Neighborhoods or sections with a high concentration of Black people (middle-class, university)
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What are some neighborhoods in Canadian cities with a concentration of Black people? From what I know:
In the Halifax it would be the North End/Uniacke Square, Preston(especially North Preston), Cherrybrook, Hammonds Plains and parts of Dartmouth, among others.
In Edmonton, the area around 97 Street and 111 Avenue.
In Vancouver, the Strathcona area, Burnaby and Surrey, among others.
In Montreal, Little Burgundy, Saint-Henri, Montreal-Nord, among others
In Toronto, Rexdale(Etobicoke), Regent Park, Jane and Finch aka University Heights(No. York), parts of Scarborough like Malvern and West Hill among others; Lawrence Heights(No. York), Eglinton West(York) and many more.
What about cities like Ottawa, Windsor, Quebec City, Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, London, Hamilton, St. John's NB, Victoria, St. Catherines, Niagara Falls, Chatham-Kent and other communities?
I can only really vouch for Toronto. You are correct about Rexdale, Malvern, West Hill, the whole Jane "strip" aka Jane & Finch corridor (I've never heard of University Heights being used by anybody). Add "Little Somalia" (The northern strip of the Kingsview area along Dixon Rd.), and you have the neighborhood’s with the highest concentration of Black people.
Keep in mind that blacks might be over-represented as part of their overall percentage of the total population in these neighborhoods, but these are not majority Black neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are quite diverse. Everything from Russian to Vietnamese can be found in these neighbourhoods.
All in all, the Black population is pretty spread out in Toronto.
The situation in the suburbs of Toronto is even more spread out - here's some numbers of total population if you’re interested;
Black population
City of Toronto: 310,495
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GTA (suburbs of Toronto)
For Calgary, It was or is around 8 Avenue and 4 Street. In Charlottestown PEI, it was an area named "The Bog". In Hamilton, it is around this church, which is on John Street: Stewart Memorial Church
Little Burgundy, in Montreal, is the historical black community but it is a relatively small community. One would need to climb up to NDG (Notre-Dame-de-Grace) to find more of the Black community along with Snowdon and Cote-des-Neiges which are close by. Further west is Pierrefonds and further east one will find the biggest black areas mainly populated by Haitians and these neighborhoods are St-Michel, Montreal-Nord and RDP (Rivière des Prairies).
Little Burgundy, in Montreal, is the historical black community but it is a relatively small community. One would need to climb up to NDG (Notre-Dame-de-Grace) to find more of the Black community along with Snowdon and Cote-des-Neiges which are close by. Further west is Pierrefonds and further east one will find the biggest black areas mainly populated by Haitians and these neighborhoods are St-Michel, Montreal-Nord and RDP (Rivière des Prairies).
No, most, especially the big haitian community, is in the NE. In Montreal-Nord, St-Michel and RDP. While in the west (NDG, CDN and Little burgundy) it is mostly small pockets here and there.
In Ottawa black people are spread throughout the city, and no area of the city is really considered to be predominantly black.
The exceptions to the "even spread" would be the Somali community, who are concentrated in Herongate in south east Ottawa, Bayshore and the west end, and a few other areas. Unfortunately, these tend to be the least well off parts of the city.
Another possible exception would be blacks of more francophone origin (Haitians, Congolese, Senegalese, etc.), who tend to be concentrated in and around the Vanier area in the inner east end.
But once again, in no cases would the black populations make up majority in these neighbourhoods of Ottawa.
Across the river, in Gatineau, Quebec, black people are also spread all across the city. Perhaps even moreso than Ottawa. I live in an upper middle-class part of Gatineau and about 10% of the people on my street are black.
The vast majority of black residents of Gatineau are either Haitians or people from French-speaking African countries (Congo, Senegal, Rwanda, Benin, Togo, etc.).
I'm just talking about in high concentration, not necessarily predominately. I think Preston in Nova Scotia is the only predominately Black community in the country at around 69.4% Black. North Preston, in particular, might be close to 100% Black and East Preston also has a high percentage of Black people as well.
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