Ethnocultural Map of Alberta
This took me a couple months of procrastination but it is finally here. Important note that due to certain laws, some region's population counts are not released to the public, so they are transparent, notably Improvement District No. 12, 13, and 25 among others. All information is taken from the Census Profiles of each Census Subdivision
Is there a reason you separated out the Germans and the Mennonites (who are largely descended from the Russian Mennonites which have their ancestral and ethnic routes in Germany)?
Otherwise, it is a very interesting map to look at
It is based on whichever Ethnic of Cultural Origin option on the 2021 Census was selected the most out of a particular area, Mennonite is a separate option, as was German, Russian and many more
Interesting, but it makes sense. Most mapmakers rely on other people’s datasets. Now I am curious as to why the Albertan government has them as a separate category for ethnicities
The average assimilated German Canadian and a Mennonite in an isolated community live very different lifestyles, it makes sense not to lump them together. They obviously have a different culture.
Just be careful OP
The average person from Alberta will see the province is only colored like 5% blue and have a panic attack
Iykyk
Once you explain that blue means French they'll be pissed that there's any blue at all though
back 90s when i was kid in Russia i actually saw ads in news paper “work in Alberta, oil industry, salary from XXX”. that how easy was to get job in Alberta that time.
Easily one of the worst possible color schemes for a map. Sucks too since its information is pretty interesting.
For future reference, what specific colours are too close to each other? It may be because I've stared at this map a while but the shades are mostly distinct enough to read, no?(maybe except Russia)
I'm colourblind and literally cannot read this map. English and Canadian, for example, are virtually the same colour in the legend. Potentially a better way of distinguishing groups on the legend would be to use hatching or patterning alongside regular block colours.
I'm begging people to not use 7 shades of the same color for the legend, it's extremely difficult to read
As an Italian living in Australia, does the ethnic predominance have any effect on the area? I.e. culture, food, architecture and so on
In some ways, definitely. In the Ukrainian areas on the map you will see a 100-year-old onion-domed Orthodox and/or Greek Catholic church in nearly every town. Much less common in the rest of the province.
high effort post
Uh. Whole sections that are dominant Dene and Cree areas painted as European…
What?
I suggest you go through the data subdivision by subdivision yourself like I did and THEN say that
Given that apparently only 1.59% of Albertans speak German, there are suspiciously many "German" areas.
Assimilation is a thing lmao
Of course, but if you've assimilated into Anglo-Canadian culture what sense does it make to refer to yourself as "ethnically German"?