Nigerian Canadians Explained

Group:Nigerian Canadian
Population:112,240 [1]
Popplace:Brampton, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina,((Saskatoon)),Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Windsor, Quebec City
Langs:English, Igbo, Yoruba, French, Nigerian Pidgin
Rels:ChristianityIslamYoruba religion

Nigerian Canadians are a Canadian ethnic group of Nigerian descent. Nigerians began migrating to Canada during the 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War. Nigerians were not broken out separately in immigration statistics until 1973. 3,919 landed immigrants of Nigerian nationality arrived in Canada from 1973 to 1991.

There is a significant number of Nigerians living in the Greater Toronto Area.[2] In the 2016 census, 51,800 people identified themselves as Nigerians, of whom about half lived in Ontario. There are many more Nigerians in Canada, who identified themselves by their tribe instead of their country, such as 16,210 are Yoruba, 18,315 are Igbo, and 17,275 are from minor tribes. There has also been a steady increase in the number of Nigerians living in the western cities of Canada, such as Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg.[3]

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  1. Web site: Visible minority by place of birth and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts . www12.statcan.gc.ca . Statistics Canada . 11 January 2021.
  2. Web site: Toronto's Nigerian community makes wider public appeal for tips about man's murder. 21 March 2018.
  3. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census. Canada. Government of Canada, Statistics. www12.statcan.gc.ca. 2018-04-12.