Mormons

Mormons are a people associated with a religion that is indigenous to North America. The term Mormon, which comes from theBook of Mormon (1830), is the name by which the group is most popularly known, but its official name is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the 1991 Canadian census, 93,890 persons identified themselves as ‘Latter-day Saint (Mormon).’ Church records in the same year, which are based on the number of births, baptisms, deaths, and formal withdrawals from the group, indicate there were 130,000 Mormons in Canada as compared to 4.3 million in the United States and over 8 million worldwide.