  | |
| Total population | |
| 207,470 (by ancestry, 2016 Census)[1] 0.6% of Canada's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Western Canada · Ontario | |
| Languages | |
| English · French · Danish | |
| Religion | |
| Traditionally Lutheranism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Danes · Greenlanders · Danish Americans |
Danish Canadians (Danish: Dansk-canadiere) are Canadian citizens of Danish ancestry. According to the 2006 Census, there were 200,035 Canadians with Danish background,[2] 17,650 of whom were born in Denmark.[3]
Canada became an important destination for the Danes during the post-war period. At one point, a Canadian immigration office was to be set up in Copenhagen.[4] While most of the post-war immigrants settled in large cities, Danish-Canadian communities can be found in all of Canada's ten provinces.
The oldest Danish community in Canada is New Denmark, New Brunswick, first inhabited by Danish immigrants in 1872.[citation needed]
- ^ "Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables". statcan.gc.ca. 25 October 2017.
- ^ "Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census". Archived from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
- ^ "Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (8) and Place of Birth (261) for the Immigrants and Non-permanent Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan A..." Archived from the original on 2015-10-19. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ^ Bender, Henning. Danish emigration to Canada