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Romanian-Canadians are Romanian immigrants who have come to Canada recently, or descendants of the Romanian immigrants, many of whom arrived in Canada and the United States 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 World War II, at a time when Romania was in the worst and most difficult

Romanian Festival of Toronto

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 Romanian Revolution of 1989, when people obtained the right to leave Romania subsequent to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. The wave intensified after the Mineriad 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 Greater Toronto Area (aprox. 75 000) and in the Greater Montreal Area (aprox. 40 000).

Romanian Day Festival in Toronto

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 Romania was 61,330 and 2,380 were born in Moldova.

Immigration from Romania had been increasing in recent years. Figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada 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.

Romanian Festival in Toronto
New Canadian permanent residents from Romania
Year Number of people
1995 3,851
1996 3,670
1997 3,916
1998 2,976
1999 3,467
2000 4,431
2001 5,588
2002 5,688
2003 5,465
2004 5,655

Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Notable Romanian-Canadians

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Politics

  • Ovidiu Baciu - mayor of Roxboro
  • Dinu Bumbaru - architect and mayor of Dorval
  • Adrian Micu - former mayor of Roxboro and major leader of the anti-merger movement on the Island of Montreal in 2000-2001

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Canadian general, diplomat and peacekeeper John de Chastelain was born in Bucharest to a Scottish father and an American mother.

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