18 METIS NA TION Of ONT ARIO Annu A l Repo R t 20122013 m e TI s people I n Canada A ccor ding to the 2011 Statistics Canada National Household Sur vey NHS 452560 Canadians selfidentifed as Metis That number compar es to 389780 who selfidentifed as Metis in the 2006 census In Ontario the number of people who selfidentifed as Metis r ose fr om 73605 in 2006 to 86020 in 2011 which r epr esents 19 per cent of all Metis in Canada Also accor ding to the NHS nearly 9 out of 10 people or 85 per cent who identifed themselves as Metis lived in either the wester n pr ovinces or Ontario 21 per cent lived in Alberta 19 per cent in Ontario 17 per cent in Manitoba 15 per cent in British Columbia and 12 per cent in Saskatchew an Acr oss Canada 28 per cent of the Metis population was 14 years of age or younger in 2011 That compar es to 16 per cent of the population in that age bracket amongst nonAboriginal people Metis ar e younger than the nonAboriginal population in Canada with a median age of 31 years compar ed with 40 for the nonAboriginal population Metis ar e also younger than the nonAboriginal population in Ontario with a median age of 35 years compar ed with 40 for Ontario s nonAboriginal population As was the case in 2006 in 2011 the majority of Metis continue to live in urban settings The cities with the lar gest Metis populations ar e d EM o G r APHI c S 28 of t he m et is populat ion in Canada was 14 years or younger in 2011 compar ed to 16 of t he non a boriginal populat ion s our ce 2011 n at ional Household s urvey T O r ONTO 9980 O TT A w A 6860 Sud B ur y 6460 Mid LAN d 3420 S A u L T S TE M A ri E 2995 Thu N d E r B A y 2445 Ti MM i NS 1860 N O r T h B A y 1860 K ENO r A 1185