Vietnamese Canadians

Vietnamese Canadians (Vietnamese: Người Canada gốc Việt; French: Canadiens vietnamiens) are Canadian citizens of Vietnamese ancestry. As of 2021, there are 275,530 Vietnamese Canadians, most of whom reside in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec.

History

Mainstream Vietnamese communities began arriving in Canada in the mid-1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, though a couple thousand were already living in Quebec before then, most of whom were students. After the Fall of Saigon, there were two waves of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada. The first wave consisted mostly of middle-class immigrants. Many of these immigrants were able to speak French and or English and were welcomed into Canada for their professional skills. The second wave consisted of Southern Vietnamese refugees who were escaping the harsh regime that had taken over the former South Vietnam. Many of them (10%)^{[citation needed]} were of Chinese descent and were escaping ethnic persecution resulting from the Sino-Vietnamese War. These south Vietnamese refugees were known globally as the "boat people".

In the years 1979–80, Canada accepted 60,000 Vietnamese refugees.

Vaughan, and Markham.

Vietnamese-Canadian population by province, 2021

Province	Vietnamese population [6]
Ontario	122,735
British Columbia	51,890
Quebec	45,570
Alberta	39,395
Manitoba	7,290
Saskatchewan	4,730
Nova Scotia	1,374
New Brunswick	1,295
Prince Edward Island	730
Northwest Territories	225
Newfoundland and Labrador	175
Yukon	90
Nunavut	0
Canada (2021)	275,530

Canadian metropolitan areas with large Vietnamese-Canadian populations, 2021

City	Province	2021 Vietnamese population[citation needed]
Greater Toronto Area	Ontario	82,225
Greater Montreal	Quebec	38,660
Greater Vancouver	British Columbia	34,915
Calgary Region	Alberta	21,010
Edmonton Capital Region	Alberta	14,180
Ottawa-Gatineau	Ontario, Quebec	9,650
Winnipeg Capital Region	Manitoba	5,580
Waterloo Region	Ontario	5,555
Hamilton	Ontario	4,855
London	Ontario	3,110
Windsor	Ontario	2,555
Guelph	Ontario	2,425

Community issues

Crime and gangs

A report done by University of British Columbia graduate Andrea Gillman Vietnamese-Canadians were more likely than other visible minorities to face barriers to employment, assimilation, and language proficiency. Gillman stated that family, cultural, and employment factors contributed to the prevalence of Vietnamese crime, poverty, and gang violence:

"In The New Start for Vietnamese-Canadian Community Forum, the Lac Viet Public Education Society surveyed individuals to identify the causes of crime and victimization within the community. The results have been used to run a series of radio shows addressing these issues. Gang-related issues were identified as the area of most concern, followed by safety, grow-ops, education and health. Employment, family, and school issues were listed as the root cause of crime and victimization. [...] Issues identified specifically by youth as areas of major concern are those related to school, gangs, safety and family. Under these headings, issues include bullying, kidnapping and violence; recruitment into illegal activities; selling and smoking marijuana in schools; and recruitment of female youth into sexual activities."[7]

Notable Canadians of Vietnamese origin

Business

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In Canada, local Vietnamese media includes:

• Viet Nam Thoi Bao — Edmonton magazine^[8]
• Thoi Bao — Toronto newspaper^[9]
• Thoi Bao TV — Toronto^[10]
• Thoi Moi — Toronto newspaper^[11]
• Little Saigon Canada — Toronto newspaper
• Vietnamville — Montreal^[12]
  • Phố Việt Montreal, printed newspaper of Vietnamville.ca
• Viethomes Magazine — Toronto magazine^[13][14]
• Culture Magazin — national magazine, first-ever bilingual English-Vietnamese magazine in Canada^[15]

In

In the Toronto area, there are 19 Vietnamese owned supermarkets.^[citation needed]

In Montreal there are about 40,000 Vietnamese Canadian population among highest median income and education of Vietnamese Canadians in major cities. There are more than 100 Vietnamese restaurants, hundreds of small size manufacturers of different products from clothing to technology, about 80 pharmacies and hundreds of doctors, dentists, over a thousand scientists, engineers and technicians, about sixty convenient stores and groceries. Since November 2006, Ngo Van Tan has started a project to promote and build the first '

• Canada–Vietnam relations
• Overseas Vietnamese
• Asian Canadians
• Vietnamese in Toronto

References