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Palestinian Canadians
فلسطينيو كندا (Arabic) Canadiens palestiniens (French)

Total population
44,820 (by ancestry, 2016 Census)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Toronto, Montreal
Languages
Canadian English · Canadian French · Palestinian Arabic
Religion
Islam · Christianity · Druze · Baháʼí · Atheism
Related ethnic groups
Arab Canadians, Palestinian American, Palestinian people

Palestinian Canadians (Arabic: فلسطينيو كندا, romanized: Filasṭīnīyū Kanadā) are Canadian citizens of Palestinian descent or Palestine-born people residing in Canada. According to the 2016 Census there were 44,820 Canadians who claimed Palestinian ancestry.^[2]

Demography

Religion

Palestinian Canadian demography by religion
Religious group	2021^[3]^[a]
Religious group	Pop.	%
Islam	32,895	71.66%
Christianity	8,605	18.75%
Irreligion	4,155	9.05%
Judaism	110	0.24%
Buddhism	10	0.02%
Sikhism	10	0.02%
Other	120	0.26%
Total Palestinian Canadian population	45,905	100%

Geographical distribution

There are 4,020 Palestinians in Toronto, whom make up 0.2% of the city and metropolitan area's population, and there are 15,330 Palestinians in the Greater Toronto Area.^[4]^[5] There is Palestinian-Canadian cultural and civic center is Mississauga, Ontario.^[6] There are at least four Palestinian restaurants in Toronto.^[7]

Notable Palestinian Canadians

Notes

^ Religious breakdown proportions based on "Palestinian" ethnic or cultural origin response on the 2021 census.^[3]

References

^ Statistics Canada. "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Retrieved 27 October 2020.
^ Statistics Canada. "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Retrieved 27 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2023-05-10). "Religion by ethnic or cultural origins: Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas with parts". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
^ "Toronto Metropolitan Area - Census 2021". Statistics Canada. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
^ "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population | Profile table". Statistics Canada. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
^ "Palestine House Website". Retrieved May 12, 2024.
^ "Palestinian Restaurants". PopandCo.ca. Retrieved May 12, 2024.

Ethnic origins of people in Canada

Canada

Africa

Horn of Africa	Eritrean Ethiopian Somali
North Africa	Berber Algerian Libyan Moroccan Tunisian Coptic Egyptian
East Africa	South Sudanese Sudanese
Southern Africa	South African Zimbabwean
West Africa	Ghanaian Nigerian Igbo Yoruba

Americas

North America	American Mexican
Caribbean	Barbadian Cuban Dominican Guyanese Haitian Jamaican Puerto Rican Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Central and South America	Argentine Brazilian Chilean Colombian Guatemalan Peruvian Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan

Asia

Central Asia	Afghan Kazakh Tajik Tatar Uzbek
East Asia	Chinese Hong Kong Japanese Korean Mongolian Taiwanese Tibetan
South Asia	Bangladeshi Indian Anglo-Indian Tamil Nepali Pakistani Punjabi Romani Sri Lankan
Southeast Asia	Cambodian Filipino Indonesian Laotian Malaysian Singaporean Thai Vietnamese
West Asia	Arab Iraqi Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni Armenian Assyrian Azerbaijani Iranian Jewish Israeli Kurdish Turkish

Europe

Central Europe	Austrian Czech German Hungarian Polish Slovak Slovenian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Belarusian Russian Ukrainian
Northern Europe	Nordic and Scandinavian Danish Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish Estonian Latvian Lithuanian
Southeast Europe	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Greek Macedonian Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Yugoslav
Southern Europe	Italian Maltese Portuguese Spanish Basque
Western Europe	Belgian Flemish British Cornish English Scotch-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch French Acadians Breton Québécois Irish Luxembourger

Oceania

v t e Arab Canadians by state of origin
Africa	Algerian Egyptian Libyan Moroccan Somali Sudanese Tunisian
Asia	Iraqi Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni
Related topics	Asian Canadians
Based on state membership in the Arab League.

Palestine topics

History

Early history

Modern history

Conflict

Israeli–Palestinian	Timeline 1947–1949 Palestine war 1948 Palestinian exodus Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon First Lebanon War First Intifada Second Intifada Gaza War Israel–Hamas war
Black September	Dawson's Field hijackings
Fatah–Hamas conflict	Battle of Gaza 2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza
Hamas-Salafist conflict	Hamas-Jund Ansar Allah clash

Geography

Politics

Government

West Bank (SOP-controlled)	Prime Minister President Palestinian National Council Palestinian Legislative Council Judicial system
Gaza Strip (Hamas-controlled)	Prime Minister President Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice

Security

Foreign affairs

Economy

Palestine Monetary Authority

Society and
culture

Media

Diaspora

Ethnic groups

Arabs	Muslim Arabs Bedouins Afro-Palestinians Christian Arabs Baháʼís Druzers Metawalis
Other	Jews Kurds Gypsies (Dom/Nawar) Samaritans Bushnaq

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