You knew that!
Do you know the significance?
In Canada 11 May 2021 is census day.
The census questions are posted here. Will you be selected to complete the short or long form?
If you received the long form you will have to give your county of birth, parents' counties of birth and your ethnicity. That's where it gets interesting. How do you choose?
There's a discussion of the historical background on the ethnicity question in the article Who Am I? Reflections on Measuring Ethnic Ancestry in Canada by Jane Badets, who served as Canada’s Assistant Chief Statistician, in The Personal Past: History, Identity and the Genealogical Impulse.
Do you select the one (or more) you feel most aligned with? The options are laid out at www12.statcan.gc.ca/ancestry.
Maybe these days you'd turn to DNA test results, perhaps having to reconcile conflicting results from different companies.
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