{"id":2625,"date":"2022-04-26T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?page_id=2625"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:33:12","slug":"indigenous-peoples-in-ontario-demographics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?page_id=2625","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Peoples in Ontario &#8211; Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Demographics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ontario has the largest Indigenous population in Canada (374,395)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/#fn1\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/a>. The second largest Indigenous population is in British Columbia (270,580).<\/li>\n<li>The Indigenous population in Ontario increased by 54 per cent from 2006 to 2016. There are two explanations for the large growth in the Indigenous population: natural growth and an increase in people voluntarily self-identifying as First Nations, Inuit, or M\u00e9tis.<\/li>\n<li>Indigenous people represent 2.8 per cent of the total population of Ontario.<\/li>\n<li>Thunder Bay is the Census Metropolitan Area with the highest proportion of Indigenous people in Canada (12.7 per cent of the population).<\/li>\n<li>The average age of the Indigenous population is 33.6 years compared to 40.7 years for the non-Indigenous population in Ontario.<\/li>\n<li>Ontario has the largest First Nations population in Canada (236,685 or 24 per cent of the total First Nations population in Canada).<\/li>\n<li>There are 120,585 self-identifying M\u00e9tis people in Ontario, which is a 40 per cent increase from 2011 and an increase of 64 per cent since 2006.<\/li>\n<li>With a population of 3,860, the Inuit represent 1 per cent of the total Indigenous population in Ontario.<\/li>\n<li>133 First Nation communities are located in Ontario, the second-highest number in Canada after British Columbia (source: Chiefs of Ontario).<\/li>\n<li>78 per cent of First Nation communities in Ontario are located in Northern Ontario.<\/li>\n<li>1 in 4 First Nation communities in Ontario is a remote community, accessible only by air year-round or by ice road in the winter. Ontario has the highest number of remote First Nation communities in Canada.<\/li>\n<li>23 per cent of First Nations people in Ontario live on reserve.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 58,100 people living on reserve in Ontario, 93 per cent identify as First Nations. Approximately 7 per cent identify as M\u00e9tis, Inuit, other Indigenous or non-Indigenous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/document\/spirit-reconciliation-ministry-indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation-first-10-years\/indigenous-peoples-ontario\">https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/document\/spirit-reconciliation-ministry-indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation-first-10-years\/indigenous-peoples-ontario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demographics Ontario has the largest Indigenous population in Canada (374,395)*. The second largest Indigenous population is in British Columbia (270,580). The Indigenous population in Ontario increased by 54&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2631,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2625\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}