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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 Canadians also brought their cuisine and phở has become a popular food throughout the city. Vietnamese Canadians also reside in Central City, Surrey, which is a rapidly growing suburb of Metro Vancouver. [citation needed] In the Toronto area, there are 19 Vietnamese owned supermarkets. [citation needed]
Vietnam War resisters in Canada. Street door to the office of the Student Union for Peace Action's Anti-Draft Programme, on busy Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. Vietnam War resisters in Canada were American draft evaders and military deserters who avoided serving in the Vietnam War by seeking political asylum in Canada between 1965 and ...
Unknown Warriors: Canadians in the Vietnam War, by Fred Gaffen. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990. ISBN 978-1-55002-073-1. "Vietnam War", by Victor Levant. On the Canadian Encyclopedia website. Accessed 14 December 2012. War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature, by Robert McGill. Kingston, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
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]
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia.Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, forming approximately 20.2 percent of the Canadian population as of 2021, making up the majority of Canada’s visible minority population.
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.
For Canadian government census purposes and contemporary Canadian parlance, East Asian Canadians are typically identified and referred under the term "Asian"; popular usage of this term in Canada generally excludes both South and West Asians, both groups with ancestral origins in the Middle East and in the Indian subcontinent respectively, and instead solely referring to individuals who trace ...