Editing British Columbia (section)

===Cultural origins===
British Columbia is the most diverse province in Canada; as of 2021, the province had the highest proportion of [[visible minority|visible minorities]] in the country. The five largest [[Panethnicity|pan-ethnic]] groups in the province are [[European Canadians|Europeans]] (60 percent), [[East Asian Canadians|East Asians]] (14 percent), [[South Asian Canadians|South Asians]] (10 percent), [[Indigenous Canadians|Indigenous]] (6 percent) and [[Southeast Asia]]ns (5 percent).<ref name="2021A00051209034">{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Statistics Canada |date=October 26, 2022 |title= Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0&DGUIDlist=2021A00051209034&SearchText=halifax |access-date=July 4, 2023 |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref>

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|+ Top ethnic origins in BC (2016 census)<ref name="2016CensusBCEthnicOrigin" />{{Efn|Note: Statistics represent both single (for example, "German") and multiple (for example, "Chinese-English") responses to the 2016 Census, and thus do not add up to 100 percent. All items are self-identified.}}
|-
!#
!Ethnic origin
!Population
!Percent
|-
| 1
| [[English people|English]]
| 1,203,540
| 26.39%
|-
| 2
| [[Canadian ethnicity|Canadian]]
| 866,530
| 19%
|-
| 3
| [[Scottish people|Scottish]]
| 860,775
| 18.88%
|-
| 4
| [[Irish people|Irish]]
| 675,135
| 14.80%
|-
| 5
| [[Ethnic German|German]]
| 603,265
| 13.23%
|-
| 6
| [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]]
| 540,155
| 11.84%
|-
| 7
| [[French people|French]]
| 388,815
| 8.53%
|-
| 8
| [[Indian Canadians|Indian]]
| 309,315
| 6.78%
|-
| 9
| [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]]
| 229,205
| 5.03%
|-
| 10
| [[Indigenous Canadian]]
| 220,245
| 4.83%
|}