Haitian Canadians are Canadian citizens of Haitian descent or Haiti -born people who reside in Canada .
Citizens from the Francophone Caribbean island nation of Haiti began immigrating to Canada in the 1960s, settling predominantly in Montreal and other parts of Quebec . Though their reasons for leaving Haiti were manifold, their choice to settle in Quebec is mainly due to their fluency in French . The Canada 2016 Census showed a total population of around 200,000 Haitian-Canadians residing in Canada,[1] Canada 2006 Census , which showed a total population of 102,430 respondents.[2] [3]
Demographics [ ]
Number of Haitian nationals granted permanent residence in Canada by year [4]
Year
Number of Haitian nationals admitted
Total number of permanent residents admitted
Proportion of permanent residents admitted
2002
2,217
229,048
1%
2003
1,945
221,349
0.9%
2004
1,657
235,823
0.7%
2005
1,719
262,242
0.7%
2006
1,650
251,640
0.7%
2007
1,614
236,753
0.7%
2008
2,509
247,246
1%
2009
2,085
252,174
0.8%
2010
4,552
280,691
1.6%
2011
6,208
248,748
2.5%
List of notable Haitian Canadians [ ] Artists [ ] Marie-Denise Douyon - painter, graphic artistLeonel Jules - painterGuerdy J. Préval - painterAthletes [ ] Jennifer Abel - Olympic swimmerJoachim Alcine - professional boxerWyn Belotte - professional soccer playerPatrice Bernier - professional soccer playerMaxime Boisclair - professional Canadian hockey playerFrancis Bouillon - defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens Félix Brillant - professional soccer playerDayana Cadeau - Haitian -born Canadian American professional bodybuilderMarc Calixte - professional soccer playerObed Cétoute - professional Canadian Football League playerGilles Colon - former professional Canadian Football League playerAntoine Craan - professional soccer playerSamuel Dalembert - professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks Anthony Duclair - professional hockey player[5] Edrick Floréal - Olympic long and triple jumperRaymond Fontaine - professional Canadian Football League playerMaxime Fortunus - professional ice hockey playerJems Geffrard - professional soccer playerJean-Luc Grand-Pierre - professional hockey playerRonald Hilaire - former CFL defensive lineman; current head coach of McGill Redmen Schiller Hyppolite - professional boxerYves Jabouin - mixed martial arts fighterDierry Jean - professional boxerOsvaldo Jeanty - professional basketball playerLoudia Laarman - sprinterGeorges Laraque - former professional hockey playerDavid Loiseau - mixed martial arts fighter, the first Haitian-Canadian to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship Elkana Mayard - professional soccer playerJosué Mayard - professional soccer playerPierre-Rudolph Mayard - professional soccer playerOlivier Occéan - professional soccer playerJean Pascal - professional boxerJimmy-Shammar Sanon - professional soccer playerAdonis Stevenson - professional boxer, current WBC Light Heavyweight ChampionBermane Stiverne - professional boxerBruny Surin - Olympian gold medal winning sprinterClaude Vilgrain - professional hockey playerBusiness [ ] Ralph Gilles - automobile designer (Chrysler 300 )Jean-Ernest Pierre - owner of CJWI radio station in Montreal, QuebecEntertainment [ ] Benz Antoine - actorBad News Brown - musicianJephté Bastien - film directorFabienne Colas - actress, director and producer and head of the Fabienne Colas FoundationAnthony Kavanagh - comedianPanou - actorQuddus - MTV veejayIsabelle Racicot - television and radio hostRonald Selmour - actor, renaissance manLiterature [ ] Marie-Célie Agnant - author and poetGeorges Anglade - Geographer and writerPaul Arcelin - writerGérard Étienne - writerGary Klang - poet and novelistDany Laferrière - novelistNadine Magloire - writerÉmile Ollivier , writerMusic [ ] Marc Antoine - singerAthésia - singer-songwriterCarmen Brouard - pianist, composer and music educatorRégine Chassagne - musician with group Arcade Fire Pierre Gage - singer-songwriterRoi Heenok - rapperImposs - rapperDL Incognito - rapperKaytranada - electronic musician, producer and DJYvon Krevé - hip hop artistMélissa Laveaux - musicianMarie-Josée Lord - opera sopranoLuck Mervil - Quebec-based rock singerMuzion - rap groupÉdouard Woolley - tenor, actor, composer, and music educatorPoliticians [ ] Jean Alfred - former MNA for Hull Dominique Anglade - MNA for Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne Vivian Barbot - former MP for Papineau in Montreal Frantz Benjamin - Montreal city councillor for Saint-MichelUlrick Chérubin - former mayor of Amos , Quebec Emmanuel Dubourg - MP for Bourassa , former MNA of Viau in MontrealMichaëlle Jean - journalist and Canada's first black Governor General Firmin Monestime - mayor of Mattawa , Ontario and the first elected black mayor in CanadaSee also [ ] References [ ] External links [ ]
Haitian diaspora
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