District health councils (DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations.
10. In Saskatchewan, "service areas" have been created from groupings of the 33 health districts.
11. The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications: (..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate or not applicable.
12. CANSIM table number 01090012.