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British Columbia is Canada's most Ethnically Diverse Province | |||
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face of Canada is for ever changing and British Columbia continues
to lead the way, according to the latest census figures released
by Statistics Canada. Overall, there are more than five million visible minorities in the country, making up more than 16 per cent of the total population. But in British Columbia, 25 per cent of the population is part of a visible minority, the highest proportion in the country by province. According to 2006 census figures Toronto was the most diverse city in the country with nearly 43 per cent of the population made up of visible minorities, but Greater Vancouver was only slightly behind, with 42 per cent. Vancouver being a very diverse city, had over 200 ethnic groups reported Jarred Dobson an analyst with Statistics Canada. But despite the diversity, two main groups account for around half of all visible minorities in Canada. |
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Asians account for a quarter of all visible minorities in Canada,
or four per cent of the total population, and those with roots in
China form about another quarter of the country's visible minority
population. Both of those trends are evident in the ethnic transformation of the Lower Mainland. About one in five residents in the Metro Vancouver area were Chinese and Vancouver had the highest proportion of Chinese visible minority group among any major city in Canada according to Dobson. The Fraser Valley community of Abbotsford had the third-highest proportion of visible minorities in Canada, at 23 per cent, boosted by a wave of recent immigrants from South Asia, who made up 72 per cent of the visible minority population, said Dobson. Kelowna remains one of the least diverse metropolitan areas in the nation, with a visible minority population of just five per cent. |
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