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Welsh Canadians are Canadian citizens of Welsh descent or Wales-born people who reside in Canada. According to the 2011 Census , 458,705 Canadians claimed full or partial Welsh descent. [ 2 ] This increased to 474,805 in the 2016 Census [ 3 ]
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The Irish population, meanwhile, witnessed steady, slowing population growth during the late 19th and early 20th century, with the proportion of the total Canadian population dropping from 24.3 percent in 1871 to 12.6 percent in 1921 and falling from the second-largest ethnic group in Canada from to fourth − principally due to massive ...
Welsh people have also settled in New Zealand and Australia. [84] [91] Around 1.75 million Americans report themselves to have Welsh ancestry, as did 458,705 Canadians in Canada's 2011 census. [2] [4] This compares with 2.9 million people living in Wales (as of the 2001 census). [92]
In the New Zealand census, "Canadian" is an ethnicity listed in the "European" category. In 2018, it was reported by 7,797 respondents. [30] In the United States census, "Canadian" and "French Canadian" (which includes responses for Québécois) are ancestral origins listed in the "Other White" category. [31]
In traditional Canadian historiography, these migrants are often grouped together under the broad label of United Empire Loyalists, obscuring particular ethnic and religious identities, [29] as well as their exact motivations for migrating to Canada. Welsh mapmaker David Thompson was one of the great explorers of the North West Company in the ...