Canada Immigration by Country

Well, you arn't foreigners or immigrants. Technically the Englishmen who founded Canada would be.

I thought so too ┐( ∵ )┌

This list only includes those who become Canadian citizens, not temporary workers. There are about 25k Australian immigrants in Canada, making them #60 on the list of countries of origin. Personally I live in the GTA and don't know any Australian immigrants, but I've met plenty of immigrants from almost every country on this quiz except Haiti & France (not surprising since most of them live in Quebec). Not sure where you live, but I think most Australian immigrants concentrate in BC and aren't really that common in the rest of the country.

The migrant worker program brings lots of Jamaicans to Canada in the summer to work in vineyards and orchards. Might not be the whole story but its gotta be at least part of it.

Jamaicans as a former British colony was a preferential immigrant group until the 1970s. In addition many Jamaicans moved to the UK after independence and then later moved to Canada for better opportunities..

A lot of Caribbean immigrants come to Canada, and Jamaica is the most populous Anglophone country in the Caribbean, so naturally has the largest diaspora in Canada. Most Jamaicans come to Toronto (NYC and London have large Jamaican diasporas as well), while most Haitians go to Montreal (because of shared French language). There are also large diasporas of other Anglophone Caribbean countries here (including 85k Guyanese, 65k Trinidadians; at one point 3 of my 4 neighbours were Guyanese/Trinidadian, but two of them moved away now). Jamaicans by far make up the largest share of Black Canadians, for example about 1/3rd of my church is Black, of which more than half of them are Jamaicans. Actually, a lot of local "Toronto slang" is originally from Jamaican origin, which interestingly is why Toronto and London slang share some similarities.

First Nations people are not immigrants or foreigners, and not everyone born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American, many people have not a single ancestor, (say from 1,000 years ago) who lived in the Americas.

I don't think those subpopulations left any descendants, or at very least left zero sign of continuation of cultural traits in the native peoples of that area. Norse settlement in both Baffin Island and Newfoundland were marginal outposts of the marginal colony of Greenland. Pretty sure that the site in Baffin Island was just a temporary trade depot, and the site in Newfoundland was a couple of families and lasted 50 years tops.

Honestly, I'd rather have to learn Mandarin than Spanish. Canada, here I come!

Trudeau vs Trump?? I'd go with the former even if I had to learn Mandarin which is a ridiculous proposition.

Canada merging with America would be the very worst thing any Prime Minister would make. Canada is much better being independent.

It would be "hordes" of Chinese immigrants, not "hoards," but more important are congratulations on coming up with a intellectually breathtaking argument that nobody's ever heard before. I'm quaking in my boots just thinking about the Chinese coming for my personal space! Next time use a few more brain cells before downing another forkful of whatever nativist garbage you've been gorging on.

i just type UK

Many came from the Azores islands. Previous to the revolution that overthrew Salazar, Portugal was quite poor especially the Azores islands.

I have. But not in Canada.

A very high proportion of portuguese born canadians are in the golden horseshoe and Montréal metropolitan region. It's unlikely to meet them outside of those urban areas.

This is about immigrants, not descendants.

Mexicans are the largest temporary worker group in Canada, but most don't become citizens

I was also a bit surprised at that, but I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't far off the list. Jiaozira kinda explained it to me on this quiz: the Bangladeshi population in Canada still isn't huge but it's growing very rapidly.

remember that many sri lankans (especially tamils) sought asylum in canada due to the multiple escalations of the sri lankan civil war

130k Sri Lankan immigrants vs. 70k Bangladeshis. Most of the South Asians in Scarborough are Sri Lankan Tamils, and Sri Lankans are common across the GTA in North York, Mississauga, Brampton, etc. I know many Sri Lankan immigrants but only met a couple of Bangladeshis---most Bangladeshis are concentrated mainly in southern Scarborough.

Theres about 90k Haitian immigrants in Canada so they almost made it

Lmao

I'm not too surprised, the Jamaican and the Lebanese populations are more highly concentrated in Ontario.

"- 38.0% of Canadian residents in 2011 were foreign-born immigrants or their Canada-born children

-- 26.7% of Canadian Children under 15y/o in 2011 were the children of immigrants

-- 31.5% of Children in 2021

Given current trends, as of today about 7% of the Canadian resident population is now a "Non-Permanent Resident" -- their share of the population has more than tripled since 2016."

Hey, we're living in interesting times! I wonder if they'll be incentivized to vote for certain parties based on personal reward?!