Belarusian Canadians Беларусы Канады Белорусские канадцы Canadiens biélorusses
Total population
(18,850, (by ancestry, 2021 Census)[1] 0.05% of total population)
Regions with significant populations
Ontario and Quebec
Languages
Canadian English · Canadian French · Belarusian · Russian
Religion
Christianity · Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Russian Canadians · Ukrainian Canadians
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Belarusian Canadians (Belarusian: Беларусы Канады, romanized: Biełarusy Kanady) are Canadian citizens of Belarusian descent or Belarusian-born individuals who reside in Canada. According to the 2021 Census, there were 18,850 Canadians who claimed Belarusian ancestry.[1]
Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič estimated the number of Belarusians in Canada in late 1959 at about 40,000, with a majority of Russian Empire era Belarusian immigrants being listed as Russians or Poles because Belarusians were not present as a separate category in Canadian documents.[2] Belarusian became an option on the Canadian census in 1971.[3]
Victor Turek, a Polish-born scholar, wrote that the first Belarusians came to Canada in 1817 along with members of De Watteville's Regiment who settled in the Red River Colony in what became Manitoba. Turek noted 10 Poles were among the settlers, and argued 3 of them were actually Belarusians.[4] Belarusian immigrants likely first started coming to Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.[5] Their numbers increased at the start of the twentieth century, though they were often classified as Poles or Russians.[6] This further increased in the aftermath of the First World War, with scholar John Sadouski estimating that some 16,600 Belarusians came to Canada between 1927 and 1930 alone.[7]
The oldest Belarusian diaspora organization in Canada, Belarusian Canadian Alliance, was established by Kastus Akula in 1948 in Toronto.[8]
^ ab"Ethnic or cultural origin by gender and age: Canada, provinces and territories, 2021". statcan.gc.ca.
^Жыцьцё Вінцэнта Жук-Грышкевіча [The life of Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič], by Raisa Žuk-Hryškievič. Toronto, 1993, p. 226
^Sadouski, John (1981). A History of the Byelorussians in Canada. Belleville, Ontario: Mika Publishing Company. p. 132. ISBN 0-919303-53-6.
^Sadouski. A History of the Byelorussians in Canada. pp. 45–46.
^Sadouski. A History of the Byelorussians in Canada. p. 41.
^Sadouski. A History of the Byelorussians in Canada. p. 132.
^Sadouski. A History of the Byelorussians in Canada. p. 46.
^"Belarusians in Canada". Belarusian Canadian Alliance. Archived from the original on 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
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