Vietnamese Canadian
| Total population | |
|---|---|
|
220,425 (0.6% of Canada's population) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver | |
| Languages | |
| Vietnamese, Canadian English, Quebec French, Vietnamese French | |
| Religion | |
| Mahayana Buddhism and Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Vietnamese, Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese people in France |
Vietnamese Canadians (Vietnamese: Người Canada gốc Việt) are Canadian citizens who have ancestry from Vietnam. There are 157,450 Vietnamese Canadians, many of whom reside in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec.
Mainstream Vietnamese communities began arriving in Canada in the mid-1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, though a couple thousand were already living in Quebec before then, most of whom were students. Most new arrivees were sponsored by groups of individuals, temples, and churches and settled in areas around Southern Ontario, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Montreal, Quebec. Between 1975 and 1985, 110,000 settled in Canada (23,000 in Ontario; 13,000 in Quebec; 8,000 in Alberta; 7,000 British Columbia; 5,000 in Manitoba; 3,000 in Saskatchewan; and 2,000 in the Maritime provinces). As time passed, most eventually settled in urban centres like Vancouver (2.2% Vietnamese), Calgary (1.6% Vietnamese), Montreal (1.6% Vietnamese), Edmonton (1.6% Vietnamese), Toronto (1.4% Vietnamese), Ottawa (1.0% Vietnamese), and Hamilton (0.8% Vietnamese).
The next wave of Vietnamese migration came in the late 1980s and 1990s as both refugees and immigrant classes of post-war Vietnam entered Canada. These groups settled in urban areas, in particular Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary.
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