Jamaican Canadians

Jamaican Canadians
Jamaico-Canadians
Total population
309,485
0.9% of Canada's population (2016)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Vancouver
Languages
Canadian English, Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, Canadian French
Religion
Christianity · Rastafari
Related ethnic groups
Jamaican British, British Indo-Caribbean people, Indo-Caribbeans, Multi-Racial British Caribbean, Jamaican Americans, Afro-Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, Germans in Jamaica, Jamaican Australians, Indo-Canadians, Chinese Canadians

Jamaican Canadians are Canadian citizens of Jamaican descent or Jamaican-born permanent residents of Canada. The population, according to Canada's 2021 Census, is 249,070.[2] Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census – Canada". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  2. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2023-02-02). "Jamaica and Canada: Connected by people, travel and trade". www.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference jamaicans was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Visible minority groups, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories - 20% sample data Archived 2017-11-14 at the Wayback Machine, Statistics Canada (2006). Retrieved on March 19, 2011.