Italian Canadians
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Italian Canadians or Italo-Canadians are Canadian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who migrated to Canada as part of the Italian diaspora, or
Italian Canadians as a percent of population by census division
A grocery store owned by an Italian family in Little Italy, Montreal, 1910
Sign of Mirador, a restaurant in Montreal owned by an Italian immigrant, 1948
European Canadians
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European Canadians are Canadians who can trace their ancestry from Europe, forming the largest panethnic group within Canada. In the 2021 Canadian census, 19,062,115 people or 52.5% of the population
Italian Canadians
…the total population) claimed full or partial Italian ancestry. They comprise a subgroup of Southern European Canadians which is a further subgroup of European Canadians. The census enumerates the entire Canadian population, which consists of Canadian citizens (by birth and by naturalization), landed immigrants and…
Largest reported European ancestry in Canada by census division, 2021 census
One group of King's Daughters arrives at Quebec, 1667
Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye of New France with a group of engagés (indentured servants)
Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755