Canadian Mexicans
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18,294 Canadian nationals residing in Mexico (2020)[1] Unknown number of Mexicans of Canadian descent | |
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Canadian Mexicans are Mexican citizens with Canadian ancestry or immigrants from Canada.
An important Canadian-descended group is the Plautdietsch-speaking "Russian" Mennonites and their descendants, who emigrated from Canada to Mexico starting in 1922.
History
Early immigration
Individuals born in what is now Canada have been present in Mexico since the early republic. For example, the Quebec-born Michel Branamour Menard was a settler in Mexican Texas and became a Mexican citizen.
An important Canadian immigrant was engineer Carlos Henry Bosdet, who set up the first telephone line in Mexico in 1878.[2]
Canadian immigrants were first tabulated in the 1900 census. A total of 140 individuals, 102 men and 38 women, were counted.[3]
Mennonite immigration
The ancestors of the Mennonites living in Mexico arrived via Canada. Migration to Mexico took place mainly from 1922 to 1927, with smaller groups coming after World War II.
The 1930 census counted 7,779 Canadian immigrants; 3,862 men and 3,917 women.[3] Most, but not all, of these immigrants were Mennonites.
The first settlers moved to the
Recent immigration
Contemporary Canadian emigrants to Mexico consist mainly of working professionals that settle in larger cities and retired individuals living in smaller towns.
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Notable individuals
Notable Mexicans of Canadian origin include the artist
See also
- Canada–Mexico relations
- Mexican Canadian
- American Mexican
References
- ^ "International Migration Database". OECD. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
Country of birth/nationality: Canada, Variable: Stock of foreign population by nationality
- ^ "Rinden homenaje a introductor de teléfono en México". Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ National Institute of Statistics and Geography. p. 83. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ "Canadians Abroad: Canada's Global Asset Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine", Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 26 July 2011.
- ^ "Canadian toll in Haiti quake rises to 3 Archived 2011-08-04 at the Wayback Machine", CBC News, 13 January 2010.
- Instituto Nacional de Migración. p. 35. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ^ "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020". INEGI (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2021.