Talk:List of Canadian cities with large Chinese populations

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[edit] Victoria BC

Victoria, BC is not on this list. I read somewhere that the Han make up 42% of the population of Victoria. I believe the pop singer Nelly Furtado is from Victoria, but I am not sure where I read the figure. Victoria is a long ferry ride away from Seattle and I believe they have a gaslight district.mcdogm--64.12.116.203 12:15, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, Nelly Furtado definitely isn't Chinese (unless she's half-Chinese, which I've never heard of). But NO, Victoria definitely does NOT have a 42% Han population; I'd venture that not even Victoria's Chinatown area has 42% Chinese-ethnic residents. The 2001 Canadian Census] gives a Chinese-ethnic population 11,720 for the Victoria metropolitan area (online data does not break down by municipality) out of a total population of 306,970; 2,310 people of Chinese origin gave at least one other ethnic origin as well, indicating a very high intermarriage rate in the 20% range. I don't think Victoria's Chinese population has ever been that high, not even during the gold rush, when maybe 20-30% of the early city may have been Chinese (no exact figures are known).Skookum1 08:40, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of other ethnic populations

There are a variety of different pages swarming around the Chinese in North America/Canada - Chinatown patterns in North America, Chinatowns in North America, Chinatown (which includes lengthy sections on same, Chinese Canadian, Canadian Chinese cuisine, American Chinese cuisine, and yet more, including individual-city Chinatown and neo-Chinatown articles (Chinatown (Vancouver) and Golden Village as respective examples); the Chinatown and "patterns" article invariably blend - as always - Canada and the US as if they were the same place (NOT); there's other Chinese-North America articles (probably a list of Canadians of Chinese ancestry and who knows what else). What I don't understand is why the self-fascination with Chinese data in Canada; and why several articles are needed when obviously three or four of them need to be merged; and the "Chinatown patterns" article is entirely USA-centric in content/tone. There aren't any articles like List of Canadian cities with large Irish populations or List of Canadian cities with large German populations or even List of Canadian cities with large aboriginal populations, or even List of Canadian cities with large Punjabi populations. I'm placing merge tags where needed, but generally it's a little off-putting to see so much ethno-vanity articles that have so much overlap, and often contain contradictory and downright a-historical and a-factual information; no other group in Canada has so much self-coverage. Is it really necessary to write SO MANY ARTICLES for what is essentially the SAME TOPIC??? If you're so industrious, maybe take an interest in the history of other Canadian ethnic groups and learn something about the rest of us...Skookum1 08:52, 15 November 2006 (UTC)