Ethnic group
Ethnic group
Jamaican Canadians
Jamaico-Canadians|
309,485 0.9% of Canada's population (2016)[1] |
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Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Vancouver |
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Canadian English, Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, Canadian French |
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Christianity · Rastafari |
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Jamaican British, British Indo-Caribbean people, Indo-Caribbeans, Multi-Racial British Caribbean, Jamaican Americans, Afro-Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, Germans in Jamaica, Jamaican Australians, Indo-Canadians, Chinese Canadians |
Jamaican Canadians are Canadian citizens of Jamaican descent or Jamaican-born permanent residents of Canada. The population, according to Canada's 2021 Census, is 249,070.[2] Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population.[3][4]