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Indo-Canadians
Community of Canadians of Indian descent or with Indian citizenship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
![]() Indian ancestry in Canada (2016) | |
Total population | |
1,858,755[1][lower-alpha 1] 5.1% of the Canadian population (2021) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Toronto • Vancouver • Calgary • Edmonton • Montreal • Abbotsford • Winnipeg • Ottawa • Hamilton | |
Languages | |
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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] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
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]