Where else do carribean people migrate besides Florida? (cities, Haitian)

[nycjowww]

Originally Posted by testa50

New York accounts for over 50% of the total, which means that LA's share of the total is quite small, despite being in the top 10. Most of the individual islands don't have very high raw numbers, on account of their small size.

true.

[nycjowww]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Rochester NY, DC, Nashua NH, Buffalo and Springfield MA.

hell yea i go to Montreal a lot and all the blacks up their seem to be Haitian and to small extent Jamaican.


Toronto from what i hear is mostly black Caribbean with jamaicans running the show.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by nycjowww

hell yea i go to Montreal a lot and all the blacks up their seem to be Haitian and to small extent Jamaican.


Toronto from what i hear is mostly black Caribbean with jamaicans running the show.

There are quite a few Bajans in those Canadian cities. Same with Trinis too. Even in the other major Canadian cities, that is the case as well. Ottawa has a lot of Haitians due to being right next to Quebec.

I know that Detroit has a few too. Some other Upstate NY cities get some spillover due to location.

[nycjowww]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

There are quite a few Bajans in those Canadian cities. Same with Trinis too. Even in the other major Canadian cities, that is the case as well. Ottawa has a lot of Haitians due to being right next to Quebec.

I know that Detroit has a few too. Some other Upstate NY cities get some spillover due to location.

yea a lot of bajans and trinis mostly in the toronto area but the numbers arent even close to jamaicans.

Also i heard detroits Caribbean community is almost non-existent.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by nycjowww

yea a lot of bajans and trinis mostly in the toronto area but the numbers arent even close to jamaicans.

Also i heard detroits Caribbean community is almost non-existent.

There are PR's in SW Detroit and I've met people of a Caribbean background from Detroit when I was going to college in MI.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by nycjowww

hell yea i go to Montreal a lot and all the blacks up their seem to be Haitian and to small extent Jamaican.
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Haitians are the largest established community but people from francophone Africa are the fastest-growing segment of the black community in Quebec. They will likely outnumber Haitians in the near future and in some areas they already form the majority of black residents.

[ThroatGuzzler]

I think Toronto has the largest Jamaican population in all of NA. Miami might be close though.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by ThroatGuzzler

I think Toronto has the largest Jamaican population in all of NA. Miami might be close though.

I don't know as NYC has quite a few......Boston is up there as well.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Haitians are the largest established community but people from francophone Africa are the fastest-growing segment of the black community in Quebec. They will likely outnumber Haitians in the near future and in some areas they already form the majority of black residents.

True, as there are quite a few folks from the Congo/Zaire, Senegal, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast, among some other nations. Little Burgundy/Saint Henri/SW Montreal has been where the Black community has been concentrated for many years in the area, but it has expanded to other areas of the metro.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

True, as there are quite a few folks from the Congo/Zaire, Senegal, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast, among some other nations. Little Burgundy/Saint Henri/SW Montreal has been where the Black community has been concentrated for many years in the area, but it has expanded to other areas of the metro.

Interestingly enough, most of the pioneers of the black community in Montreal were generally English-speaking. People like musicians Oliver Jones and Oscar Peterson are their descendants. They settled in the areas you described.

Haitians only started arriving in large numbers in the 1960s, but they quickly became the most numerous group and the image of blacks in Montreal soon equalled "Haitian" in the minds of many people. Haitians were/are traditionally concentrated in the northeast part of Montreal (Montréal-Nord, Rivière-des-Prairies), although they are quite numerous and found all over Montreal, its suburbs and even across Quebec, and also spill over in fair numbers into places just across the border like Ottawa.

I have not yet been able to detect a precise settlement pattern for francophone Africans in Quebec, or for any national communities within this large and diverse group.