Canada
Iranians in Canada: a history
Skilled immigration since the 1990s built large communities in Toronto’s North York, known as Tehranto, on Vancouver’s North Shore and in Montreal. Toronto hosts the Tirgan festival. Canada severed diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012. The downing of flight PS752 on 8 January 2020 killed many Iranian-Canadians.
01Waves
- 1980s refugees
- 1990s to 2020s skilled
02Figures
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205,304
born in Iran (stock), 2024
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213,160 born in Iran; 200,465 ‘Iranian’ and 80,340 ‘Persian’ ethnic origin (overlapping)
birth and ethnic origin, 2021
Statistics Canada, Census 2021, via secondary sources To verify