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| Spanish 325,730 Canadians (2006)
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| Vancouver · Toronto · Montreal |
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Canadians of Spanish descent are also known as Spanish Canadians or Spaniard Canadians, in Spanish as Hispano-Canadienses, and in French as Canadiens Espagnols.
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The population of Canadians self-identified as of Spanish descent is 325,730, including those with multiple ethnic backgrounds.[1]
Spanish Canadians are mostly concentrated in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.
Spaniards are found in all areas of the city of Montreal as well as in suburbs such as Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Laval, Brossard and Greenfield Park. There is no "Spanish quartier", but Montreal’s Rue Saint-Laurent is home to a number of Spanish associations, as well as to the Librería Española.[2]
Spanish people first set on what is now Canadian land in the south-western part of what is now British Columbia in 1791. They made land claims there until the Spanish Empire lost that land to the British in 1818.
Present day Spanish populations did not appear in Ontario and Quebec until the mid to late 20th century.
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