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	'''Romanian-Canadians''' are ] immigrants who have come to ] recently, or descendants of the Romanian immigrants, many of whom arrived in Canada and the ] between 1895 and 1920. Sources estimates that there are about 400,000 Romanians in Canada. ]

	Romanian Canadian came to Canada in several periods. The first period was at the beginning of the century, between 1900-1918. The second period was between 1940-1950, when Romanians came after the ], at a time when Romania was in the worst and most difficult
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	financial period in its history. In this period, 460,000 Romanian citizens left their country. Another wave of Romanian emigration to Canada occurred after 1989 following the ], when people obtained the right to leave Romania subsequent to the fall of ] in ]. The wave intensified after the ] of 13-15 June 1990. After 1998, for the fourth time, a large number of Romanians were leaving Europe to come to Canada.

	In 2001, there were 131,830 Canadian residents who identified themselves as of Romanian origin, of which 53,320 were single-origin Romanians and 78,505 were of mixed Romanian and other origins. The largest concentrations of Romanian-Canadians are in the ] (aprox. 75 000) and in the ] (aprox. 40 000).

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	According to the 2001 Census, the number of people of Romanian mother tongue in Canada was 50,895 and 61,330 Canadians claimed to speak Romanian. The number of people born in ] was 61,330 and 2,380 were born in ].

	Immigration from Romania had been increasing in recent years. Figures from ] show that the annual number of new permanent residents from Romania increased from and average of over 3,700 per year in the late 1990s to an average of over 5,500 per year since 2001.
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	{\|border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
	\|+ '''New Canadian permanent residents from Romania'''
	\|-
	!Year
	!Number <b>of people
	\|-
	\|1995
	\| align="right" \|3,851
	\|-
	\|1996
	\| align="right" \|3,670
	\|-
	\|1997
	\| align="right" \|3,916
	\|-
	\|1998
	\| align="right" \|2,976
	\|-
	\|1999
	\| align="right" \|3,467
	\|-
	\|2000
	\| align="right" \|4,431
	\|-
	\|2001
	\| align="right" \|5,588
	\|-
	\|2002
	\| align="right" \|5,688
	\|-
	\|2003
	\| align="right" \|5,465
	\|-
	\|2004
	\| align="right" \|5,655
	\|}
	<small>Source: </small>

	==Notable Romanian-Canadians==

	===Arts===
	* ] - ]
	* ] - famous painter
	* ] - ]

	===Fashion===
	* ] - ]
	===Literature===
	* ] - linguist, author and rabbi; received the Order of Canada in 1978
	* ] - ]

	===Music===
	* ] - ] and ]

	===Science===
	* ] - architect and businessman
	* ] - ]
	* ] - physicist and mathematician
	* ] - professor of neuroscience at Laval University in ]
	===Politics===
	* ] - mayor of Roxboro
	* ] - architect and mayor of Dorval
	* ] - former mayor of Roxboro and major leader of the anti-merger movement on the Island of Montreal in 2000-2001
	===Sports===
	* ] - ]
	* ] - boxer; lightweight world champion
	* ] - NHL player
	* ] - retired NHL player
	* ] - NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs)
	* ] - poker champion

	Canadian general, diplomat and peacekeeper ] was born in ] to a Scottish father and an American mother.

	==See also==
	*]
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	==References==
	* .
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