| Many children now report multiple ethnic ancestries as a result of increasing intermarriage. |
| Changes in mitochondrial genes can happen only by mutation, and the accumulation of such mutations can be used to trace ancestries. |
| Intermarriage appears to explain the increasing number of people who report multiethnic ancestries. |
| The most frequently reported ancestries, either single or multiple response, were English, Scottish, Canadian, German and Irish. |
| They purposely sought community members from different ancestries to highlight intercultural living. |
| People who reported Aboriginal ancestries, and British and French origins, comprised the lion's share of the population at that time. |
