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  © Copyright: (C) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.cbc.ca/aboutcbc/discover/termsofuse.htm... The mother and daughter will be dancing together at Aboriginal Day celebrations at The Forks in June. Jillian Taylor/CBC Growing families and changes to self-reported identification are driving major growth in both Manitoba's and Canada's aboriginal population, Statistics Canada reports. Canada can expect between 1.1 per cent and 2.3 per cent annual growth in the indigenous population, compared to 0.9 per cent for the general Canadian population, the agency says in a new report, Projections of the aboriginal population and households in Canada, 2011 to 2036. Manitoba and Saskatchewan were singled out by Statistics Canada as the two provinces with the highest proportion of aboriginal people. By 2036, one in five residents in both provinces will be First Nations people, Métis, Inuit or belong to another indigenous group, the federal agency predicts. Ontario, however, will continue to have the highest number of aboriginal people in the country. The growth is being fuelled by a higher birth rate among the indigenous population and more people self-identifying as aboriginal, Statistics Canada says. There were 1,502,000 aboriginal Canadians in 2011, the agency said. By 2036, that number will grow to between 1,965,000 and 2,633,000 people, StatsCan predicts.