Russian Canadians

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Russian Canadians
Русские канадцы
Russian Canadian population by province.svg
Russian Canadians as percent of population by province/territory
Total population
622,445
by ancestry, 2016 Census[1]
Regions with significant populations
Saskatchewan, Alberta, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver
Languages
  • Canadian English
  • Russian
  • French
Religion
  • Christianity (mainly Orthodox)
  • Judaism
  • Irreligion
Related ethnic groups

Russian Canadians comprise Canadian citizens of Russian heritage or Russians who emigrated to and reside in Canada. According to the 2016 Census, there were 622,445 Canadians who claimed full or partial Russian ancestry.[1] The areas of Canada with the highest percentage population of Russian Canadians are the Prairie Provinces.

Number of Russian Canadians[]

Data from this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.[2]

hide Percent
 Newfoundland and Labrador 0.2%
 Prince Edward Island 0.4%
 Nova Scotia 0.5%
 New Brunswick 0.3%
 Quebec 0.7%
 Ontario 1.7%
 Manitoba 4.7%
 Saskatchewan 3.7%
 Alberta 2.7%
 British Columbia 2.9%
 Yukon 2.3%
 Northwest Territories 1.2%
 Nunavut 0.3%


Data from this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.[1]

  • Total: 622,445.
  • Single response: 120,165.
  • Multiple response: 502,280.

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: 98,800 (???)
  • 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[]

  • Aleksei Serebryakov (actor) – actor
  • Boris Volkoff - ballet master, choreographer, "the father of Canadian ballet"
  • Harvey Atkin – voice-over actor
  • Alex Battler – writer
  • 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
  • Natalie Glebova – Miss Universe 2005, Miss Universe Canada 2005
  • Anais Granofsky – actress, Degrassi Junior High
  • Melissa Hayden – ballet dancer
  • Jessica Parker Kennedy – actress, The Secret Circle, Smallville, Black Sails
  • Ezra Levant – media personality
  • Nadia Litz – actress
  • Elena Lobsanova – ballet dancer
  • George London – singer
  • Eli Mandel – poet
  • Catherine Manoukian – violinist
  • Niall Matter – actor, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Melrose Place, 90210
  • Sophie Milman – jazz musician
  • Zara Nelsova – cellist[5]
  • Alex Ozerov - actor
  • Kim Yaroshevskaya - actress, voice-over, story-teller and writer
  • Sarah Polley – actress and film director, Order of Canada
  • Duncan Regehr – writer and 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[citation needed]
  • Socalled – musician
  • Ksenia Solo – actress, Black Swan[6]
  • Madeline Sonik – writer
  • Jessica Trisko – Miss Earth 2007
  • Watts – produced for Method Man, Redman, and Snoop Dogg[7]
  • Adele Wiseman – author
  • Sasha Clements – actress, Majority Rules!

Business and 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
  • Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
  • Saidye Rosner Bronfman – billionaire, member of the Bronfman family, founder of the Seagram Company
  • Samuel Bronfman – billionaire, member of the Bronfman family
  • Arcadi Gaydamak – businessman
  • Ben Hatskin – founder of the Winnipeg Jets
  • Gregory Lekhtman – inventor of exercise boots
  • Sonia Scurfield – owner of the Calgary Flames in the 1980s and 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 House of Commons of Canada
  • 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 – mayor of Toronto[8]
  • Peter Vasilevich Verigin – Doukhobor leader
  • Pyotr Verzilov – activist
  • Roman Baber – M.P.P

Science[]

  • Gregory Chamitoff – NASA astronaut and engineer
  • Michel Chossudovsky – writer and professor of economics at the University of Ottawa
  • Andrew Donskov – professor of modern languages at the University of Ottawa; 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 and 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[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables". statcan.gc.ca. 25 October 2017.
  2. ^ "2016 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. 2020-01-11. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f [1][dead link]
  4. ^ References for the descent and/or birthplace of each individual can be found in their respective articles.
  5. ^ "Zara Nelsova" Archived May 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Ksenia Solo". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  7. ^ "Austin "Watts" Garrick [Interview]". Hiphopcanada.com. 2007-08-07. Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
  8. ^ "John Tory Is Jewish, Claims Israeli Press". Huffingtonpost.ca. 2014-11-07. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Chernoff, Peter F. (1998). Tarasoff, Koozma J. (ed.). "Doukhobor stars in the Sports world". Spirit-Wrestlers' Voice: Honoring Doukhobors on the Centenary of Their Migration to Canada in 1899. Legas: 79–92.

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