| Inuit Population, 1996 | |||||||||||||
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| The Inuit are Aboriginal peoples originating in the Canadian Arctic. The word Inuit means "people" in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit. This map shows the distribution of the 41 000 persons identifying themselves as Inuit in the 1996 Census. The Inuit population is illustrated by means of point symbols that increase in size with the size of the population. The symbols are located at the centre of the 276 census subdivisions (CSDs) containing a population of 15 or more Inuit. The Inuit population is almost entirely situated north of the 50th parallel. The great majority (84%) of the population of Nunavut is Inuit, this being one of the reasons why land claims led to the creation of the territory of Nunavut in 1999. Sixty-two per cent of the Inuit live in Nunavut and in the Northwest Territories, 21% in northern Quebec and 10% in Labrador. The communities of Nunavut are composed of a fairly homogenous Inuit population. Canada contains 15 communities of more than 1 000 Inuit. |
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| Source:http://www-gad1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/newtexts/map_texts/english/inuit_e.html | |||||||||||||
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