Total population | |
---|---|
207,470 (by ancestry, 2016 Census)[1] 0.6% of Canada's population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Western Canada · Ontario | |
Languages | |
English · French · Danish | |
Religion | |
Protestantism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Danes · Greenlanders · Danish Americans |
Danish Canadians (Danish: Dansk-canadiere) are Canadian citizens of Danish ancestry. According to the 2006 Census, there were 200,035 Canadians with Danish background,[2] 17,650 of whom were born in Denmark.[3]
Canada became an important destination for the Danes during the post-war period. At one point, a Canadian immigration office was to be set up in Copenhagen.[4] While most of the post-war immigrants settled in large cities, Danish-Canadian communities can be found in all of Canada's ten provinces.
The oldest Danish community in Canada is New Denmark, New Brunswick, first inhabited by Danish immigrants in 1872.[citation needed]
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1921 | 21,124 | — |
1931 | 34,118 | +61.5% |
1941 | 37,439 | +9.7% |
1951 | 42,671 | +14.0% |
1961 | 85,473 | +100.3% |
1971 | 75,725 | −11.4% |
1981 | 57,940 | −23.5% |
1986 | 119,055 | +105.5% |
1991 | 135,520 | +13.8% |
1996 | 163,125 | +20.4% |
2001 | 170,780 | +4.7% |
2006 | 200,035 | +17.1% |
2011 | 203,080 | +1.5% |
2016 | 207,470 | +2.2% |
Source: Statistics Canada [5]: 17 [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Note: 1981 Canadian census did not include multiple ethnic origin responses, thus population is an undercount. |