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Indo-Canadians
Community of Canadians of Indian descent or with Indian citizenship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Indian Canadians" redirects here. For the Indigenous peoples of Canada, see Indigenous Canadians. For Canadians with ancestry to the Indian Subcontinent, see South Asian Canadians.
Indo-Canadians or Indian Canadians, are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The term East Indian is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the Indigenous peoples of Canada. Categorically, Indo-Canadians comprise a subgroup of South Asian Canadians which is a further subgroup of Asian Canadians. According to Statistics Canada, Indians are one of the fastest growing communities in Canada and one of the largest non-European ethnic groups.[6]
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![]() Indian ancestry in Canada (2016) | |
Total population | |
1,858,755[1][lower-alpha 1] 5.1% of the Canadian population (2021) | |
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Toronto • Vancouver • Calgary • Edmonton • Montreal • Abbotsford • Winnipeg • Ottawa • Hamilton | |
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Religion | |
Predominantly: Sikhism (36%) Hinduism (32%) Minorities: Christianity (12%) Islam (11%) Irreligion (8%) Buddhism (0.1%) Judaism (0.1%) Indigenous (0.01%) Zoroastrianism · Jainism · Others (0.7%) [5][lower-alpha 1] | |
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Canada contains the world's seventh-largest Indian diaspora. The highest concentrations of Indo-Canadians are found in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, followed by growing communities in Alberta and Quebec as well, with the majority of them being foreign-born.[6]