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Great, thanks for pulling those statistics. Anyway you could pull the same for Montreal?
Haitian 107,720
Jamaican 10,365
Congolese 9,840
Haitians dominate the Montreal community in Montreal, with Jamaicans and Congolese both around 10,000.
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I also wonder which US cities would be similar in composition if you focus on the foreign born and 2nd generation black communities.
There are some Black foreign born figures available. As for ethnic groups, I don't know how to get figures that include numbers for only those that identify as Black, such as for Trinidadians and Guyanese. So the data would be more approximate.
I think this would make an interesting thread in its own right, perhaps in the general US section where more American posters are likely to be reading.
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Also do they do the same for the Latin American population? As far as who identifies as black?
Latin American is a visible minority group itself. StatsCan marks only those with a single Latin American response as Latin American (the same is true with Arabs and West Asians). In the case of Latin Americans, many write in "white" so the visible minority Latin American designation undercounts the Latin American population quite significantly, it's probably about 20% higher. This data that breaks down ethnic origin groups by visible minority group is only available for the top 100 reported ethnic origins. Only 3% of Brazilians identify as Black, and among other groups reported (Mexican, Colombian, Salvadorean, Chilean and Peruvian) it's less than 1%.
Haitians dominate the Montreal community in Montreal, with Jamaicans and Congolese both around 10,000.
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Interesting. I knew there were Jamaicans in Montreal but didn't know there were that many. I suppose most have been there for quite some time. A number of African countries like Senegal and Rwanda are probably on the verge of passing Jamaica though, and Congo has probably passed it some time ago.
Some Montrealers of Jamaican origin (pretty sure of this):
Exactly. Especially considering half of the Trinidadian population in Toronto does not identify as black. .
Gregory Charles' (the guy in my other post) father is Trinadadian black, but most Trinadadians I have met in Ottawa seemed to look more Indian, and were of the Hindu faith.
Yeah, Jamaicans are pretty much everywhere, we love to move around
The Jamaican diaspora outnumbers Jamaicans still living on the Island. So you can bump into us quite a few places around the globe. But Jamaican migration has slowed in recent years and we will probably never see the wave we did in the previous decades.
I think this would make an interesting thread in its own right, perhaps in the general US section where more American posters are likely to be reading.
The figures I shared for Ottawa are people who meet the following criteria:
- Specifically identify as Black visible minority
- Live in the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA, both the Ontario and Quebec parts.
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