American Canadians
American Canadians are Canadians of American descent. The term is most often used to refer to Canadians who migrated from or have ancestry from the United States. This may include people born in the United States who have naturalized as Canadian citizens. Many American Canadians hold both US and Canadian citizenship.
Demography
According to the
2016 Census, 29,590 Canadians reported American as being their singular ethnicity, while 347,810 reported partial ancestry.[1]
History of Americans in Canada
Americans have
Halifax, Nova Scotia or Southern Ontario. At the outbreak of the war of 1812 80,000 of 110,000 inhabitants in Ontario were American born or descendants of Americans. In the Maritimes 110,000 of 135,000 were Americans who settled before 1775 or after and their descendants. This fact gave English-speaking Canada a pronounced American cultural flavor into the 1830s. The difference was political: those who disliked the split with Britain and those who supported it.[2]
In the early 20th century, over 750,000 American settlers moved into the farming regions of the
Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Many of these were immigrants (or children of immigrants) from Europe or Eastern Canada who had gone to the United States looking for farm land only to find the supply of free farmsteads there exhausted. Others were old-stock European Americans (from the Midwest and Upper South regions of the US), and a small percentage were racial minorities, such as African Americans. In 1916, Americans accounted for 36% of all the foreign-born residents of Alberta, 30% in Saskatchewan, and 8% in Manitoba.[3]
or about 400,000 in a total population of the three provinces close to 1.5 million. Not all stayed.
During the
draft dodgers fled to Canada to avoid the war. About 10,200 Americans moved to Canada in 2006; this was the highest number since 1977.[4]
Notable people
See also
- United States
- American English
- Canada–United States border
- Québécois
- United Empire Loyalist
- African Americans in Canada
References
- ^ a b "Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables". Statistics Canada.
- ^ Harvey, David D.; Bumsted, J.M. (4 March 2015). "Americans". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "American Immigration". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. University of Regina.
- ^ "American moves to Canada reach record high". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. cbc.ca. July 30, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2007.