Icelandic Canadians

Icelandic Canadians
Íslensk-kanadískur (Icelandic)
Canadiens islandais (French)
Iceland Canada
Total population
101,795 (by ancestry),[1]
0.3% of Canada's population
Regions with significant populations
 Manitoba31,090
 British Columbia26,410
 Alberta20,225
 Ontario13,215
Languages
Canadian English · Canadian French · Icelandic
Religion
Christianity (Predominantly Protestant)
Related ethnic groups
Icelandic Americans
Faroese Canadians
Norwegian Canadians
Swedish Canadians, Danish Canadians,
Dutch Canadians, Flemish Canadians
See Icelanders

Icelandic Canadians (Icelandic: Íslensk-kanadískur) are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry, or Iceland-born people who reside in Canada.

Canada has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland, with about 101,795 people of full or partial Icelandic descent as of the Canada 2016 Census.[1] Of that population in Canada, Gimli, Manitoba, is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland.[2]

Many Icelandic Canadians are descendants of people who fled an eruption of the Icelandic volcano Askja in 1875.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Ethnic origin population". Statistics canada.
  2. ^ "How Gimli, Manitoba, became the world's biggest Icelandic community outside Iceland". canadiangeographic.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
  3. ^ "Protected Blog › Log in". strangemaps.wordpress.com.