Bangladeshi Canadians
Bangladeshi Canadians are Canadian citizens of Bangladeshi descent or a Bangladesh-born person who resides in Canada. It is estimated that 24,595 Bangladeshi people who live in Canada,[2] primarily in provinces like Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta. They live in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa. There are many Bangladeshi shops and restaurants in Toronto's Danforth Village between Dawes Road and Victoria Park Avenue.
Demographics
The official number of Bangladeshi Canadians as of 2006 is only 24,600. According to Statistics Canada, the Bangladeshi-Canadian population as determined by the 2006 census in the ten Canadian provinces and three territories were:[3]
Canadian cities with large Bangladeshi populations:[16]
Prominent Bangladeshi-Canadians
- Amit Chakma, president of University of Western Ontario; from the ethnic Chakma tribe in southeast Bangladesh
- Dana Abraham Hannan, model, actor and amateur boxer
- Naz Hossain, in the field of high corporate finance with Investors Group Inc.; parents from Bangladesh; born in Yugoslavia and raised in Singapore and Malaysia
- Delwar Jahid, journalist, academic and writer; president of Bangladesh PressClub of Alberta and Bangladesh Heritage and Ethnic Society of Alberta; currently in Edmonton; from Bangladesh
- Ron Mustafaa, Hollywood TV actor, appeared on MTV's Skins
- Shaan Rahman, actor and stuntman, moved to Vancouver aged 19
- Samiul Rian, actor and model
See also
References
- ↑ Statistics Canada. "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ (Ethnic Origin (247), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data)
- ↑ Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables (choose desired city in the left column and look under the term "Bangladeshi" in the chart)
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- ↑ Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations - 20% sample data