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Between 1979 and 1982 12,000 persons fleeing Vietnam arrived in Toronto, and the city's Vietnamese population, including both Kinh people and Vietnamese Chinese, was about 30,000 by 1986. [3] By 1989 the Greater Toronto Area had Canada's largest concentration of Vietnamese people, at over 50,000. [4]
Vietnamese, Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese people in France. Vietnamese Canadians (Vietnamese: Người Canada gốc Việt; French: Canadiens vietnamiens) are Canadian citizens of Vietnamese ancestry. As of 2021, there are 275,530 Vietnamese Canadians, most of whom reside in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec.
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. [3] Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
The last complete census by Statistics Canada, which was taken in 2021, estimated there were 2,794,356 living in Toronto, [ 25 ] making it the most populous city in Canada [ 26 ] and the fourth most populous municipality in North America. [ 27 ] Toronto's population grew by 2.3 percent from 2016 to 2021, with an annual growth rate of 0.46 percent.
Large-scale Vietnamese immigration to Canada began during the mid-1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, though a couple thousand were already living in Quebec before then, most of whom were students. After the fall of Saigon, there were two waves of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada.
Phan Thị Kim Phúc. OOnt. June 8, 1972: Kim Phúc, center, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack (Nick Ut / The Associated Press) Born. Phan Thị Kim Phúc. (1963-04-06) April 6, 1963 (age 61) Trảng Bàng, South Vietnam. Nationality.
1952/1953. Vietnam. Died. August 16, 1991 (aged 38) [1] Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cause of death. Gunshot wound (homicide) Asau "Johnny" Tran (1952/1953 – August 16, 1991) was the former ring-leader of a large Vietnamese mob in Toronto during the 1980s, until his death in 1991.
Bich Pan (murder victim) Jennifer Pan (murderer) Chantal Petitclerc. Hung Pham. Bernadette Phan. Joseph Phan. Noel Prefontaine.