Canada is a diverse country, with jobs that reflect that diversity.

Below is our interactive map of what we're calling the most distinctive jobs for each province. Some might seem predictable — jobs such as longshore workers in B.C., petroleum engineers in Alberta and fishing vessel deckhands in Nova Scotia top the lists in those places, for example.

But it may come as a surprise to learn that visiting homemakers and housekeepers claim the top slot in Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as Manitoba. Other provinces show equally interesting results.

Scroll through and see what job is the most distinctive where you live (and check out our methodology here for an explanation of what, exactly, we're classifying as a province's most "disproportionately popular" job).

(We asked for a similar breakdown for Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories, but were told by Statistics Canada that the data quality of detailed occupations for those places wasn't sufficient for publishing.)

The U.S. keeps similar data calculated by the Labour Department's Occupational Employment Statistics operation every few years. We saw this map put together by Vox.com and wondered what the Canadian equivalent would look like.

Here's an infographic that lays out the top unique occupations in each province. Job descriptions are all listed at the bottom of the page.

How we did it

First off, this is not a list of the most common job for each province — that title goes to something to do with retail, in every province Statistics Canada has data for.

Instead, this is a visual look at what the data agency calls "location quotients," a calculation of whether any given job is disproportionately more common in one area compared with how common it is, on average, across the country.

We got the number first by calculating the share of employees in each occupational grouping at both the national and provincial level. Second, the share of each occupation at the provincial level was divided by the share of each occupation at the national level, giving the ratio of the number of employees in the occupation in each province relative to the national level.

So the figure 4.2 for "underground production and development miners" in Saskatchewan, for example, means there are 4.2 times more of them there than in the rest of the country, in terms of how prevalent they are as a percentage of all jobs in that area.

Put another way, you're 4.2 times more likely to be a miner in Saskatchewan than you are anywhere else in Canada.

The occupations with the highest ratio and with at least 1,500 employees in the province are the ones listed above. And once again, this data should not be confused with most common occupations. In fact, many of them have small numbers of employees in each province; they just have the highest ratio relative to the national share of such occupations.