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[edit] White Canadian

I was under the impression that a "White Canadian" was a cocktail, but it redirected here. Anybody? Ich (talk) 09:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits of statistics

Concerning the edits by 24.226.10.98, is there any evidence that the changed information is true? As several percentages remained unchanged while the numbers changed wildly, I assumed it was vandalism, though I could be wrong.

[edit] Ethnic origins

At the ethnic origins, there are a lot of nationalities, but there are not the Romanians. In Canada there officialy 400,000 Romanians, and that is it not mentioned over there.When I write it, everytime somebody takes that down. User:NorbertArthur 11:01 04 December 2005

  • The official numbers can be found from Statistics Canada 2001 Census. In 2001 there were 131,830 people who identified themselves as of Romanian origin, of which 53,320 were "pure" Romanians and 78,505 were of mixed Romanian and other origins. The number of people of Romanian mother tongue in Canada was 50,895, see here. Number of people born in Romania was 60,165 (which also includes ethnic Hungarians, Germans, and Jews), and 2,300 born in Moldova [1]. There is a lot of ethnic "boosterism" in Canada and many exaggerated numbers floating around for different ethnic groups. Things like Toronto is the third or fourth largest Italian city in the world, half a million Chinese-Canadians can't speak English, etc. If we added up every ethnic boosterism claim, Canada would have a couple of hundred million population. But the only valid, verifiable and official numbers are from the Census. That's why your changes keep on getting reverted. Luigizanasi 16:49, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Largest European Ancestries

Pasting this here after cutting it from Canada.

  • English - 20.2%
  • French - 15.7%
  • Scottish - 14%
  • Irish - 12.9%
  • German - 9.3%
  • Italian - 4.3%
  • Scandinavian - 3.6%
  • Ukrainian - 3.6%
  • Dutch - 3.1%
  • Polish - 2.8%

[2]

...in case it is useful. Jkelly 18:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Slightly different topic, but the article mentions that Jamaicans make up 7% of Canada's population. When you click on the link to go to the page entitled "Jamaican Canadians", it says that there are 260,000 or so Jamaicans in Canada. Have we just mysteriously lost several million in population, or is there a misplacement of a decimal?

--Mattthemutt 22:04, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I've adjusted per your find - it now says "0.7%", although it would be best if whoever created the list in the first place could get the exact figure. I've also moved "Jamaican" to the "Other" section as it was in "European". --Ckatzchatspy 22:37, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Ah, thanks very much. --Mattthemutt 23:58, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maronite?

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where (mainly Lebanese) Maronite christians are included in the statistics for religion? There are a lot here, I was just wondering. Dan Carkner 14:24, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know, but they are part of the Catholic Communion... --Charlene 04:55, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Visible minorities

Why does the statistics lump the Vietnamese Canadians with Southeast Asians while listing the Koreans and Japanese separately? Vietnamese Canadians outnumber these two groups by a significant margin. 207.178.224.50 18:03, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


Because Vietnamese share common linguistic family with Cambodian and Vietnam lies in Southeast Asia, although Vietnamese share a common culture with Chinese. Sonic99 20:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename from demographics to demography

Please see Talk:Demography#Demographics_vs_demography_confusion and comment.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why not use 2006 statistics?

Canada had a census in 2006, am I wrong? We need to update the charts showing population growth from 1996 to 2001.

Yes, we do need to. Lexicon (talk) 02:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The data pertaining to visible minorities and ethnic groups has just been released by Statscan for the 2006 census. It is time to update those sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.246.165 (talk) 06:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map request

Map needed
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This article could use a population density map. -- Beland 19:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the licensing on this one; though it would be nice to show city names as here but without all the side graphics. -- Beland 19:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Statistics Canada maps are copyrighted, someone would need to re-create it from the data (which is sadly not free or I'd do it). Kmusser 13:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Religions

Does anybody know where to find a source so as to use newer statistics for the religion section rather than 2001? Ghyslyn —Preceding comment was added at 11:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)