This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Abce2 (talk | contribs) at 03:37, 26 December 2009 (Quick-adding category People (using HotCat)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 03:37, 26 December 2009 by Abce2 (talk | contribs) (Quick-adding category People (using HotCat))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Ethnic group   Oscar Peterson • John A. Macdonald • Wayne Gretzky | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 Canada 33,900,000 | |
 United States | 1,003,850 |
 Hong Kong | 200,000 |
 United Kingdom | 72,518 |
 Taiwan | 52,500 |
 Peoples Republic of China | 40,000 |
 Australia | 27,289 |
 Lebanon | 21,000 |
 South Korea | 8,763 |
 New Zealand | 7,770 |
 Philippines | 7,500 |
 Japan | 7,067 |
 Mexico | 5,768 |
| Languages | |
| Officially Canadian English, and Canadian French | |
| Religion | |
| Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism | |
The people of Canada, or simply Canadians (fr. peuples du Canada, les Canadiens), are citizens of Canada. Canada is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Canadians don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins. Aside from the indigenous Aboriginal peoples of Canada, nearly all Canadians or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.
The vast majority of Canadians live in Canada, however there are approximately 2,800,000 Canadians abroad as of 2009. This represents 7.62% of the total Canadian population. Of those abroad the United States, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, China and Australia have the largest Canadian diaspora.
Ethnic groups
There is a great diversity of ethnic groups among Canadians, coming from all continents, except for Antarctica.
Canadians of European origin: Norwegian Canadian, Polish Canadian, Portuguese Canadian, Russian Canadian, Scottish Canadian, Serbian Canadian, Swedish Canadian, Ukrainian Canadian, Welsh Canadian, Macedonian Canadians, Irish Canadian, Italian Canadian, Croatian Canadian, Danish Canadian, Dutch Canadian, English Canadian, Finnish Canadian, French Canadian, German Canadian, Greek Canadian, Hungarian Canadian, Icelandic Canadian, and Bulgarian Canadian.
Canadians of Asian origin: Asian Canadian, Chinese Canadian, Japanese Canadian, Arab Canadian, Indo-Canadian, Lebanese Canadian and Korean Canadian.
Canadians of North and South American, and African origin: Jamaican Canadian, Haitian Canadians, Canadians of Trinidad and Tobago origin, Canadians of Barbadian origin, Native Canadian, Canadians of Guyanese descent, Cape Verdean Canadian, Black Canadian, American Canadian, Latin American Canadian, Mexican Canadian, Colombian Canadian, Latino Canadian, Nigerian Canadians.
References
- http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/population.htm
- ^ http://www.asiapacific.ca/sites/default/files/filefield/PP_09_5_DD_estimate.pdf
- "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/middleeast-crisis/canada-lebanon.html
- http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/28/canada-emigration-c.html