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Geographical Distribution of Asian Mother Tongue Groups by Selected Metropolitan Areas
Over two thirds of Canadians having an Asian mother tongue live in either Toronto or Vancouver. Among the metropolitian areas mentioned here, Quebec City has the lowest percentage of Canadians with an Asian mother tongue in contrast to Montreal which has over 7%.
| Geographical Distribution of Asian Mother Tongue Groups by Selected Metropolitan Areas(%) | |||||
| Western Canada | |||||
| Vancouver | Edmonton | Calgary | Saskatoon | Winnipeg | |
| Chinese* | 34.91 | 4.08 | 5.83 | 0.37 | 1.12 |
| Punjabi | 38.11 | 4.54 | 6.92 | 0.09 | 2.00 |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 21.67 | 5.42 | 7.00 | 0.53 | 10.43 |
| Vietnamese | 17.46 | 6.51 | 9.18 | 0.33 | 2.25 |
| Tamil | 2.62 | 0.39 | 0.68 | 0.11 | 0.24 |
| Korean | 38.66 | 3.05 | 5.96 | 0.07 | 1.73 |
| Urdu | 5.00 | 2.65 | 5.46 | 0.11 | 0.75 |
| Gujarati | 8.19 | 2.94 | 5.17 | 0.11 | 0.89 |
| Hindi | 31.42 | 7.03 | 5.19 | 0.24 | 1.41 |
| Japanese | 49.84 | 3.33 | 6.48 | 0.47 | 2.20 |
| Bengali | 3.52 | 1.49 | 4.72 | 0.33 | 0.76 |
| Other** | 15.28 | 4.76 | 7.39 | 0.69 | 3.08 |
| Total | 27.57 | 4.12 | 6.03 | 0.31 | 2.26 |
| Central & Eastern Canada | |||||
| Toronto | Ottawa-Gatineau | Montreal | Quebec | Halifax | |
| Chinese* | 44.15 | 2.83 | 6.35 | 0.09 | 0.26 |
| Punjabi | 43.37 | 1.02 | 3.83 | 0.01 | 0.10 |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 47.49 | 1.84 | 5.44 | 0.03 | 0.17 |
| Vietnamese | 38.19 | 5.51 | 19.58 | 0.71 | 0.29 |
| Tamil | 83.70 | 1.90 | 10.31 | - | 0.05 |
| Korean | 44.67 | 1.68 | 3.51 | 0.02 | 0.64 |
| Urdu | 75.65 | 2.77 | 7.24 | 0.06 | 0.27 |
| Gujarati | 72.99 | 1.46 | 7.98 | 0.06 | 0.20 |
| Hindi | 47.86 | 2.95 | 3.50 | 0.08 | 0.34 |
| Japanese | 28.36 | 2.89 | 5.27 | 0.39 | 0.77 |
| Bengali | 59.76 | 5.96 | 22.61 | 0.16 | 0.69 |
| Other** | 48.80 | 4.75 | 14.51 | 0.33 | 0.41 |
| Total | 49.24 | 2.66 | 7.45 | 0.12 | 0.26 |
Source: Detailed Mother Tongue. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 4 December 2007. 2006 Census of Canada. Catalogue number 97-555-XCB2006007. 13 April 2009.
Statistics Canada information is used with the permission of Statistics Canada. Users are forbidden to copy this material and/or redisseminate the data, in an original or modified form, for commercial purposes, without the expressed permission of Statistics Canada. Information on the availability of the wide range of data from Statistics Canada can be obtained from Statistics Canada’s Regional Offices, its World Wide Web site at http://www.statcan.gc.ca, and its toll-free access number 1-800-263-1136.
Notes: 1. Mother tongue refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
2. Figures are taken from the single response category.
* The figures for Chinese include Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien and Shanghainese, as well as Chinese languages not otherwise specified.
** Other Asian Mother Tongue includes: Konkani, Marathi, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Pashto, Indo-Iranian languages (not specified), Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Dravidian languages (not specified), Tibetan languages (not specified), Sino-Tibetan languages (not specified), Lao, Thai, Khmer (Cambodian), Bisayan languages (not specified), Ilocano, Malay-Bahasa, Pampango and Malayo-Polynesian languages (not specified).
Over two thirds of Canadians having an Asian mother tongue live in either Toronto or Vancouver.
Geographical Distribution of Asian Mother Tongue Groups by Province
Of those Canadians having an Asian mother tongue, over half reside in Ontario. Amost 28% reside in British Columbia, and less than 1% live in the Maritime provinces. Of notable interest is Ontario, where the number of Asian mother tongue speakers has grown almost 2%. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec show a decrease in Asian mother tongue since the 2001 census.
| Geographical Distribution of Asian Mother Tongue Groups by Province (%) | ||||||
| Western Canada | ||||||
| BC | AB | SK | MB | |||
| Chinese* | 33.88 | 9.61 | 0.74 | 1.09 | ||
| Punjabi | 43.20 | 9.88 | 0.23 | 1.73 | ||
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 21.40 | 12.62 | 0.92 | 9.55 | ||
| Vietnamese | 17.34 | 13.66 | 0.92 | 1.93 | ||
| Tamil | 2.76 | 1.18 | 0.27 | 0.24 | ||
| Korean | 37.03 | 8.63 | 0.54 | 1.55 | ||
| Urdu | 4.82 | 7.73 | 0.23 | 0.82 | ||
| Gujarati | 8.06 | 7.71 | 0.25 | 1.09 | ||
| Hindi | 29.71 | 11.48 | 0.45 | 1.43 | ||
| Japanese | 49.84 | 11.34 | 0.73 | 1.75 | ||
| Bengali | 3.69 | 5.92 | 0.43 | 0.74 | ||
| Other** | 15.06 | 11.36 | 1.12 | 2.73 | ||
| Total | 27.84 | 9.68 | 0.62 | 2.09 | ||
| Central & Eastern Canada | ||||||
| ON | QC | NB | NS | PEI | NF | |
| Chinese* | 47.68 | 6.27 | 0.21 | 0.33 | 0.02 | 0.11 |
| Punjabi | 41.54 | 3.24 | 0.01 | 0.11 | - | 0.03 |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 49.81 | 5.00 | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.01 | 0.08 |
| Vietnamese | 47.41 | 17.91 | 0.14 | 0.35 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Tamil | 85.35 | 9.98 | 0.01 | 0.07 | - | 0.12 |
| Korean | 47.78 | 3.16 | 0.50 | 0.68 | 0.05 | 0.04 |
| Urdu | 78.75 | 6.64 | 0.21 | 0.38 | 0.02 | 0.38 |
| Gujarati | 74.92 | 7.42 | 0.20 | 0.27 | - | 0.06 |
| Hindi | 52.61 | 3.35 | 0.31 | 0.52 | 0.05 | 0.06 |
| Japanese | 30.05 | 4.80 | 0.29 | 0.73 | 0.20 | 0.17 |
| Bengali | 66.57 | 21.15 | 0.24 | 0.86 | - | 0.36 |
| Other** | 54.96 | 13.71 | 0.33 | 0.45 | - | 0.14 |
| Total | 52.00 | 7.04 | 0.19 | 0.32 | 0.02 | 0.11 |
Source: Detailed Mother Tongue. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 4 December 2007. 2006 Census of Canada. Catalogue number 97-555-XCB2006007. 13 April 2009.
Statistics Canada information is used with the permission of Statistics Canada. Users are forbidden to copy this material and/or redisseminate the data, in an original or modified form, for commercial purposes, without the expressed permission of Statistics Canada. Information on the availability of the wide range of data from Statistics Canada can be obtained from Statistics Canada’s Regional Offices, its World Wide Web site at http://www.statcan.gc.ca, and its toll-free access number 1-800-263-1136.
Notes: 1. Mother tongue refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census.
2. Figures are taken from the single response category.
* The figures for Chinese include Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Taiwanese, Chaochow (Teochow), Fukien and Shanghainese, as well as Chinese languages not otherwise specified.
** Other Asian Mother Tongue includes: Konkani, Marathi, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Pashto, Indo-Iranian languages (not specified), Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Dravidian languages (not specified), Tibetan languages (not specified), Sino-Tibetan languages (not specified), Lao, Thai, Khmer (Cambodian), Bisayan languages (not specified), Ilocano, Malay-Bahasa, Pampango and Malayo-Polynesian languages (not specified).
Of those Canadians having an Asian mother tongue, over half reside in Ontario. Amost 28% reside in British Columbia, and less than 1% live in the Maritime provinces.