Russian Canadians

Data from this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[3]

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

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

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[5]

• Total: 55,230
• Single response: 15,800
• Multiple response: 39,435

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[6]

• Total: 49,275
• Single response: 14,315
• Multiple response: 34,960

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[7]

• Total: 220,850
• Single response: 53,175
• Multiple response: 167,675

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[8]

• Total: 139,915
• Single response: 40,570
• Multiple response: 99,340

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[9]

• Total: 15,620 (represents ~90% of total Ottawa-Gatineau CMA)
• Single response: 3,205
• Multiple response: 12,415

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[10]

• Total: 58,225
• Single response: 9,510
• Multiple response: 48,720

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[11]

• Total: 29,575
• Single response: 3,580
• Multiple response: 26,000

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[12]

• Total: 39,390
• Single response: 3,645
• Multiple response: 35,745

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[13]

• Total: 13,280
• Single response: 1,360
• Multiple response: 11,925

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[14]

• Total: 107,800
• Single response: 14,320
• Multiple response: 93,480

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[15]

• Total: 37,955
• Single response: 6,125
• Multiple response: 31,830

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[16]

• Total: 28,275
• Single response: 3,325
• Multiple response: 24,945

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[17]

• Total: 131,060
• Single response: 22,145
• Multiple response: 108,910

Data in this section from Statistics Canada, 2016.^[18]

• Total: 58,535
• Single response: 11,145
• Multiple response: 47,395

Many British Columbians of Russian descent are Doukhobors, historically concentrated in the West Kootenay and Boundary Country regions.

^[19]

• Harvey Atkin – voice-over actor
• Alex Battler – writer
• Arnold Belkin – painter
• Sasha Clements – actress, Majority Rules!
• Ludmilla Chiriaeff – ballet dancer, choreographer and company director
• Victor Garber – actor, Titanic, Argo, Star Trek
• Natalie Glebova – Miss Universe 2005, Miss Universe Canada 2005
• Anais Granofsky – actress, Degrassi Junior High
• Michelle Gurevich – singer, formerly known as "Chinawoman"
• Boris Hambourg – cellist
• Melissa Hayden – ballet dancer
• Julia Ivanova - documentary filmmaker
• Jessica Parker Kennedy – actress, The Secret Circle, Smallville, Black Sails
• 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^[20]
• Greta Onieogou - actress
• 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
• Sasha Roiz – actor
• Aleksei Serebryakov – actor
• Elena Semikina – Miss Universe Canada 2010
• Socalled – musician
• Ksenia Solo – actress, Black Swan^[21]
• Madeline Sonik – writer
• Jessica Trisko – Miss Earth 2007
• Boris Volkoff - ballet master, choreographer, "the father of Canadian ballet"
• Watts – produced for Method Man, Redman, and Snoop Dogg^[22]
• Adele Wiseman – author

• 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)

• 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^[23]
• Peter Vasilevich Verigin – Doukhobor leader
• Pyotr Verzilov – activist
• Roman Baber – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

• 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
• Leonid Ivanovich Strakhovsky - professor, pioneered Slavic studies at the University of Toronto^[24]

• Nik Antropov – hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) and the KHL
• Ivan Babikov – Olympic cross-country skier
• Artur Beterbiev – professional boxer
• Patricia Bezzoubenko – rhythmic gymnast
• Boris Blumin – chess grandmaster
• Mark Bluvshtein – chess grandmaster
• Debbie Brill – high-jumper^[25]
• Édouard Carpentier – professional wrestler
• Joshua Ho-Sang – hockey player with the OHL
• Mike Chernoff – ice hockey^[25]
• Rob Chernoff – swimmer^[25]
• Tim Cheveldae – ice hockey^[25]
• Kevin Cheveldayoff – ice hockey
• Yelena Davydova – gymnastics
• Shawn Horcoff – ice hockey
• Igor Ivanov – chess grandmaster
• Pete Knight – rodeo bronc rider^[25]
• Lioudmila Kortchaguina – marathon runner
• Crazy Leo – rally driver
• Andrei Markov – NHL hockey player
• Olga Ovtchinnikova – Olympic fencer
• Andrei Rogozine – world champion figure skater
• Mikhail "Misha" Goikhberg – racing driver
• Bobbie Rosenfeld – Olympic gold medalist
• Denis Shapovalov – tennis player
• Igor Tikhomirov – Olympic champion in fencing
• Marina Zoueva – ice dancing coach and choreographer

• Canada–Russia relations
• European Canadians
• Polish Canadians
• Ukrainian Canadians

• Simon Fraser University Digitized Newspapers website – digitized issues of Vestnik (Herald) newspaper, 1941–1993
• Richard A. Pierce – Russians in Canada