{"id":4027,"date":"2019-04-10T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundsofcanadaseries.com\/?page_id=4027"},"modified":"2019-04-11T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T23:26:53","slug":"famous-ethnic-canadians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soundsofcanadaseries.com\/famous-ethnic-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Ethnic Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"mp-span12 motopress-clmn  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-code-obj\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Famous Ethnic Canadians<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"mp-span12 motopress-clmn  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-tabs-obj motopress-tabs-vertical motopress-tabs-padding-20 motopress-tabs-basic\" id=\"tabs640114b5aef19\">\n<ul>\n<li data-tab-no=\"0\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba2935312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Arab-Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"1\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba3035330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Celtic Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"2\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba353535c\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Cuban Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"3\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba29435312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Filipino Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"4\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba30535330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Hungarian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"5\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba3535535c\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Indian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"6\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba293s5312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Italian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"7\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba3c035330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Russian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"8\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba35v3535c\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Ukrainian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"9\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba29x35312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Aboriginal Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"10\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafbfa3035330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">African Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"11\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba3535d35c\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Argentinian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"12\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba293s5312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Caribbean Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"13\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba30235330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">German Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"14\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba3533535c\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Greek Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"15\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba29435312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Iranian Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"16\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba35035330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Japanese Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"17\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba35h535c\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Polish Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"18\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba2935k312\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Portuguese Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-tab-no=\"19\" class=\"ui-tabs-nav-item\"><a href=\"#5cafba30l35330\"><span class=\"tab-text\">Vietnamese Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba2935312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Arab-Canadians have come from all of the countries of the Arab world since 1882. According to the 2016 census, there were<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> 419,890 Canadians who claimed Arab ancestry. There were 661,750 Canadians who claimed full or partial ancestry from an Arabic<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> speaking country. The large majority of Canadians of Arabic origin live in either Ontario or Quebec<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nKevin O'Leary - entrepreneur and reality television personality<br \/>\nOmar Alghabra - former Liberal MP (2006\u20132008)<br \/>\nPierre de Ban\u00e9 - former Liberal MP (1968\u20131984)<br \/>\nMichael Basha - former member of the Senate of Canada<br \/>\nTarik Brahmi - current NDP member of House of Commons for Saint-Jean<br \/>\nFonse Faour - former NDP MP and leader of Newfoundland NDP<br \/>\nEddie Francis - Mayor of Windsor, Ontario<br \/>\nJoe Ghiz - former Premier of Prince Edward Island<br \/>\nRobert Ghiz - Premier of Prince Edward Island<br \/>\nSadia Groguh\u00e9 - current NDP member of House of Commons for Saint-Lambert<br \/>\nMac Harb - Senator, former Liberal MP (1988\u20132004)<br \/>\nSana Hassainia - current NDP member of House of Commons<br \/>\nLorraine Michael - former Nun, leader of New Democratic Party<br \/>\nMaria Mourani - current Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois MP<br \/>\nKhalil Ramal - Ontario MPP<br \/>\nDjaouida Sellah - current NDP member of House of Commons<br \/>\nMaher Arar - human rights activist<br \/>\nMonia Mazigh - human rights activist and New Democratic Party candidate<br \/>\nSamah Sabawi - Palestinian rights activist and playwright<br \/>\nAnisa Mehdi - Emmy Award-winning flm director, journalist<br \/>\nDonald Shebib - documentary flmmaker<br \/>\nPaul Anka - singer<br \/>\nBelly - rap\/hip hop artist<br \/>\nAndy Kim - pop singer\/songwriter<br \/>\nK.Maro - rapper<br \/>\nKristina Maria - rapper<br \/>\nMassari - pop and hip-hop singer<br \/>\nNasri - reggae and pop singer<br \/>\nThe Narcicyst - rapper<br \/>\nVa\u00ef - rapper, hip hop singer<br \/>\nKarl Wolf - singer<br \/>\nZaho - singer<br \/>\nRamzi Abid - professional hockey player<br \/>\nDavid Azzi - professional player in Canadian Football League<br \/>\nJoey Haddad - professional hockey player<br \/>\nJohn Hanna - professional hockey player<br \/>\nEd Hatoum - professional hockey player<br \/>\nFabian Joseph - former professional hockey player<br \/>\nNazem Kadri - professional hockey player<br \/>\nJohn Makdessi - professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fghter<br \/>\nAlain Nasreddine - professional hockey player<br \/>\nJean Sayegh - water polo player<br \/>\nRami Sebei - professional wrestler<br \/>\nReema Abdo - former backstroke swimmer<br \/>\nRen\u00e9 Ang\u00e9lil - manager and husband of C\u00e9line Dion<br \/>\nNahlah Ayed - journalist<br \/>\nOmar Khadr - detainee formerly held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp<br \/>\nHabeeb Salloum - author, cookbook author, writer, travel writer<br \/>\nMamdouh Shoukri - current president of York University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba3035330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>9,908,910 (Census 2016)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> The frst arrival of Celts in what would later become Canada was documented in the Saga of Eric the Red, which depicted the<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Viking expedition of 1010 AD to Vinland, believed to be the island of Newfoundland<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nAlexander Graham Bell - eminent scientist<br \/>\nGeorge Brown - founder of the Toronto Globe, Father of Confederation<br \/>\nJames Cameron - flm director<br \/>\nKim Campbell - frst female Prime Minister of Canada<br \/>\nNeve Campbell - actress<br \/>\nJim Carrey - actor and comedian<br \/>\nTommy Douglas - Premier of Saskatchewan<br \/>\nSandford Fleming - railway engineer and proponent of standard time zone<br \/>\nWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King - longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada<br \/>\nSir John A. Macdonald - frst Prime Minister of Canada<br \/>\nAlice Munro - Nobel laureate author<br \/>\nJill Hennessy - actress<br \/>\nBrian Mulroney - 18th Prime Minister of Canada<br \/>\nEugene O\u2019Keefe - businessman and philanthropist<br \/>\nLeslie Nielsen - actor<br \/>\nRachel McAdams - actress<br \/>\nMichael Coren - British-Canadian columnist, author, public speaker<br \/>\nRobertson Davies - novelist<br \/>\nMarshall McLuhan - communication and media theorist<br \/>\nAnne Murray - singer, entertainer<br \/>\nJames Naismith - inventor of basketball<br \/>\nBeverley McLachlin - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada<br \/>\nSimon Fraser - Northwest Company trader and explorer<br \/>\nAlexander MacKenzie - Northwest Company trader and explorer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba353535c\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Cuban immigration to Canada started in the 1980s. According to the 2016 census, there were<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> 29,065 Canadians who claimed full or partial Cuban ancestry. Canada is home to the third<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> largest Cuban immigrant community in the world after the United States and Spain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nAlexis Puentes - musician<br \/>\nJos\u00e9 Latour - novelist<br \/>\nTed Cruz - U.S. Senator from Texas since 2013<br \/>\nRafael Bienvenido Cruz - public speaker<br \/>\nKianz Froese - professional soccer player<br \/>\nArturo Miranda - professional diver<br \/>\nEduardo Sebrango - former professional soccer player<br \/>\nDaniel Pinero - baseball shortstop<br \/>\nDavid Alvarez - actor<br \/>\nGeorge A. Romero - filmmaker, writer, and editor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba29435312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Filipino Canadians<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> 837,130 (Census 2016)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Canadians of Filipino descent or people born in the Philippines who reside in Canada. Filipino Canadians are the third largest<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> subgroup of the overseas filipinos and one of the fastest growing groups in Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Joey Albert - recording artist<br \/>\nMikey Bustos - Canadian Idol finalist, singer<br \/>\nMa-Anne Dionisio - theatre actress<br \/>\nDarren Espanto - The Voice Kids - Philippines season one<br \/>\nAmm Gryner - multiple Juno Awards nominee<br \/>\nJe\ufb00 Rustia - Tv host and VJ<br \/>\nMaylee Todd - indie pop singer<br \/>\nLucky Aces - Hip hop duo<br \/>\nTobias C.Enverga - first flipino-canadian senator<br \/>\nKris Reyes - news anchor<br \/>\nRon Josol - stand-up comedian from Toronto<br \/>\nAriel Rivera - singer-songwriter<br \/>\nCrispin Duenas - olympic archer<br \/>\nRey Fortaleza - olympic boxer<br \/>\nAlex Pagulayan - 2004 world pool champion<br \/>\nMathew Dumba - hockey player<br \/>\nFrancis Manapul - comic book artist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba30535330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>348,085 (Census 2016 )<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> The frst Hungarians arrived in Alberta in 1866 with Count Paul Oskar Eszterhazy, who wanted Hungarians to resettle after they<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> had immigrated originally to Pensylvania<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nKati Ag\u00f3cs - composer<br \/>\nAttila Buday - Olympic canoer<br \/>\nTamas Buday Jr. - Olympic canoer<br \/>\nJulius T. Csotonyi - paleoartist and illustrator<br \/>\nGeorge Jonas - writer, poet, and journalist<br \/>\nRobert Lantos - flm producer<br \/>\nAttila Richards Lukacs - artist<br \/>\nAttila Mikloshazy - former Jesuit bishop<br \/>\nAlanis Morissette - singer, actress, and musician<br \/>\nAustin Pasztor - American football player<br \/>\nGeorge Sipos - writer<br \/>\nShannon Szabados - ice hockey player<br \/>\nAaron Voros - ice hockey player<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba3535535c\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Indian Canadians are one of the most diverse ethnocultural populations in Canada. Census fgures on ethnic origin reported that<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> there were more than 1.9 million South Asian Canadians in 2016. South Asians share cultural and historical characteristics, and<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> their basic identifcation is more specifcally tied to their ethnocultural roots. Over 20 distinct ethnic groups can be identifed<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> within the large South Asian population.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nAkshay Kumar - Bollywood actor<br \/>\nBharat Agnihotri - Alberta Liberal MLA<br \/>\nNira Arora - morning show radio host<br \/>\nJeet Aulakh - spiritual contemporary artist<br \/>\nAnita Rau Badami - novelist<br \/>\nAshish Bagai - captain of the Canadian cricket team<br \/>\nRavi Baichwal - news anchor and reporter at WLS-TV<br \/>\nHarry Bains - British Columbia New Democratic MLA<br \/>\nNavdeep Bains - Liberal Member of Parliament<br \/>\nShauna Singh Baldwin - novelist<br \/>\nBas Balkissoon - MPP<br \/>\nSheela Basrur - former Ontario Chief Medical O\ufb03cer of Health<br \/>\nNuvraj Singh Bassi - professional football player<br \/>\nNadira Begg - television journalist<br \/>\nStan Bharti - businessman and philanthropist<br \/>\nSim Bhullar - NBA basketball player<br \/>\nNeil Bissoondath - author<br \/>\nGlenda Braganza - actress<br \/>\nJagrup Brar - British Columbia NDP MLA<br \/>\nBaljit Singh Chadha - businessman<br \/>\nGulzar Singh Cheema - Manitoba and British Columbia MLA<br \/>\nJasbir Singh Cheema - politician<br \/>\nPaul Chohan - feld hockey player<br \/>\nRaj Chouhan - British Columbia NDP MLA<br \/>\nCindy Daniel - singer<br \/>\nJoe Daniel - Conservative MP<br \/>\nAgam Darshi - actress and flmmaker<br \/>\nMonika Deol - former MuchMusic host and CIVT news anchor<br \/>\nSudi Devanesen - physician and member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nHerb Dhaliwal - Liberal MP<br \/>\nRanj Dhaliwal - Canadian author<br \/>\nSukh Dhaliwal - Liberal MP<br \/>\nNaranjan Dhalla - cardiovascular research scientist<br \/>\nRuby Dhalla - Liberal MP<br \/>\nSunil Dhaniram - cricket player<br \/>\nBob Singh Dhillon - businessman<br \/>\nHaninder Dhillon - cricket player<br \/>\nR Paul Dhillon - director, producer, writer, and journalist<br \/>\nVekeana Dhillon - screenwriter, television presenter, actress<br \/>\nVic Dhillon - Ontario Liberal MPP<br \/>\nVikram Dhillon - Vancouver producer, director, actor<br \/>\nUjjal Dosanjh - former Premier of British Columbia<br \/>\nJohn Dossetor - physician and bioethicist<br \/>\nMerella Fernandez - Canadian reporter and anchor for CityNews in Toronto<br \/>\nNisha Ganatra - flm director, flm producer, writer, and actor<br \/>\nShuman Ghosemajumder - businessman and computer scientist<br \/>\nSara Ghulam - Miss World Canada 2007<br \/>\nRaminder Gill - former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP<br \/>\nDylan Mohan Gray - flm director, producer, writer<br \/>\nGurmant Grewal - former Conservative MP<br \/>\nNina Grewal - Conservative MP<br \/>\nSyeda Saiyidain Hameed - social and women's rights activist<br \/>\nIan Hanomansing - CBC journalist<br \/>\nTara Singh Hayer - newspaper publisher<br \/>\nKamal Heer - singer<br \/>\nIndrani - photographer, director, TV personality, and model<br \/>\nChin Injeti - R&amp;B musician<br \/>\nAnosh Irani - novelist and playwright<br \/>\nMobina Ja\ufb00er - senator<br \/>\nRahim Ja\ufb00er - former Alberta Conservative MP<br \/>\nJazzy B - singer<br \/>\nAditya Jha - Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist<br \/>\nBidhu Jha - Manitoba NDP MLA<br \/>\nAvan Jogia - actor<br \/>\nRavi Kahlon - feld hockey player<br \/>\nHari Kant - former feld hockey goalkeeper<br \/>\nVim Kochhar - businessman and senator<br \/>\nKoushik - hip hop musician<br \/>\nKuldip Singh Kular - former Ontario Liberal MPP<br \/>\nBindi Kullar - feld hockey player<br \/>\nFaisal Kutty - attorney, writer, and law professor<br \/>\nHarold Sonny Ladoo - novelist and author<br \/>\nNancy Lee - short story writer and novelist<br \/>\nAnita Majumdar - actress<br \/>\nShaun Majumder - actor\/comedian<br \/>\nGurbax Singh Malhi - former Liberal MP<br \/>\nManny Malhotra - hockey player<br \/>\nSamir Mallal - flmmaker<br \/>\nAmrit Mangat - Ontario Liberal MPP<br \/>\nIrshad Manji - author<br \/>\nHarbhajan Mann - singer<br \/>\nSalim Mansur - columnist for the London Free Press<br \/>\nSuleka Mathew - actress<br \/>\nAshok Mathur - writer and professor<br \/>\nDevika Mathur - singer<br \/>\nSuhana Meharchand - journalist, C BC<br \/>\nDeepa Mehta - flm director<br \/>\nNicky Mehta - singer<br \/>\nRichie Mehta - director<br \/>\nShaun Mehta - writer<br \/>\nRohinton Mistry - novelist<br \/>\nShani Mootoo - writer<br \/>\nAlok Mukherjee - chair of the Toronto Police Services Board<br \/>\nAudri Mukhopadhyay - Canadian diplomat<br \/>\nM. Ram Murty - head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics<br \/>\nRoger Nair - flmmaker, executive on Toronto Film Board<br \/>\nRob Nijjar - former BC Liberal MLA<br \/>\nLata Pada - Bharatanatyam dancer<br \/>\nRaj Pannu - former leader of the Alberta New Democrats<br \/>\nNilesh Patel - flm director and producer<br \/>\nRussell Peters - stand-up comedian<br \/>\nDeepak Obhrai - Alberta Conservative MP, Calgary<br \/>\nWally Oppal - Attorney General of British Columbia<br \/>\nRaghav - R&amp;B singer<br \/>\nPamela Rai - Canadian Olympic medallist, swimmer<br \/>\nMonita Rajpal - CNN International news anchor<br \/>\nAjmer Rode - poet and playwright<br \/>\nRenee Rosnes - jazz pianist and composer\/arranger<br \/>\nPatty Sahota - former BC Liberal MLA<br \/>\nDeep Saini - Vice President of University of Toronto<br \/>\nSugar Sammy - comedian<br \/>\nEmanuel Sandhu - fgure skater<br \/>\nHarpreet Singh Sandhu - editor of Asian Vision<br \/>\nSurendra Seeraj - cricket player<br \/>\nSarika Sehgal - CBC broadcast journalist<br \/>\nAsha Seth - senator<br \/>\nChandrakant Shah - recipient of Order of Ontario<br \/>\nDevinder Shory - Member of Parliament<br \/>\nDurand Soraine - cricket player<br \/>\nHarinder Takhar - Ontario Liberal MPP<br \/>\nSam Tata - portrait photographer<br \/>\nPriscilla Uppal - novelist and poet<br \/>\nTim Uppal - MP, Alberta<br \/>\nM.G. Vassanji - novelist<br \/>\nAli Velshi - stock analyst and television journalist<br \/>\nMurad Velshi - former Ontario Liberal MPP<br \/>\nNeelam Verma - Miss Universe Canada 2002<br \/>\nRichard Verma - U.S. Ambassador to India since 2015<br \/>\nRavi Walia - fgure skater<br \/>\nManmohan Waris - singer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba293s5312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Italian Canadians are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Italian heritage or Italians who immigrated to and reside in<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Canada. According to the 2016 Census of Canada, 1,587,965 Canadians claimed full or partial Italian ancestry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nMike Accursi - lacrosse player<br \/>\nJeremy Adduono - ice hockey player<br \/>\nRay Adduono - ice hockey player<br \/>\nRick Bartolucci - Ontario politician<br \/>\nSean Bentivoglio - ice hockey player<br \/>\nPaul Beraldo - ice hockey player<br \/>\nLorenzo Berardinetti - Ontario politician<br \/>\nMassimo Bertocchi - Olympic decathlete<br \/>\nReno Bertoia - baseball player<br \/>\nTodd Bertuzzi - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMaurizio Bevilacqua - politician<br \/>\nWayne Bianchin - ice hockey player<br \/>\nDave Bidini - musician and writer<br \/>\nBrandon Bonifacio - soccer player<br \/>\nB\u00e9atrice Bonifassi - vocalist<br \/>\nLuciano Borsato - ice hockey player<br \/>\nPeter Bosa - politician<br \/>\nEmilio Bottiglieri - soccer player<br \/>\nMichael Bubl\u00e9 - singer and actor<br \/>\nWally Buono - coach of BCL<br \/>\nSveva Caetani - artist<br \/>\nPietro Calendino - BC politician<br \/>\nMarco Calliari - singer<br \/>\nHerb Capozzi - businessman<br \/>\nVittorio Capparelli - politician<br \/>\nMassimo Capra - chef<br \/>\nAlessia Cara - singer and songwriter<br \/>\nGiulio Caravatta - Canadian football player<br \/>\nAnnamarie Castrilli - former politician<br \/>\nDaniel Catenacci - ice hockey player<br \/>\nTony Caterina - politician<br \/>\nCosimo Cavallaro - artist, flmmaker, and sculptor<br \/>\nPaolo Ceccarelli - soccer goalkeeper<br \/>\nFulvio Cecere - actor<br \/>\nCody Ceci - ice hockey player<br \/>\nJoe Ceci - politician<br \/>\nRick Celebrini - soccer player<br \/>\nRita Celli - journalist<br \/>\nGene Ceppetelli - soccer player<br \/>\nRick Chiarelli - Ottawa city councillor<br \/>\nJuan Chioran - voice actor and singer<br \/>\nMario Chitaroni - ice hockey player<br \/>\nFrank Ciaccia - former soccer player<br \/>\nJerry Ciccoritti - director<br \/>\nSanto Condorelli - Olympic swimmer<br \/>\nLuca Congi - Canadian football player<br \/>\nAlexander Conti - actor<br \/>\nJoe Contini - ice hockey player<br \/>\nCarlo Corazzin - former soccer player<br \/>\nJoseph Cordiano - Ontario politician<br \/>\nFrank Cosentino - Canadian football player<br \/>\nPaulo Costanzo - actor<br \/>\nJoseph Cramarossa - ice hockey player<br \/>\nVincent Crisanti - politician<br \/>\nJames Cunningham - comedian<br \/>\nAntonio Cupo - actor<br \/>\nBill Cupolo - ice hockey player<br \/>\nFreddy Curci - vocalist and songwriter<br \/>\nBobby Curtola - musician<br \/>\nAngela Cutrone - speed skater<br \/>\nWilliam Cusano - Quebec politician<br \/>\nJoe Cuzzetto - soccer player<br \/>\nAntonio D'Alfonso - bilingual writer and editor<br \/>\nPeter Dalla Riva - Canadian football player<br \/>\nJohn D'Amico - ice hockey player<br \/>\nScott D'Amore - professional wrestler<br \/>\nFrank D'Angelo - entrepreneur<br \/>\nSabrina D'Angelo - soccer player<br \/>\nCindy Daniel - singer<br \/>\nMichael D'Ascenzo - actor<br \/>\nRita de Santis - politician<br \/>\nTony De Thomasis - soccer manager<br \/>\nSandro DeAngelis - Canadian football player<br \/>\nMarcel DeBellis - soccer player<br \/>\nAnne Marie DeCicco-Best - mayor<br \/>\nJohnnie Dee - vocalist<br \/>\nDean DeFazio - ice hockey player<br \/>\nDean Del Mastro - former politician<br \/>\nVincent Della Noce - politician<br \/>\nEddie Della Siepe - comedian and actor<br \/>\nPier Giorgio Di Cicco - poet<br \/>\nFrank Ferragine - Toronto television personality<br \/>\nLandon Ferraro - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMarisa Ferretti Barth - politician<br \/>\nMario Ferri - community organizer<br \/>\nPat Fiacco - businessman<br \/>\nFab Filippo - actor<br \/>\nJoe Fiorito - journalist and novelist<br \/>\nSarah Gadon - actress<br \/>\nRocco Galati - lawyer<br \/>\nSteve Galluccio - screenwriter<br \/>\nMary Garofalo - television journalist<br \/>\nDavid Giammarco - actor<br \/>\nDaniel Girardi - ice hockey player<br \/>\nGerome Giudice - ice hockey player<br \/>\nGigi Gorgeous - actress and model<br \/>\nThomas Grandi - skier<br \/>\nMarco Grazzini - actor<br \/>\nSabrina Grdevich - actress<br \/>\nPeter Greco - soccer player<br \/>\nPeter Guarasci - basketball player<br \/>\nGarry Guzzo - Ontario politician<br \/>\nJill Hennessy - actress and musician<br \/>\nSelenia Iacchelli - soccer player<br \/>\nLucio Ianiero - soccer player<br \/>\nTony Ianzelo - director and cinematographer<br \/>\nRobert Iarusci - soccer player<br \/>\nIllangelo - musician<br \/>\nLily Inglis - architect<br \/>\nRalph Intranuovo - ice hockey player<br \/>\nCarmine Isacco - soccer coach<br \/>\nEthan Kath - singer and songwriter<br \/>\nJessica Parker Kennedy - actress<br \/>\nVince Kerrio - businessman and politician<br \/>\nVictor Kodelja - soccer player<br \/>\nNicholas La Monaca - soccer goalkeeper<br \/>\nAlyssa Lagonia - soccer player<br \/>\nThomas W. LaSorda - vice-chairman and president of Chrysler<br \/>\nLucas Lessio - ice hockey player<br \/>\nCarlo Liconti - flm producer<br \/>\nSpencer Lofranco - actor<br \/>\nLuigi Logrippo - professor<br \/>\nJohnny Lombardi - broadcasting executive<br \/>\nMatthew Lombardi - ice hockey player<br \/>\nAndrea Lombardo - soccer player<br \/>\nCarmen Lombardo - musician<br \/>\nDanny Maciocia - Canadian football coach<br \/>\nFranco Magnifco - businessman and politician<br \/>\nRay Maluta - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMark Mancari - ice hockey player<br \/>\nNick Mancuso - actor<br \/>\nAnthony S. Manera - former CBC president<br \/>\nSergio Marchionne - CEO of Fiat and Chrysler<br \/>\nCharles Marega - sculptor<br \/>\nGabriella Martinelli - flm producer<br \/>\nJulian Melchiori - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMary Melf - novelist, poet, and playwright<br \/>\nMarco Micone - Quebec academic<br \/>\nRamona Milano - actress<br \/>\nMaria Minna - politician<br \/>\nEddie Mio - ice hockey goaltender<br \/>\nGiorgio Mitolo - newscaster and reporter<br \/>\nAngie Moretto - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMarc Moro - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMike Morreale - football player<br \/>\nCarmelina Moscato - soccer player<br \/>\nDomenico Moschella - politician<br \/>\nMarcello Musto - professor<br \/>\nJason Muzzatti - ice hockey player<br \/>\nTony Nappo - actor<br \/>\nTony Nardi - bilingual actor<br \/>\nSilvio Narizzano - flm and television director<br \/>\nAngelo Natale - trade union leader<br \/>\nVincenzo Natali - flm director and screenwriter<br \/>\nSergio Navarretta - flm director and producer<br \/>\nFrank Nigro - ice hockey player<br \/>\nGuido Nincheri - artist<br \/>\nAldo Nova - musician and vocalist<br \/>\nFrances Nunziata - Toronto city councillor<br \/>\nJohn Nunziata - politician<br \/>\nPeter Oliva - novelist<br \/>\nAndrew Olivieri - soccer player<br \/>\nGiuliano Oliviero - soccer player<br \/>\nAmerica Olivo - actress, singer, and model<br \/>\nDavid Orazietti - politician<br \/>\nAlexandra Orlando - rhythmic gymnast<br \/>\nGaetano Orlando - ice hockey player<br \/>\nMarina Orsini - actress<br \/>\nMassimo Pacetti - politician<br \/>\nPete Palangio - ice hockey player<br \/>\nAl Palladini - politician<br \/>\nMatthew Palleschi - soccer player<br \/>\nLouie Palu - photographer and flmmaker<br \/>\nJoe Pantalone - Toronto city councillor<br \/>\nJohn Parco - ice hockey coach<br \/>\nSarina Paris - singer<br \/>\nPaul Bonifacio Parkinson - fgure skater<br \/>\nDominic Perri - politician<br \/>\nPaul Perri - actor<br \/>\nSandro Perri - musician<br \/>\nAnthony Perruzza - Ontario politician<br \/>\nAngelo Persichilli - journalist<br \/>\nJoe Peschisolido - politician<br \/>\nPaul Peschisolido - soccer player<br \/>\nMichael Petrasso - soccer player<br \/>\nNina Petronzio - interior designer<br \/>\nLauren Phoenix - adult actress<br \/>\nAlessandra Piccione - screenwriter and producer<br \/>\nAlex Pietrangelo - ice hockey player<br \/>\nFrank Pietrangelo - ice hockey player<br \/>\nPaolo Pietropaolo - radio host and musician<br \/>\nVincenzo Pietropaolo - photographer<br \/>\nMarco Polo - music producer<br \/>\nClaudio Polsinelli - Ontario politician<br \/>\nTony Rizzo - Ontario politician<br \/>\nTony Romandini - musician<br \/>\nRocco Romano - football player<br \/>\nMike Rosati - ice hockey player<br \/>\nTony Rosato - actor<br \/>\nVittorio Rossi - actor and director<br \/>\nAnthony Rota - politician<br \/>\nCarlo Rota - actor<br \/>\nFilomena Rotiroti - politician<br \/>\nGuy Rubino - chef<br \/>\nSteve Rucchin - ice hockey player<br \/>\nAdamo Ruggiero - actor<br \/>\nLaura Sabia - social activist and feminist<br \/>\nTed Salci - mayor of Niagara Falls<br \/>\nBobby Sanguinetti - ice hockey player<br \/>\nGreg Sansone - sports anchor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba3c035330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>622,445 (Census 2016 )<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> First Russian immigrants arrived in Canada in 1899.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Seventy fve hundred Doukhobors settled in the country, aided in Russia by the famous writer Leo Tolstoy and in Canada by<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Professor James Mavor and Clifford Sifton, then minister of the interior.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nOLGA ALEXANDROVNA - Grand Duchess of Russia<br \/>\nSAUL BELLOW - writer, Nobel prize in literature<br \/>\nMARTIN KAMEN - physicist, member of \u201cThe Manhattan Project\u201d<br \/>\nMARTIN DOBKIN - politician, frst mayor of Mississauga<br \/>\nMICHAEL IGNATIEFF - author, journalist, academic, politician<br \/>\nGREGORY CHAMITOFF - NASA astronaut<br \/>\nJOHN TORY - Mayor of Toronto<br \/>\nLOIS HOLE - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta<br \/>\nSAIDYE ROSHER BRONFMAN - billionaire, founder of the Seagram company<br \/>\nPAMELA ANDERSON - actress<br \/>\nTED LIPMAN - diplomat, ambassador<br \/>\nBEN HATSKIN - founder of the Winnipeg Jets<br \/>\nGREGORY LEKHTMAN - inventor and entrepreneur<br \/>\nMARINA ZUEVA - ice dancing and singles coach and choreographer<br \/>\nGEORGE VOLKOFF - physicist<br \/>\nA-Trak - musician<br \/>\nHarvey Atkin - voice-over actor<br \/>\nAlex Battler - writer<br \/>\nArnold Belkin - painter<br \/>\nChinawoman - singer<br \/>\nLudmilla Chiriae\ufb00 - ballet dancer, choreographer and company director<br \/>\nMelyssa Ford - model and actress<br \/>\nVictor Garber - actor, Titanic, Argo, Star Trek<br \/>\nNatalie Glebova - Miss Universe 2005, Miss Universe Canada 2005<br \/>\nAnais Granofsky - actress, Degrassi Junior High<br \/>\nLorne Greene - actor, Battlestar Galactica<br \/>\nGeorge Grie - artist<br \/>\nGrimes - Juno Award-winning producer and musician<br \/>\nMelissa Hayden - ballerina<br \/>\nJessica Parker Kennedy - actress, The Secret Circle, Smallville, Black Sails<br \/>\nK.d. lang - musician, winner of Juno and Grammy<br \/>\nEzra Levant - media personality<br \/>\nNadia Litz - actress<br \/>\nGeorge London - singer<br \/>\nEli Mandel - poet<br \/>\nCatherine Manoukian - violinist<br \/>\nNiall Matter - actor, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, Melrose Place, 90210<br \/>\nSophie Milman - jazz musician<br \/>\nZara Nelsova - cellist<br \/>\nSarah Polley - actress and film director, Order of Canada<br \/>\nDuncan Regehr - writer and actor, Star Trek<br \/>\nCoco Rocha - fashion model and cover girl<br \/>\nSasha Roiz - actor<br \/>\nElena Semikina - Miss Universe Canada 2010<br \/>\nInga Skaya - Miss Universe Canada 2007<br \/>\nSocalled - musician<br \/>\nKsenia Solo - actress, Black Swan<br \/>\nMadeline Sonik - writer<br \/>\nJessica Trisko - Miss Earth 2007<br \/>\nWatts - produced for Method Man, Redman, and Snoop Dogg<br \/>\nAdele Wiseman - author<br \/>\nBluma Appel - philanthropist<br \/>\nJohn Boyarski - recipient of awards for bravery<br \/>\nCharles Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family<br \/>\nEdgar Bronfman, Sr. - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family<br \/>\nSamuel Bronfman - billionaire, member of the Bronfman family<br \/>\nArcadi Gaydamak - businessman<br \/>\nJamie Glazov - managing editor of Frontpage Magazine<br \/>\nSonia Scurfeld - owner of the Calgary Flames in the 1980s and 1990s<br \/>\nAlex Shnaider - co-founder of the Midland Group<br \/>\nAlex Atamanenko - Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada<br \/>\nVasile Balabanov - Imperial Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9<br \/>\nCatherine Doherty - Imperial Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9, social activist<br \/>\nSiegfried Enns - member of the Canadian House of Commons<br \/>\nGeorge Ignatie\ufb00 - Canadian diplomat<br \/>\nTom Nevakshono\ufb00 - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba<br \/>\nReynold Rapp - Member of the House of Commons of Canada<br \/>\nPeter Vasilevich Verigin - Doukhobor leader<br \/>\nPyotr Verzilov - activist<br \/>\nMichel Chossudovsky - writer and professor of economics at the University of Ottawa<br \/>\nAndrew Donskov - professor of modern languages at the University of Ottawa<br \/>\nIsrael Halperin - mathematician<br \/>\nHarry Medovy - pediatrician and academic, Order of Canada<br \/>\nPierre Milman - mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,<br \/>\nSergei Plekhanov - Professor of Political Science at York University<br \/>\nLouis Slotin - physicist, member of the Manhattan Project<br \/>\nVioletta Afanasieva - figure skater<br \/>\nNik Antropov - hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) and the KHL<br \/>\nIvan Babikov - Olympic cross-country skier<br \/>\nPatricia Bezzoubenko - rhythmic gymnast<br \/>\nBoris Blumin - chess grandmaster<br \/>\nMark Bluvshtein - chess grandmaster<br \/>\n\u00c9douard Carpentier - professional wrestler<br \/>\nJoshua Ho-Sang - hockey player with the OHL<br \/>\nIgor Ivanov - chess grandmaster<br \/>\nLioudmila Kortchguina - marathon runner<br \/>\nCrazy Leo - rally driver<br \/>\nAndrei Markov - NHL hockey player<br \/>\nOlga Ovtchinnikova - Olympic fencer<br \/>\nAndrei Rogozine - world champion figure skater<br \/>\nBobbie Rosenfeld - Olympic gold medalist<br \/>\nTamerlan Tagziev - wrestler, gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games<br \/>\nIgor Tikhomirov - Olympic champion in fencing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba35v3535c\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>1,359,655 (Census 2016 )<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> The frst Ukrainian immigrants arrived in Canada in 1891-93. They settled at Edna-Star,<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Alberta, in the vicinity of Fort Saskatchewan, where they farmed land and eventually<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> became successful landowners.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nRamon John Hnatyshyn - Governor-General of Canada<br \/>\nEugene Melnyk - Owner of The Ottawa Senators NHL Hockey Team<br \/>\nWilliam Shanter - Actor<br \/>\nJoe Shuster - Co-creator of Superman<br \/>\nJohn Sopinka - Justice of The Supreme Court Of Canada<br \/>\nAlex Trebek - Television Game Show Host<br \/>\nRoberta Bondar - Astronaut<br \/>\nKatheryn Winnick - Actress<br \/>\nEd Stelmach - Premier of Alberta from 2006 to 2011<br \/>\nDaria Werbowy - Model<br \/>\nRoman Danylo - comedian<br \/>\nFred Ewanuick - actor<br \/>\nLuba Goy - comedian<br \/>\nJeremy Kushnier - actor\/singer<br \/>\nTatiana Maslany - actress<br \/>\nJames Motluk - flmmaker<br \/>\nAdam Smoluk - director, screenwriter and actor<br \/>\nEdward Burtynsky - photographer<br \/>\nDenys Drozdyuk - ballroom dancer<br \/>\nJohn Kricfalusi - cartoonist<br \/>\nWilliam Kurelek - artist<br \/>\nOleg Lipchenko - artist<br \/>\nDave Andreychuk - hockey player<br \/>\nBill Barilko - hockey player<br \/>\nMike Bossy - hockey player<br \/>\nTyler Bozak - hockey player<br \/>\nTurk Broda - hockey player<br \/>\nJohn Bucyk - hockey player<br \/>\nKerry Burtnyk - curler<br \/>\nRandy Ferbey - curler<br \/>\nDale Hawerchuk - hockey player<br \/>\nJo\ufb00rey Lupul - hockey player<br \/>\nOrest Meleschuk - curler<br \/>\nJ.D. Michaels - professional wrestler<br \/>\nBill Mosienko - hockey player<br \/>\nKelly Olynyk - basketball player<br \/>\nAlexei Ponikarovsky - hockey player<br \/>\nTerry Sawchuk - ice hockey goaltender<br \/>\nEddie Shack - hockey player<br \/>\nJordin Tootoo - hockey player<br \/>\nEd Werenich - curler<br \/>\nEdward Bayda - former Chief Justice of Saskatchewan<br \/>\nPeter Dmytruk - war hero (WWII), Royal Canadian Air Force<br \/>\nFilip Konowal - Victoria Cross recipient<br \/>\nRandy Bachman - musician<br \/>\nPaul Brandt - country music artist<br \/>\nRon Cahute - musician<br \/>\nRick Danko - musician, former bassist and singer of The Band<br \/>\nIvan and Stefan Doroschuk - musicians (Men Without Hats)<br \/>\nGordie Johnson - musician<br \/>\nJuliette - singer and CBC television host<br \/>\nTheresa Sokyrka - singer<br \/>\nRoman Soltykewych - conductor<br \/>\nJames Bezan - member of parliament<br \/>\nErnie Eves - former Premier of Ontario<br \/>\nEd Ewasiuk - labour activist, city councilor<br \/>\nSylvia Fedoruk - Canadian scientist, curler<br \/>\nGary Filmon - former premier of Manitoba<br \/>\nChrystia Freeland - Canadian Minister<br \/>\nStephen Juba - former mayor of Winnipeg<br \/>\nGerard Kennedy - Ontario cabinet minister<br \/>\nPeter Liba - former lieutenant-governor of Manitoba<br \/>\nMaryAnn Mihychuk - Canadian Minister of Employment, Workforce, and Labour<br \/>\nSteve Peters - Ontario cabinet minister<br \/>\nRoy Romanow - former premier of Saskatchewan<br \/>\nDon Rusnak - member of parliament<br \/>\nEdward Schreyer - former governor-general of Canada<br \/>\nMichael Starr - former cabinet minister<br \/>\nJudy Wasylycia-Leis - former member of parliament<br \/>\nBorys Wrzesnewskyj - member of parliament<br \/>\nJohn Yaremko - longest serving cabinet minister<br \/>\nPaul Yuzyk - former senator<br \/>\nAlbert Bandura - psychologist<br \/>\nIsydore Hlynka - biochemist, Ukrainian Canadian community leader<br \/>\nTaras Kuzio - Ukraine expert<br \/>\nGeorge S. N. Luckyj - scholar of Ukrainian literature<br \/>\nLubomyr Romankiw - scientist, Ph.D. degrees in metallurgy and materials<br \/>\nJaroslav Rudnyckyj - linguist, a founding father of Canadian multiculturalism<br \/>\nAlex Biega - lawyer and author<br \/>\nMarsha Skrypuch - writer<br \/>\nFedor Bohatirchuk - chess player<br \/>\nAnnie Buller - union organizer<br \/>\nBohdan Hawrylyshyn - visionary and economic advisor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba29x35312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Indigenous peoples (also referred to as Aboriginal peoples) have been in Canada since time immemorial. They formed complex social, political, economic, and cultural systems before Europeans came to North America.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>In Canada, the term Indigenous peoples (or Aboriginal peoples) refers to First Nations, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit peoples. These are the original inhabitants of the land that is now Canada. Though severely threatened \u2014 and in certain cases extinguished \u2014 by colonial forces, indigenous culture, language, and social systems have shaped the development of Canada and continue to grow and thrive despite extreme adversity.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 2,130,520 Canadians of Aboriginal origins in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Famous Aboriginal Canadians<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>First Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aaron Nelson-Moody, woodcarver<br \/>\nAatsista-Mahkan, Blackfoot chief<br \/>\nAbishabis, Cree religious leader<br \/>\nA-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, Blackfoot chief<br \/>\nAdam Beach, actor<br \/>\nAgouhanna, chief of Hochelega<br \/>\nAlanis Obomsawin, filmmaker<br \/>\nAlex Janvier, Dene Suline-Saulteaux artist<br \/>\nAlfred Scow, judge and hereditary chief<br \/>\nAlwyn Morris, athlete<br \/>\nAnahareo (Gertrude Bernard), author<br \/>\nAndy de Jarlis, M\u00e9tis fiddler<br \/>\nAnna Mae Aquash, Mi'kmaq activist<br \/>\nArmond Duck Chief, country singer-songwriter<br \/>\nArron Asham, NHL hockey player<br \/>\nAuoindaon, Wyandot chief<br \/>\nBarbara Wardlaw, interim leader, First Peoples National Party of Canada<br \/>\nBernard Ominayak, elected leader of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation<br \/>\nBert Crowfoot, broadcaster and journalist<br \/>\nBev Sellars, Secwepemc writer and chief<br \/>\nBig Bear, Cree chief<br \/>\nBill Reid, Haida jeweler, sculptor, and artist<br \/>\nBilly Merasty, actor<br \/>\nBonnie Devine, Ojibway conceptual artist<br \/>\nBuffy Sainte-Marie, Cree musician<br \/>\nByron Chief-Moon, Kainai Nation American-born actor<br \/>\nCarey Price, NHL hockey player<br \/>\nCarla Robinson, television journalist<br \/>\nChief Pontiac, Odawa war leader<br \/>\nChief William Jeffrey, Tsimshian hereditary chief, activist, and carver<br \/>\nClaude McKenzie, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nColumpa Bobb, actor, playwright, and poet<br \/>\nCree Summer, voice actress<br \/>\nCrowfoot, Blackfoot chief<br \/>\nCrystal Shawanda, musician<br \/>\nDan George, actor and Salish chief<br \/>\nDaniel David Moses, poet and playwright<br \/>\nDaphne Odjig, Odawa-Potawatomi painter<br \/>\nDavid Ahenakew, politician<br \/>\nDavid B. Williams, Ojibway painter and printmaker<br \/>\nDavid Neel, Kwakwaka'wakw conceptual artist, print-maker, and author<br \/>\nDawson Charlie, co-discoverer of gold in the Yukon<br \/>\nDemasduit, one of the last Beothuk people<br \/>\nDempsey Bob, Tahltan-Tlingit woodcarver<br \/>\nDonald Marshall, Jr., wrongly convicted of murder<br \/>\nDonnacona, chief of Stadacona, site of present-day Quebec City<br \/>\nDouglas Cardinal, architect<br \/>\nDrew Hayden Taylor, playwright and journalist<br \/>\nDudley George, protester killed near Camp Ipperwash<br \/>\nDuncan McCue, journalist<br \/>\nEden Robinson, writer<br \/>\nEdward John, political leader<br \/>\nElijah Harper, politician<br \/>\nEllen Neel, Kwakwaka'wakw woodcarver<br \/>\nEric Robinson, politician<br \/>\nEthel Blondin-Andrew, politician<br \/>\nEvan Adams, Sliammon actor, doctor, and health policy expert<br \/>\nFlorent Vollant, Innu singer-songwriter<br \/>\nFrancis Pegahmagabow, sniper, Military Medal winner<br \/>\nFreda Ahenakew, author<br \/>\nFrederick Alexcee, Tsimshian-Iroquois woodcarver<br \/>\nGary Farmer (b. 1953) Cayuga actor and filmmaker<br \/>\nGary Merasty, politician<br \/>\nGary Potts, former chief of Temagami First Nation<br \/>\nGaylord Powless, lacrosse player<br \/>\nGeorge Leach, politician<br \/>\nGeorge Manuel, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations<br \/>\nGeorges Erasmus, politician<br \/>\nGerald McMaster, Siksika First Nation-Red Pheasant First Nation artist, author, curator<br \/>\nGilbert Monture, honorary chief of the Mohawk tribe<br \/>\nGordon Tootoosis, actor<br \/>\nGraham Greene, Oneida actor<br \/>\nGregory Scofield, writer<br \/>\nGuujaaw, Haida, carver, musician, and political activist<br \/>\nHarold Cardinal, writer and political leader<br \/>\nHarold Crowchild, last surviving Tsuu T'ina veteran of World War II<br \/>\nHelen Betty Osborne, Manitoba woman, kidnapped and murdered<br \/>\nHenri Membertou, Mi'kmaq leader<br \/>\nJackson Beardy, Ayisini painter<br \/>\nJames Bartleman, diplomat and author<br \/>\nJames Bourque, activist<br \/>\nJames Gabriel, Grand Chief of Kanesatake, Quebec<br \/>\nJames Gladstone, Canadian senator<br \/>\nJames Sewid, former chief councilor of the Kwakwaka'wakw<br \/>\nJay Silverheels, actor best known for playing Tonto<br \/>\nJeannette Armstrong, author, artist, and activist<br \/>\nJerry Alfred, musician<br \/>\nJerry Fontaine, politician<br \/>\nJimmy Herman, actor<br \/>\nJohn Harding (Sha ko hen the tha), chief of Kanesatake, Quebec<br \/>\nJonathan Cheechoo, ice hockey player<br \/>\nJonathan Genest-Jourdain, politician<br \/>\nJoseph Brant, Mohawk leader<br \/>\nJoseph Onasakenrat, Mohawk chief of Kanesatake, Quebec<br \/>\nJune Callwood, journalist, author, and social activist<br \/>\nKaniehtiio Horn, actress<br \/>\nKate Carmack, possible finder of the gold deposits in the Yukon<br \/>\nKa\u00faxuma N\u00fapika, prophetess<br \/>\nKeish (Skookum Jim Mason), discovered gold in the Yukon<br \/>\nKona Williams, forensic pathologist<br \/>\nLee Maracle, poet and author<br \/>\nLeela Gilday, Dene musician<br \/>\nLeonard Marchand, politician<br \/>\nLillian Dyck, Canadian senator<br \/>\nLoma Lyns, musician<br \/>\nLorne Cardinal, actor<br \/>\nMaquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth<br \/>\nMary Brant, Mohawk leader<br \/>\nMary Greyeyes-Reid, first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Forces<br \/>\nMary John, Sr., leader of the Dakelh or Carrier people<br \/>\nMary Kawennatakie Adams, Mohawk basket maker<br \/>\nMassey Whiteknife, businessman and musician<br \/>\nMatonabbee, Chipewyan hunter and leader<br \/>\nMatthew Coon Come, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations<br \/>\nMilton Born With A Tooth, activist<br \/>\nMorley Loon, musician<br \/>\nMungo Martin, Kwakwaka'wakw woodcarver<br \/>\nMyron Wolf Child, youth activist, public speaker, and politician<br \/>\nNadine Caron, first female First Nations Canadian general surgeon<br \/>\nNahnebahwequa, Ojibwa spokeswoman and Christian Missionary<br \/>\nNathaniel Arcand, actor<br \/>\nNonosbawsut, leader of the Beothuk people<br \/>\nNorval Morrisseau, Ojibwe artist<br \/>\nOronhyatekha, first Aboriginal medical doctor<br \/>\nOscar Lathlin, politician<br \/>\nOvide Mercredi, politician<br \/>\nPaul DeVillers, politician<br \/>\nPauline Johnson, writer and performer<br \/>\nPerry Bellegarde, politician and leader of the Assembly of First Nations<br \/>\nPeter Penashue, politician<br \/>\nPhil Fontaine, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations<br \/>\nPiapot, leader, diplomat, warrior, horse thief, and spiritualist<br \/>\nPitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Cree chief<br \/>\nRainbow Sun Francks, Plains Cree actor<br \/>\nRalph Steinhauer, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta<br \/>\nRebecca Belmore, Ojibwe conceptual artist<br \/>\nReggie Leach, ice hockey player<br \/>\nRen\u00e9 Highway, dancer and actor<br \/>\nRobbie Robertson, songwriter and guitarist<br \/>\nRon Evans, politician<br \/>\nRoss Powless, lacrosse player<br \/>\nRoy Henry Vickers, Tsimshian artist<br \/>\nSamian, musician<br \/>\nSandra Lovelace Nicholas, Canadian senator<br \/>\nSandrine Renard, newscaster on the Naked News<br \/>\nShanawdithit, believed to have been the last surviving member of the Beothuk people<br \/>\nShawn Atleo, chief<br \/>\nSheldon Souray, ice hockey player<br \/>\nShelley Niro, New York-born Six Nations of the Grand River Mohawk artist and filmmaker<br \/>\nShingoose, musician<br \/>\nStephen Kakfwi, premier of the Northwest Territories<br \/>\nSteven Bonspille, Mohawk chief<br \/>\nSusan Point, Coast Salish artist<br \/>\nT. J. Burke, politician<br \/>\nTantoo Cardinal, actor<br \/>\nTara Lee Morin, writer<br \/>\nTecumseh, military leader, War of 1812<br \/>\nTed Moses, politician<br \/>\nTed Nolan, ice hockey player and coach<br \/>\nTina Keeper, activist, actress, and politician<br \/>\nTom Hogan, Ojibwe painter<br \/>\nTom Longboat, distance runner<br \/>\nTommy Prince, war hero<br \/>\nTomson Highway, playwright, novelist, and children's author<br \/>\nWab Kinew, musician and broadcaster<br \/>\nWalter Patrick Twinn, Canadian senator<br \/>\nWayne Keon (Nipissing First Nation), poet and short story writer<br \/>\nWill Morin, politician<br \/>\nWilliam Prince, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nWillie Dunn, filmmaker, folk musician, playwright, and politician<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Inuit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eva Aariak, politician, second Premier of Nunavut<br \/>\nAcoutsina, interpreter<br \/>\nWillie Adams, politician who was a member of the Senate of Canada<br \/>\nJohnny Ned Adams, pilot, businessman, and former mayor of the village of Kuujjuaq<br \/>\nSusan Aglukark, musician<br \/>\nLeona Aglukkaq, politician, Minister of Health and Minister of Environment<br \/>\nOlayuk Akesuk, politician<br \/>\nAtuat Akkitirq, filmmaker and costume designer, cofounder of Arnait Video Productions<br \/>\nTony Akoak, politician<br \/>\nDavid Alagalak, politician<br \/>\nOvide Alakannuark, politician<br \/>\nMadeleine Allakariallak, musician and television journalist<br \/>\nTitus Allooloo, politician and business man<br \/>\nSimeonie Amagoalik, carver<br \/>\nJack Anawak, politician<br \/>\nWilliam Andersen III, politician<br \/>\nWally Andersen, politician<br \/>\nPaul Apak Angilirq, film producer and screenwriter<br \/>\nMichael Angottitauruq, politician<br \/>\nStephen Angulalik, fur trader and trading post operator<br \/>\nIrene Kataq Angutitok, sculptor<br \/>\nMoses Appaqaq, carver, politician<br \/>\nJoe Arlooktoo, carver, politician<br \/>\nGoo Arlooktoo, politician<br \/>\nGermaine Arnaktauyok, printmaker, painter, and drawer<br \/>\nAlethea Arnaquq-Baril, producer and director<br \/>\nSilas Arngna'naaq, politician<br \/>\nJames Arreak, politician<br \/>\nJames Arvaluk, politician<br \/>\nKenojuak Ashevak, artist<br \/>\nShuvinai Ashoona, artist<br \/>\nPitseolak Ashoona, artist<br \/>\nAndrew Atagotaaluk, first Inuk diocesan bishop, Bishop of the Arctic<br \/>\nAua, angakkuq (shaman)<br \/>\nMoses Aupaluktuq, politician<br \/>\nLevi Barnabas, politician<br \/>\nErnie Bernhardt, politician<br \/>\nPaul-Andr\u00e9 Brasseur, actor<br \/>\nLevinia Brown, politician<br \/>\nCaubvick, visited England, smallpox carrier<br \/>\nNellie Cournoyea, politician, Premier of the Northwest Territories<br \/>\nCharlie Crow, politician, disc jockey<br \/>\nTagak Curley, politician, prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut<br \/>\nBeatrice Deer, singer<br \/>\nLisa Dempster, politician<br \/>\nEbierbing, guide, husband of Tookoolito<br \/>\nRandy Edmunds, politician<br \/>\nEdna Elias, politician, Commissioner of Nunavut<br \/>\nMonica Ell-Kanayuk, politician<br \/>\nJoe Enook, politician<br \/>\nTommy Enuaraq, politician, author<br \/>\nElijah Erkloo, politician<br \/>\nKingmeata Etidlooie, artist<br \/>\nTivi Etok, artist, illustrator, and printmaker<br \/>\nMark Evaloarjuk, business pioneer and politician<br \/>\nJoe Allen Evyagotailak, politician<br \/>\nAlice Masak French, author<br \/>\nSimon Gibbons, first Inuk priest<br \/>\nMelissa Haney, first female Inuk pilot to reach the rank of captain<br \/>\nGlenna Hansen, politician, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories<br \/>\nAnn Meekitjuk Hanson, politician, Commissioner of Nunavut<br \/>\nDonald Havioyak, politician<br \/>\nGeorge Hickes, Jr., politician<br \/>\nGeorge Hickes, Sr., politician<br \/>\nJoseph Idlout, featured on the former Canadian two-dollar bill<br \/>\nLucie Idlout, singer\/songwriter<br \/>\nOsuitok Ipeelee, sculptor<br \/>\nAlootook Ipellie, graphic artist, political and satirical cartoonist and writer, photographer, and Inuktitut translator<br \/>\nDavid Iqaqrialu, politician<br \/>\nPeter Irniq, politician, Commissioner of Nunavut<br \/>\nEnoki Irqittuq, politician<br \/>\nElisapie Isaac, pop singer, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and activist<br \/>\nPeter Ittinuar, politician, first Inuk to be elected as an MP<br \/>\nMadeline Ivalu, filmmaker and actor, cofounder of Arnait Video Productions<br \/>\nPaul-Dylan Ivalu, actor, grandson of Madeline Ivalu<br \/>\nDavid Joanasie, politician<br \/>\nYvonne Jones, politician, leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador<br \/>\nHelen Kalvak, graphic artist, angakkuq (shaman)<br \/>\nNancy Karetak-Lindell, politician<br \/>\nPeter Kattuk, politician<br \/>\nSimeonie Keenainak, musician and RCMP<br \/>\nPauloosie Keyootak, politician<br \/>\nJanet Kigusiuq, artist, daughter of Jessie Oonark<br \/>\nKikkik, charged with, but acquitted of, murder, child neglect, and causing the death of one of her children<br \/>\nIpeelee Kilabuk, politician<br \/>\nPeter Kilabuk, politician<br \/>\nKiviaq, lawyer, politician, and former sportsman<br \/>\nAdamee Komoartok, politician<br \/>\nDavid Pisurayak Kootook, saved the life of Marten Hartwell after an aircraft crash<br \/>\nMadeleine Isserkut Kringayak, sculptor and jewelry artist<br \/>\nPeter Kritaqliluk, politician<br \/>\nGeorge Kuksuk, politician<br \/>\nZacharias Kunuk, producer and director<br \/>\nFloyd Kuptana, artist, stone carvings<br \/>\nRosemarie Kuptana, Inuit rights activist, politician<br \/>\nNellie Kusugak, politician, Commissioner of Nunavut<br \/>\nLorne Kusugak, politician<br \/>\nMichael Kusugak, children's writer<br \/>\nJose Kusugak, politician<br \/>\nJohannes Lampe, politician<br \/>\nSarah Leo, politician<br \/>\nBill Lyall, politician, business man<br \/>\nHelen Maksagak, politician, Commissioner of Nunavut, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories<br \/>\nSteve Mapsalak, politician<br \/>\nMosha Michael, filmmaker, composer, carver<br \/>\nMikak, visited England, interpreter<br \/>\nJohnny Mike, politician<br \/>\nRebecca Mike, politician<br \/>\nAndy Miki, artist<br \/>\nSimeon Mikkungwak, politician<br \/>\nNakasuk, founder of Iqaluit<br \/>\nAgnes Nanogak, artist<br \/>\nPatterk Netser, politician<br \/>\nJohn Ningark, politician<br \/>\nJohnny Ningeongan, politician<br \/>\nWilliam Noah, politician, artist, son of Jessie Oonark<br \/>\nSamuel Nuqingaq, politician<br \/>\nJobie Nutarak, politician<br \/>\nNatan Obed, politician<br \/>\nPaul Okalik, politician, Premier of Nunavut<br \/>\nAbe Okpik, politician, community leader, head of Project Surname<br \/>\nJessie Oonark, artist, mother of Janet Kigusiuq and William Noah<br \/>\nOrpingalik, angakkuq (shaman), poet<br \/>\nHezakiah Oshutapik, politician<br \/>\nJohn Pangnark, sculptor<br \/>\nCharlie Panigoniak, singer-songwriter and guitarist<br \/>\nPauloosie Paniloo, politician<br \/>\nParr, artist<br \/>\nEnuk Pauloosie, politician<br \/>\nLena Pedersen, first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories<br \/>\nAaju Peter, lawyer and sealskin clothing designer<br \/>\nLooty Pijamini, artist<br \/>\nDavid Ruben Piqtoukun, artist<br \/>\nPeter Pitseolak, photographer, sculptor, artist and historian<br \/>\nAnnabella Piugattuk, actor<br \/>\nCalvin Pokiak, politician<br \/>\nAnnie Pootoogook, artist<br \/>\nKananginak Pootoogook, sculptor and printmaker<br \/>\nNapachie Pootoogook, artist, daughter of Pitseolak Ashoona and mother of Annie Pootoogook<br \/>\nPatty Pottle, politician<br \/>\nPudlo Pudlat, artist<br \/>\nKenoayoak Pudlat, politician<br \/>\nLudy Pudluk, politician<br \/>\nUriash Puqiqnak, politician, carver<br \/>\nAndrew Qappik, graphic artist<br \/>\nLucy Qinnuayuak, graphic artist and printmaker<br \/>\nEmilino Qirngnuq, politician<br \/>\nRachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, writer<br \/>\nPaul Quassa, politician<br \/>\nTumasi Quissa, singer-songwriter, carver<br \/>\nGeorge Qulaut, politician<br \/>\nTaamusi Qumaq, helped preserve Inuit language and traditional culture, wrote an Inuktitut dictionary and an encyclopedia on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit<br \/>\nMadeleine Redfern, politician<br \/>\nKeith Russell, politician<br \/>\nTodd Russell, politician<br \/>\nPitaloosie Saila, artist<br \/>\nPauta Saila, artist<br \/>\nTom Sammurtok, politician<br \/>\nAlexander Sammurtok, politician<br \/>\nJoe Savikataaq, politician<br \/>\nEric Schweig, actor<br \/>\nElisapee Sheutiapik, politician<br \/>\nJohn Shiwak, sniper in the First World War<br \/>\nIsaac Shooyook, politician<br \/>\nNick Sikkuark, artist<br \/>\nDavid Simailak, politician<br \/>\nMary Simon, politician, diplomat<br \/>\nVince Steen, politician<br \/>\nDonald Suluk, religious figure<br \/>\nThomas Suluk, politician<br \/>\nTanya Tagaq, throat singer, artist<br \/>\nJoe Talirunili, printmaker and sculptor<br \/>\nLouis Tapardjuk, politician<br \/>\nPeter Taptuna, politician, Premier of Nunavut<br \/>\nNingeokuluk Teevee, writer and artist<br \/>\nManitok Thompson, politician<br \/>\nWillie Thrasher, musician<br \/>\nIrene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, artist<br \/>\nJohn Tiktak, sculptor<br \/>\nKane Tologanak, politician<br \/>\nTookoolito, guide, wife of Ebierbing<br \/>\nSimon Tookoome, artist<br \/>\nJordin Tootoo, hockey player<br \/>\nHunter Tootoo, politician<br \/>\nVictor Tungilik, religious figure, both a Christian and a traditional angakkuq (shaman)<br \/>\nLucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, artist<br \/>\nMarion Tuu'luq, artist<br \/>\nJeannie Ugyuk, politician<br \/>\nAbraham Ulrikab, human zoo exhibit<br \/>\nUmik, angakkuq (shaman)<br \/>\nNatar Ungalaaq, actor, filmmaker, and sculptor<br \/>\nUvavnuk, angakkuq (shaman), oral poet<br \/>\nSheila Watt-Cloutier, politician, activist<br \/>\nCharlie Watt, politician<br \/>\nRebekah Williams, politician<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>M\u00e9tis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Howard Adams, M\u00e9tis activist, author, and leader<br \/>\nPierre Bottineau, Minnesota frontiersman, surveyor, diplomat, and translator<br \/>\nMichel \"Mitch\" Bouyer, M\u00e9tis of French Canadian and Sioux ancestry, interpreter and guide in the Old West, lead scout with the US Seventh Cavalry, died along with Lt.Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876<br \/>\nJames P. Brady, M\u00e9tis politician and activist<br \/>\nHarry Daniels, M\u00e9tis politician and activist<br \/>\nPierre Delorme, M\u00e9tis politician and activist<br \/>\nGabriel Dumont, M\u00e9tis military leader during the North-West Rebellion<br \/>\nCuthbert Grant, M\u00e9tis political and military leader<br \/>\nJohn Norquay, M\u00e9tis politician, Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887<br \/>\nMalcolm Norris, M\u00e9tis politician and activist<br \/>\nLouis Riel, M\u00e9tis leader who led the Red River Rebellion in 1869 and 1870, the provisional government of Rupert's Land, Manitoba's entry into Confederation in 1870; later led the North-West Rebellion in 1885<br \/>\nGeorge R. D. Goulet, 2007 (shown carrying the M\u00e9tis flag) and leading the Grand Entry at the Red River West celebration<br \/>\nSandra Birdsell, daughter of a M\u00e9tis man and a Russian Mennonite woman, based her award-winning novel Children of the Day in part on her parents' experiences in Manitoba in the 1920s to 1950s<br \/>\nRobert Boyer (1948\u20132004), M\u00e9tis Cree artist, best known for his politically charged \"Blanket Statements\" series of paintings<br \/>\nAlec Butler<br \/>\nMaria Campbell, M\u00e9tis writer and filmmaker<br \/>\nCherie Dimaline, writer<br \/>\nGeorge R. D. Goulet, bestselling M\u00e9tis author; books include The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Metis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, and The M\u00e9tis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony<br \/>\nDylan Miner, M\u00e9tis printmaker, writer, and conceptual artist<br \/>\nRick Rivet (born 1949), painter<br \/>\nGregory Scofield, writer, poet, activist, and educator<br \/>\nKatherena Vermette, writer<br \/>\nChristine Welsh, documentary filmmaker and academic<br \/>\nRod Bruinooge, M\u00e9tis, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South (Conservative Party of Canada), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs &amp; Northern Development, Federal Interlocutor for M\u00e9tis and Non-Status Indians from 2005 until the fall of 2008<br \/>\nTodd Ducharme, M\u00e9tis, appointed in 2004 as a judge of the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice<br \/>\nShelly Glover, M\u00e9tis, Member of Parliament for Saint-Boniface (Conservative Party of Canada), Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages<br \/>\nCarole James, former British Columbia New Democratic Party leader, of partial M\u00e9tis ancestry<br \/>\nColleen Klein, wife of former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, of M\u00e9tis ancestry<br \/>\nDerrick O'Keefe, Rabble.ca editor, Canadian anti-war movement leader of partial M\u00e9tis ancestry and has M\u00e9tis membership<br \/>\nThelma J. Chalifoux, Metis, community activist, First Aboriginal woman appointed to the Senate of Canada, established Michif Cultural and Resource Institute<br \/>\nArron Asham, professional ice hockey player<br \/>\nSharon Bruneau, a Canadian champion bodybuilder<br \/>\nRen\u00e9 Bourque, NHL hockey player from Lac La Biche, Alberta, a M\u00e9tis<br \/>\nSharon Bruneau, bodybuilder and fitness model<br \/>\nTony Gingras, professional ice hockey player for the Winnipeg Victorias<br \/>\nTravis Hamonic, professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames<br \/>\nDwight King, professional ice hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings<br \/>\nVic Mercredi, Atlanta Flames first round draft pick<br \/>\nKevin O'Toole, 1996 North American light heavyweight bodybuilding champion<br \/>\nWade Redden, NHL defenceman, of M\u00e9tis ancestry<br \/>\nSheldon Souray, NHL defenceman, of M\u00e9tis ancestry<br \/>\nDouglas Cardinal, architect, of M\u00e9tis and Blackfoot ancestry<br \/>\nTantoo Cardinal, actress, of M\u00e9tis and Cree ancestry<br \/>\nJon Gallant, bassist for the Canadian band Billy Talent<br \/>\nRoseanne Supernault, actress, M\u00e9tis of Cree descent<br \/>\nAndrea Menard, actress, playwright, and singer, M\u00e9tis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafbfa3035330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Prior to 1970, only a sprinkling of people from African countries settled in Canada, mainly from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. Many African countries attained independence about that time: Ghana (1959), Nigeria (1960), Uganda (1962), Kenya (1963), and Zambia and Tanzania (1964). Many newcomers began to settle in Canada in the 1960s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Many Africans speak an African language in their home settings, though, in general, Africans who come to Canada have a good working knowledge of either English or French.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 1,067,930 Canadians of African origins in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous African Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ali Ngon Gerba, soccer player<br \/>\nAlysha Brilla, thrice Juno-nominated Indo-Tanzanian-Canadian musician<br \/>\nDaniel Igali, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling<br \/>\nDelphine Erhabor, business consultant<br \/>\nErica Shukrani Luttrell, actress<br \/>\nFarah Nasser, journalist<br \/>\nFran\u00e7oise Abanda, professional tennis player<br \/>\nIsrael Idonije, NFL player for the Chicago Bears<br \/>\nJackie Agyemang Appiah, Canadian-born Ghanaian actress<br \/>\nJarome Iginla, NHL hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings<br \/>\nLaryea Adjetey, soccer player who played in the USL A-League and the Canadian Professional Soccer League<br \/>\nMpho Koaho, actor<br \/>\nNaheed Kurban Nenshi, politician, 36th mayor of Calgary, Alberta<br \/>\nNdzemdzela Langwa, football player<br \/>\nOhenewa Akuffo, Olympic freestyle wrestler for Canada<br \/>\nOlu Famutimi, professional basketball player<br \/>\nPierre Kwenders, musician<br \/>\nRizwan Manji, actor<br \/>\nRobert Adetuyi, screenwriter and film director<br \/>\nSamuel Oghale Oboh, the first person of African descent to be president of the 110-year-old Royal Architectural Institute of Canada<br \/>\nStella Umeh, gymnast<br \/>\nTaslim Samji, artist and writer<br \/>\nWondaGurl, hip-hop producer<br \/>\nYasmin Ratansi, politician<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba3535d35c\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The Canadian Immigration Act of 1952 resulted in an increased number of skilled and educated Argentine immigrants to Canada. The majority were fleeing the economic decline and political turmoil following the Revoluci\u00f3n Libertadora. An average of 400 Argentines immigrated to Canada annually from 1964 to 1972. Beginning in 1973, increased instability, terrorism and high inflation in Argentina created another wave of immigration to Canada. The rate of immigration increased to more than 1000 persons annually during the mid-1970s. The influx lasted until 1983, coinciding with the progress of Argentine democracy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The highest concentrations of Argentine Canadians are in Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to 2016 Census there are 20,680 people of Argentinian descent in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Encyclopedia of Canada\u2019s Peoples, Wikipedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Argentinian Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Albert Aguayo \u2013 neurologist<br \/>\nManuel \"Manny\" Aparicio \u2013 soccer player<br \/>\nDan Biocchi \u2013 politician<br \/>\nMario Bunge \u2013 philosopher and physicist<br \/>\nVer\u00f3nica Dahl \u2013 computer scientist<br \/>\nDaniel Castillo Durante \u2013 author<br \/>\nMario Giovinetto \u2013 glaciologist, climatologist, and geographer<br \/>\nManny G\u00f3mez \u2013 soccer player<br \/>\nSergio Marchi \u2013 politician<br \/>\nHector Leonardo Marinaro \u2013 soccer player and coach<br \/>\nEstanislao Oziewicz \u2013 journalist<br \/>\nVer\u00f3nica Mar\u00eda Ravenna \u2013 luger<br \/>\nPablo Rodr\u00edguez \u2013 politician<br \/>\nGuillermo Verdecchia \u2013 theatre artist<br \/>\nBarney Williams \u2013 rower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba293s5312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The Caribbean is an economically and culturally diverse group of 27 countries and territories including Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Canadians of Caribbean origin belong to one of the largest non-European ethnic groups in Canada. A group of 556 Jamaicans arrived in Canada in 1796 after an unsuccessful British attempt to enslave them in Jamaica. Between 1800 and 1920, a small number of Jamaicans and Barbadians immigrated as labourers to work in the Cape Breton and Sydney mines, but from 1920 until the early 1960s, immigration was virtually nonexistent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 749,155 Canadians of Caribbean origins in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Caribbean Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Adonis Stevenson, professional boxer, current WBC Light Heavyweight Champion<br \/>\nAlison Sealy-Smith, actress<br \/>\nAmanda Marshall, pop singer<br \/>\nAndre Alexis, author<br \/>\nAndre De Grasse, sprinter<br \/>\nAndrew Wiggins, professional basketball player<br \/>\nAngella Taylor-Issajenko, coach and former sprinter<br \/>\nAnne Cools, politician, member of the Canadian Senate<br \/>\nAnson Carter, ice hockey player<br \/>\nAnthony Duclair, professional hockey player<br \/>\nAnthony Kavanagh, comedian<br \/>\nAntoine Craan, professional soccer player<br \/>\nAth\u00e9sia, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nAtlee Mahorn, sprinter<br \/>\nAustin Clarke, novelist<br \/>\nAustin Codrington, cricketer<br \/>\nBad News Brown, musician<br \/>\nBas Balkissoon, Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament<br \/>\nBen Johnson, sprinter<br \/>\nBenz Antoine, actor<br \/>\nBermane Stiverne, professional boxer<br \/>\nBromley Lloyd Armstrong, black Canadian civil rights leader<br \/>\nBruny Surin, Olympian gold medal winning sprinter<br \/>\nCalvin Ruck, politician<br \/>\nCarl Valentine, soccer player and coach<br \/>\nCarmen Brouard, pianist, composer and music educator<br \/>\nCeta Ramkhalawansingh, Toronto city councillor<br \/>\nCharmaine Crooks, athlete, five-time Olympian and Olympic silver medalist<br \/>\nChris Johnson, boxer<br \/>\nChris Spence, educator, author, and former Canadian football player<br \/>\nCindy Breakspeare, Canadian-Jamaican jazz musician and former model<br \/>\nClaire Prieto, filmmaker and producer<br \/>\nClaude Patrick, mixed martial artist<br \/>\nClaude Vilgrain, professional hockey player<br \/>\nClement Virgo, film and television writer, producer, and director<br \/>\nCurtis Hibbert, athlete and stuntman<br \/>\nDaniel Faraldo, known professionally as Dan-e-o, hip-hop artist and actor<br \/>\nDany Laferri\u00e8re, novelist<br \/>\nDarnell Nurse, professional hockey player, currently playing in the NHL for the Edmonton Oilers<br \/>\nDavid Loiseau, mixed martial arts fighter, first Haitian-Canadian to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship<br \/>\nDayana Cadeau, Haitian-born Canadian American professional bodybuilder<br \/>\nDesiree Scott, soccer midfielder<br \/>\nDierry Jean, professional boxer<br \/>\nDirector X, music video director<br \/>\nDivine Brown, Juno Award-winning R&amp;B and soul singer and theatre performer<br \/>\nDL Incognito, rapper<br \/>\nDominique Anglade, MNA for Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne<br \/>\nDonovan Bailey, sprinter<br \/>\nDonovan Ruddock, boxer<br \/>\nDwight Drummond, television journalist<br \/>\nDylan Ennis, professional basketball player<br \/>\n\u00c9douard Woolley, tenor, actor, composer, and music educator<br \/>\nEdrick Flor\u00e9al, Olympic long and triple jumper<br \/>\nElkana Mayard, professional soccer player<br \/>\n\u00c9mile Ollivier, writer<br \/>\nEmmanuel Dubourg, MP for Bourassa, former MNA of Viau in Montreal<br \/>\nFabienne Colas, actress, director and producer, and head of the Fabienne Colas Foundation<br \/>\nFarley Flex, television personality<br \/>\nFelicia Lily \"Fefe\" Dobson, singer and songwriter<br \/>\nF\u00e9lix Brillant, professional soccer player<br \/>\nFerguson Jenkins, Jr., professional baseball player<br \/>\nFirmin Monestime, mayor of Mattawa, Ontario, first elected black mayor in Canada<br \/>\nFrances-Anne Solomon, filmmaker and producer for Leda Serene Films and CaribbeanTales<br \/>\nFrancis Bouillon, defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens<br \/>\nFranklyn Dennis, cricketer<br \/>\nFrantz Benjamin, Montreal city councillor for Saint-Michel<br \/>\nFredrick Brathwaite, ice hockey player and coach<br \/>\nG. Raymond Chang, businessman, philanthropist, and the third chancellor of Ryerson University<br \/>\nGary Goodridge, kick boxer and mixed martial artist<br \/>\nGary Klang, poet and novelist<br \/>\nGeorges Anglade, geographer and writer<br \/>\nGeorges Laraque, former professional hockey player<br \/>\nGerald Eaton, R&amp;B singer-songwriter and music producer<br \/>\nG\u00e9rard \u00c9tienne, writer<br \/>\nGilles Colon, former professional Canadian Football League player<br \/>\nGlenn Lewis, R&amp;B and neo soul singer<br \/>\nGlenn Lewis, neo soul singer-songwriter<br \/>\nGlenroy Gilbert, sprinter<br \/>\nGloria Reuben, producer, singer, and actress<br \/>\nGuerdy J. Pr\u00e9val, painter<br \/>\nHedy Fry, Liberal Member of Parliament<br \/>\nHewitt Bernard, lawyer, militia officer, editor, and civil servant<br \/>\nIan Hanomansing, CBC journalist<br \/>\nImposs, rapper<br \/>\nIsabelle Racicot, television and radio host<br \/>\nIshan Morris, actor and hip-hop\/pop\/R&amp;B recording artist\/singer<br \/>\nJamaal Magloire, former professional basketball player in the NBA<br \/>\nJames Douglas, first governor of the Colony of British Columbia<br \/>\nJason D. Harrow, better known by his stage name Kardinal Offishal, rapper, record producer, and record executive<br \/>\nJean Alfred, former MNA for Hull<br \/>\nJean Pascal, professional boxer<br \/>\nJean-Ernest Pierre, owner of CJWI radio station in Montreal, Quebec<br \/>\nJean-Luc Grand-Pierre, professional hockey player<br \/>\nJems Geffrard, professional soccer player<br \/>\nJennifer Abel, Olympic swimmer<br \/>\nJepht\u00e9 Bastien, film director<br \/>\nJillian Richardson, former athlete<br \/>\nJimmy-Shammar Sanon, professional soccer player<br \/>\nJoachim Alcine, professional boxer<br \/>\nJoe Fortes, lifeguard<br \/>\nJoe Fortes, prominent figure in the early history of Vancouver<br \/>\nJoel Ward, ice hockey player<br \/>\nJonathan C. Jones, jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing<br \/>\nJonathan Emile, hip-hop recording artist<br \/>\nJoshua Ho-Sang, professional ice hockey player<br \/>\nJosu\u00e9 Mayard, professional soccer player<br \/>\nJulian de Guzman, soccer player<br \/>\nJully Black (born Jullyann Inderia Gordon), R&amp;B singer-songwriter, and actress<br \/>\nKamala Jean Gopie, political activist<br \/>\nKarlene Haughton, athlete<br \/>\nKaytranada, electronic musician, producer, and DJ<br \/>\nKeisha Chant\u00e9, R&amp;B and pop singer<br \/>\nKevin Weekes, ice hockey player<br \/>\nk-os, hip-hop musician<br \/>\nKreesha Turner, recording artist and songwriter<br \/>\nLascelles Brown, bobsledder<br \/>\nLennox Farrell, political activist<br \/>\nLennox Lewis, professional boxer<br \/>\nLeonel Jules, painter<br \/>\nLillian Allen, dub poet, reggae musician, writer, and Juno award winner<br \/>\nLincoln MacCauley Alexander, lawyer who became the first black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, the first black federal Cabinet Minister (serving as federal Minister of Labour), the first black chair of the Worker's Compensation Board, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991<br \/>\nLoudia Laarman, sprinter<br \/>\nLuck Mervil, Quebec-based rock singer<br \/>\nMakeda Silvera, novelist and short story writer<br \/>\nMarc Antoine, singer<br \/>\nMarc Calixte, professional soccer player<br \/>\nMarcia Young, broadcast journalist and host of World Report<br \/>\nMargarett Best, politician<br \/>\nMarie-C\u00e9lie Agnant, author and poet<br \/>\nMarie-Denise Douyon, painter, graphic artist<br \/>\nMarie-Jos\u00e9e Lord, opera soprano<br \/>\nMarita Payne, athlete<br \/>\nMark Anthony Graham, Canadian Olympic athlete and soldier who died while participating in Operation Medusa during the NATO mission in Afghanistan<br \/>\nMark Boswell, high jumper<br \/>\nMark Saunders, Toronto police chief<br \/>\nMary Anne Chambers, politician<br \/>\nMatthew Jehu Samuels, professionally known as Boi-1da, record producer<br \/>\nMaxime Boisclair, professional Canadian hockey player<br \/>\nMaxime Fortunus, professional ice hockey player<br \/>\nM\u00e9lissa Laveaux, musician<br \/>\nMichael Lee-Chin, business magnate, investor, and philanthropist<br \/>\nMichael Thompson, politician<br \/>\nMicha\u00eblle Jean, journalist and Canada's first black Governor General<br \/>\nMichie Mee, rapper and actress<br \/>\nMolly Killingbeck, athlete<br \/>\nMuzion, rap group<br \/>\nNadine Magloire, writer<br \/>\nNalo Hopkinson, writer and editor<br \/>\nNeil Bissoondath, novelist, former Vision TV host<br \/>\nNicholas Ifill, cricketer<br \/>\nNicole Lyn, television actress<br \/>\nObed C\u00e9toute, professional Canadian Football League player<br \/>\nOliver Jones, jazz pianist, organist, composer, and arranger<br \/>\nOlivier Occ\u00e9an, professional soccer player<br \/>\nOrdena Stephens, actress<br \/>\nOrim M. Meikle, senior pastor and chairman of Rhema Canada<br \/>\nOrville Lloyd Douglas, essayist, poet, and writer<br \/>\nOsvaldo Jeanty, professional basketball player<br \/>\nPanou, actor<br \/>\nPartyNextDoor, rapper, producer, and songwriter<br \/>\nPatrice Bernier, professional soccer player<br \/>\nPatrick Husbands, jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing<br \/>\nPaul Arcelin, writer<br \/>\nPeter Williams, actor<br \/>\nPhilip Akin, actor<br \/>\nPierre Browne, sprinter<br \/>\nPierre Gage, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nPierre-Rudolph Mayard, professional soccer player<br \/>\nQuddus, MTV veejay<br \/>\nRabindranath Maharaj, novelist<br \/>\nRalph Gilles, automobile designer (Chrysler 300)<br \/>\nRamabai Espinet, author<br \/>\nRandall Thorne, better known by his pseudonym RT!, filmmaker<br \/>\nRandy Samuel, soccer player who represented Canada at the 1986 FIFA World Cup<br \/>\nRay Emery, ice hockey player<br \/>\nRaymond Fontaine, professional Canadian Football League player<br \/>\nR\u00e9gine Chassagne, musician with group Arcade Fire<br \/>\nRichard Fung, filmmaker, creator<br \/>\nRob Rainford, chef, author of Rob Rainford's Born to Grill<br \/>\nRobert Esmie, sprinter and member of the 1996 Summer Olympics, gold medalist<br \/>\nRoger Cross, actor<br \/>\nRoi Heenok, rapper<br \/>\nRonald Hilaire, former CFL defensive lineman, current head coach of McGill Redmen<br \/>\nRonald Selmour, actor, renaissance man<br \/>\nRosemary Brown, politician<br \/>\nRyan Hogan, public speaker and hockey player<br \/>\nRyan Thelwell, footballer<br \/>\nSam Gellard, former hockey player in the World Hockey Association (WHA)<br \/>\nSamantha Majendie-Albert, Canadian-born equestrian who represents Jamaica in international competition<br \/>\nSamuel Dalembert, professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks<br \/>\nSaskia Garel, musician and actress<br \/>\nSchiller Hyppolite, professional boxer<br \/>\nShani Mootoo, author<br \/>\nShelley-Ann Brown, bobsledder<br \/>\nSimeon Jackson, professional footballer<br \/>\nSimon Marcus, Muay Thai kickboxer<br \/>\nStacey McKenzie, fashion model, runway coach, and most recently a model coach and judge on the Canadian reality television show Canada's Next Top Model<br \/>\nStanley George Sinclair Grizzle, Canadian citizenship judge, soldier, political candidate, and civil rights and labour union activist<br \/>\nStephen Ames, professional golfer, currently part of the PGA Tour<br \/>\nStewart Campbell, lawyer and politician<br \/>\nSusan Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada<br \/>\nTony Sharpe, sprinter<br \/>\nTonya Lee Williams, actress<br \/>\nTrevor W. Payne, musician<br \/>\nTrey Anthony, award-winning playwright, actor, and producer<br \/>\nTristan Thompson, professional basketball player<br \/>\nUlrick Ch\u00e9rubin, former mayor of Amos, Quebec<br \/>\nVivian Barbot, former MP for Papineau in Montreal<br \/>\nWyn Belotte, professional soccer player<br \/>\nYves Jabouin, mixed martial arts fighter<br \/>\nYvon Krev\u00e9, hip-hop artist<br \/>\nYvonne Saunders, athlete<br \/>\nZanana Lorraine Akande, politician<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba30235330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>German Canadians \u2014 that is, Canadians who report their ethnic origin as solely or partly from Germany or of German ancestry \u2014 are one of Canada's largest ethnic categories of European origin. Prior to the British Conquest, circa 1760, Germans came to New France primarily in the service of the French military forces. Swiss guards were members of the first French expedition of 1604 to launch a colony in Acadia. Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s first recorded settler from Germany is Hans Bernhard from Erfurt, who bought land on \u00cele d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans in 1664. By 1760, an estimated 200 German families could be identified along the St Lawrence River \u2014 mainly families of soldiers, seamen, artisans, and army doctors.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>British North America, and then Canada, would receive six waves of immigration throughout their history, the most recent of which consisted of displaced people at the end of the Second World War.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 3,322,405 Canadians of German ancestry in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous German Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosalie Abella, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada<br \/>\nRoger Avary, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter<br \/>\nRandy Bachman, rock musician<br \/>\nJackie Barrett, retired Special Olympics powerlifter<br \/>\nBobby Bauer, hockey player<br \/>\nWilliam Berczy (William Moll-Berczy), cofounder of the city of York, now Toronto, in 1794<br \/>\nJustin Bieber, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nWilliam E. Blatz, psychologist<br \/>\nPeter Boehm, Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs<br \/>\nMatt Brouwer, Christian\/gospel musician<br \/>\nSarah Chalke, actress<br \/>\nJohn Diefenbaker, Prime Minister<br \/>\nGary Doer, current Ambassador to the United States and former Premier of Manitoba<br \/>\nWoody Dumart, hockey player<br \/>\nFeist, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nDerek Fildebrandt, Alberta Wildrose politician<br \/>\nPaul Gross, actor, director, and producer<br \/>\nDany Heatley, hockey player<br \/>\nGerhard Herzberg, scientist<br \/>\nJohn Kay, musician<br \/>\nCraig Kielburger, humanitarian<br \/>\nTaylor Kitsch, actor<br \/>\nCindy Klassen, sportswoman<br \/>\nRalph Klein, former Progressive Conservative Premier of Alberta<br \/>\nCornelius Krieghoff, artist<br \/>\nChad Kroeger, frontman of Nickelback<br \/>\nk.d. lang, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nSilken Laumann, sportswoman<br \/>\nJack Layton, former leader of the official opposition<br \/>\nAlmuth L\u00fctkenhaus, sculptor<br \/>\nHowie Morenz, hockey player<br \/>\nRob Niedermayer, hockey player<br \/>\nScott Niedermayer, hockey player<br \/>\nValerie Poxleitner (known as Lights), singer-songwriter<br \/>\nPeter Rindisbacher, artist<br \/>\nMilt Schmidt, hockey player<br \/>\nEdward Schreyer, former Governor General and former Premier of Manitoba<br \/>\nEarl Seibert, hockey player<br \/>\nArnold Theodor Spohr, artistic director, ballet dancer<br \/>\nFrank Stronach, founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company<br \/>\nMiriam Toews, Governor General's Award-winning writer<br \/>\nVic Toews, politician<br \/>\nJohn Vernon, actor<br \/>\nAugustus Stephen Vogt, composer and author<br \/>\nEberhard Zeidler, architect<br \/>\nJoel Thomas Zimmerman, music producer<br \/>\nKarl Friesen, hockey player<br \/>\nHarold Kreis, hockey player and coach<br \/>\nRoy Roedger, hockey player<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba3533535c\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Greek immigration to Canada began early in the 19th century. Greeks from the islands (e.g., Crete, Syros, and Skopelos) and from the Peloponnesus, especially the poor villages of the provinces of Arcadia and Laconia, settled in Montr\u00e9al as early as 1843. However, in 1871 only 39 persons of Greek origin were known to be living in Canada. Greek immigration, sporadic prior to 1900, increased considerably in the early 20th century as a result of poverty, wars, and political upheavals at home.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 271,410 Canadians of Greek origin in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Greek Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alex Anthopoulos, Vice President of Baseball Operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers, former Blue Jays General Manager<br \/>\nAlex Carter, actor<br \/>\nAlex Karzis, actor, singer, and musician<br \/>\nAlexandre Despatie, diver, Olympic silver medalist (Greek grandmother)<br \/>\nAnastasios Venetsanopoulos, Vice President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson University<br \/>\nAndr\u00e9 Gerolymatos, Hellenic studies professor<br \/>\nAndreas Apostolopoulos, real estate<br \/>\nAndreas Mandelis, expert on photonics, member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, awarded the 2014 Killam Prize<br \/>\nAngelo Tsarouchas, comedian\/actor, It's All Greek to Me comedy show<br \/>\nAntonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star columnist<br \/>\nArgiris Karras, actor<br \/>\nAriana Chris, mezzo-soprano<br \/>\nAthanasios Asimakopulos, Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics, McGill University<br \/>\nAthena Karkanis, actress, The Border, Lost Girl, Low Winter Sun, The Lottery<br \/>\nAthena King, newscaster on Naked News<br \/>\nBilly Mavreas, cartoonist<br \/>\nBret Hart, former pro wrestler, multiple World Champion in the WWF and WCW, of Greek ancestry; mother is half Greek<br \/>\nChris Diamantopoulos, actor<br \/>\nChris Giannou, war surgeon<br \/>\nChris Kibermanis, Liberal candidate<br \/>\nChris Kontos, former National Hockey League (NHL) player<br \/>\nChristine Cushing, celebrity chef<br \/>\nChristos Sirros, former Quebec Liberal MNA and provincial cabinet minister<br \/>\nConstantine George Mitges, former PC MP, first Greek elected federally<br \/>\nCostas Menegakis, Former Conservative Party of Canada MP for Richmond Hill<br \/>\nCristine Prosperi, actress<br \/>\nDaniel Samonas, actor<br \/>\nDave Nonis, former Canadian ice hockey defenceman, former general manager and executive of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs<br \/>\nDave Sapunjis, CFL all-star receiver, Calgary Stampeders<br \/>\nDavid Fronimadis, soccer player<br \/>\nDavid N. Stamos, philosophy professor<br \/>\nDiane Stratas, former Progressive Conservative MP for Scarborough Centre, 1979 to 1980<br \/>\nDimitri Kitsikis, Professor Emeritus of History, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada<br \/>\nDimitri Soudas, Former Communications Director to the Prime Minister of Canada<br \/>\nDini Dimakos, comedian\/actor, Video on Trial, Love Court<br \/>\nDominic Filiou, strongman<br \/>\nDVBBS, electronic duo, most famous for their joint international hit with Borgeous, Tsunami<br \/>\nEleni Bakopanos, former Liberal MP for Saint-Denis<br \/>\nEleonora Dimakos, model, actress, journalist, and makeup artist<br \/>\nElias Koteas, actor, Crash<br \/>\nEmmanuella Lambropoulos, Liberal MP for Saint Laurent<br \/>\nErnie Afaganis, retired CBC-TV Sports and Olympics anchor<br \/>\nErnie Cholakis, player<br \/>\nFotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, physicist<br \/>\nGeorge Athans, water-skier<br \/>\nGeorge Kottaras, Major League player<br \/>\nGeorge Lagogianes, television personality, currently reporter and anchor for CP24 and host of Auto Shop<br \/>\nGeorge Samis, former Ontario New Democratic Party MPP, first Greek elected to a Canadian legislature<br \/>\nGeorge Sapounidis, musician, troubadour, statistician, and Sinophile; subject of documentary, Chairman George<br \/>\nGeorge Stroumboulopoulos, host of CBC Newsworld's The Hour, former MuchMusic VJ<br \/>\nGeorge Trakas, environmental sculptor<br \/>\nGerry Sklavounos, Liberal Member of the Qu\u00e9bec National Assembly<br \/>\nHannah Georgas, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nHercules Kyvelos, boxer<br \/>\nIoanna Roumeliotis, CBC Newsworld reporter<br \/>\nIo\u00e1nnis Fok\u00e1s Juan de Fuca, first Greek-Canadian (1592)<br \/>\nJack Agrios, former director and executive member of the Edmonton Eskimos<br \/>\nJim Karygiannis, Toronto City Councillor<br \/>\nJohn Cannis, former Liberal MP for Scarborough Centre, 1993 to 2011<br \/>\nJohn Colicos, actor<br \/>\nJohn Ioannou, actor<br \/>\nJohn Kapelos, actor<br \/>\nJohn Limniatis, soccer player<br \/>\nJohn Mylopoulos, computer scientist<br \/>\nJustice Andromache Karakatsanis, Supreme Court of Canada, 2011 to present<br \/>\nJustice David Stratas, Federal Court of Appeal, 2009 to present<br \/>\nKenny Stamatopolous, soccer player, former Toronto FC and Kalamata<br \/>\nKevin Pangos, playmaker, Gonzaga University alumni, currently plays in Europe<br \/>\nKO, musician<br \/>\nLeo Housakos, Conservative senator<br \/>\nLou Schizas, equities analyst<br \/>\nMarie Avgeropoulos, actress, Tracers, Supernatural, Fringe<br \/>\nMarie Bountrogianni, former Liberal MPP for Hamilton Mountain<br \/>\nMary Fragedakis, Toronto City Councillor for Ward 29, Toronto-Danforth<br \/>\nMaurine Karagianis, New Democratic Party of British Columbia MLA, former Esquimalt, municipal councillor, British Columbia<br \/>\nMike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), creator of BlackBerry<br \/>\nNatasha Negovanlis, actress and web host<br \/>\nNia Vardalos, actress, screenwriter, My Big Fat Greek Wedding<br \/>\nNicholas Salamis, priest<br \/>\nNick Bontis, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University 3M National Teaching Fellow<br \/>\nNick Kypreos, former NHL player, Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers<br \/>\nNick Papadakis, soccer player<br \/>\nNicolas Macrozonaris, 100m sprinter<br \/>\nNiki Ashton, NDP Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Churchill, Manitoba<br \/>\nNikki Ponte, singer<br \/>\nNikolaos Oikonomides, Byzantine historian<br \/>\nPan Bouyoucas, finalist for the Governor General\u2019s Literary Award, 2001<br \/>\nPana Merchant, Liberal senator from Saskatchewan<br \/>\nPaul Soulikias, artist, painter<br \/>\nPeter Bexis, musician<br \/>\nPeter Biyiasas, chess grandmaster<br \/>\nPeter Fragiskatos, Liberal MP for London North Centre<br \/>\nPeter Loubardias, sportscaster<br \/>\nPeter Sarantopoulos, soccer player<br \/>\nPhil X (born Phil Xenidis), prolific session guitarist<br \/>\nPhilippe Gigant\u00e8s, former Liberal senator<br \/>\nSam Kolias, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Boardwalk REIT<br \/>\nSid Krofft, puppeteer<br \/>\nSofia Shinas, singer, actress, The Crow<br \/>\nSophia Aggelonitis, former Liberal MPP for Hamilton Mountain<br \/>\nStaff Barootes, former Conservative senator<br \/>\nStathis Kappos, soccer player<br \/>\nStephano Barberis<br \/>\nSteve Kouleas, sports anchor and reporter<br \/>\nTeresa Stratas (born 1938), soprano OC, retired Canadian operatic soprano known for her award-winning recording of Alban Berg's Lulu, born in Toronto, Ontario<br \/>\nTess Fragoulis, writer and educator<br \/>\nThalia Assuras, anchor and reporter<br \/>\nTheo Zagar, soccer player<br \/>\nTony Asimakopoulos, documentary film director<br \/>\nTony Clement, Member of Parliament for Muskoka and president of the Treasury Board<br \/>\nTracy Spiridakos, actress, Being Human, Revolution<br \/>\nTrish Stratus (aka Patricia Anne Stratigias), former professional wrestler<br \/>\nVickie Panos, player, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944<br \/>\nWatts, music producer, born Austin Garrick<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba29435312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Iranians are a relatively new community in Canada. As late as the Second World War there were only about a dozen Iranians in the country. Immigration remained very low through the 1950s and 60s. After the 1979 Iranian revolution that overthrew the monarchy and brought the Islamic government to power, immigration figures rose significantly. In the 1980s and during most of the 1990s, several thousand Iranians came to Canada each year, and the trend has continued to date.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 210,405 Canadians of Iranian origin in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Iranian Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ali Ehsassi, Federal Liberal MP for Willowdale, lawyer<br \/>\nAli Khademhosseini, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology<br \/>\nAmir Khadir, Qu\u00e9bec solidaire MNA for Mercier, microbiologist<br \/>\nBehzad Kazzazy, art director<br \/>\nFariborz Lachini, music composer<br \/>\nFariborz Sahba, architect<br \/>\nFarid Haerinejad, former CBC producer, documentary maker, and current \u0650\u0650Editor in Chief of Radio Zamaneh<br \/>\nGhazal Omid, nonfiction political writer, nonfiction children's book writer, speaker, NGO executive<br \/>\nGhermezian family, billionaire shopping mall developers<br \/>\nHamid Reza Habibi, University of Calgary, cardiologist<br \/>\nHassan Khosrowshahi, founder of Future Shop<br \/>\nHossein Amanat, architect, urban designer<br \/>\nJian Ghomeshi, member of Moxy Fr\u00fcvous, former host of Q on CBC Radio 1<br \/>\nJian Ghomeshi, CBC broadcaster, writer, producer, and musician<br \/>\nKarim Hakimi, founder of Hakim Optical<br \/>\nKaveh Farrokh, historian<br \/>\nKhashayar Farzam, powerlifter, medical student, former track and field athlete &amp; co-founder of Prosmetica<br \/>\nMajid Jowhari, Federal Liberal MP for Richmond Hill, engineer<br \/>\nMarina Nemat, author<br \/>\nMaziar Bahari, journalist<br \/>\nMehdi Sadaghdar, YouTube personality, electrical engineer<br \/>\nMehran Poolad-Darvish, petroleum scientist at University of Calgary<br \/>\nMilad Jalaeian, singer of pop music<br \/>\nNavid Khonsari, video game, film, and graphic novel creator, writer, director, and producer<br \/>\nNazanin Afshin-Jam, Miss Canada 2003, first runner-up of Miss World 2003, actress, singer-songwriter, human rights activist; wife of former Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay<br \/>\nNikahang Kowsar, cartoonist<br \/>\nNima Mazhari, painter, photographer, and husband of ex-Olympic biathlete Myriam B\u00e9dard, convicted and sentenced in June 2007 for stealing paintings from the late painter Ghitta Caiserman<br \/>\nParviz Tanavoli, sculptor and painter<br \/>\nPayam Akhavan, pioneer in international criminal law and leading human rights advocate, McGill University<br \/>\nPeyman Vahabzadeh, author and university professor<br \/>\nRamin Jahanbegloo, philosopher and university professor<br \/>\nRamin Karimloo, West End performer, playing the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the sequel Love Never Dies<br \/>\nRamona Amiri, Miss World Canada 2005, semifinalist of Miss World 2005<br \/>\nReza Aliabadi, (rzlbd), architect, designer<br \/>\nReza Baraheni, novelist, poet, critic, and political activist<br \/>\nReza Moridi, Ontario Liberal MPP for Richmond Hill, physicist, engineer<br \/>\nReza Zadeh, computer scientist at Stanford University<br \/>\nSahar Biniaz, second runner-up of Miss Tourism Queen International 2008, Miss Universe Canada 2012<br \/>\nSamantha Tajik, Miss Universe Canada 2008<br \/>\nSanaz Mazinani, photographer and curator<br \/>\nShahin Assayesh, publisher<br \/>\nShahin Zartosht, model and fashion designer<br \/>\nShahrzad Mojab, Professor of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto<br \/>\nShahrzad Rafati, founder of BroadbandTV Corp<br \/>\nSiamak Hariri, architect<br \/>\nTaghi Aligholizadeh, film producer<br \/>\nTouka Neyestani, cartoonist<br \/>\nZahra Kazemi, photojournalist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba35035330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The first known immigrant from Japan, Manzo Nagano, arrived in British Columbia in 1877. By 1914, 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry had settled permanently in Canada. Japanese people arrived in Canada in two major waves. The first generation of immigrants, called Issei, arrived between 1877 and 1928, and the second after 1967.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 121,485 Canadians of Japanese ancestry in Canada. They are mainly Canadian-born citizens.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Japanese Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aki Shimazaki, novelist<br \/>\nAndrew Kishino, voiceover artist, rapper<br \/>\nArt Miki, National Association of Japanese Canadians leader, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nArthur S. Hara, business leader, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nArthur Tsuneo Wakabayashi, public servant, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nAudrey Kobayashi, professor and redress activist<br \/>\nBev Oda, first Japanese-Canadian MP and cabinet minister in Canadian history<br \/>\nBrian McKeever, Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete<br \/>\nBrooke Berry, model<br \/>\nBruce Kuwabara, architect, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nCatalina Yue, actress, singer-songwriter, and recording artist<br \/>\nCatherine Manoukian, violinist<br \/>\nChristine Yoshikawa, classical pianist and recording artist<br \/>\nDavid Akutagawa, martial artist<br \/>\nDavid Suzuki, biologist, environmentalist, host of CBC's The Nature of Things, Companion of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nDavid Tsubouchi, former Ontario MPP and cabinet minister<br \/>\nDenis Akiyama, actor<br \/>\nDevin Setoguchi, NHL first liner<br \/>\nEmily Nishikawa, Olympic cross-country skier<br \/>\nGenzo Kitagawa, community leader, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nGeorge Nozuka, musician<br \/>\nGlenn Michibata, tennis player<br \/>\nHenry H. Wakabayashi, engineer, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nHenry J. Shimizu, one of the first Japanese Canadians to practise medicine in Canada, teacher and researcher at University of Alberta, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nHerb Wakabayashi, ice hockey player<br \/>\nHide Hyodo Shimizu, educator and community organiser, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nHiro Kanagawa, actor<br \/>\nHiromi Goto, author<br \/>\nIrene Ayako Uchida, scientist, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nIssey Nakajima-Farran, Canadian national soccer team player<br \/>\nJamie Storr, ice hockey player<br \/>\nJeff Chiba Stearns, animated filmmaker<br \/>\nJon Kimura Parker, classical pianist and recording artist, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nJon Matsumoto, ice hockey player<br \/>\nJoy Kogawa, novelist and poet, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nJuhn Atsushi Wada, neuroscientist, professor at University of British Columbia, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nJustin Nozuka, singer<br \/>\nKatie Tsuyuki, Olympic snowboarder<br \/>\nKazuo Nakamura, painter<br \/>\nKeegan Messing, figure skater<br \/>\nKen Adachi, author<br \/>\nKenzo Mori, editor of New Canadian<br \/>\nKeri Latimer, musician<br \/>\nKerri Sakamoto, novelist<br \/>\nKim Moritsugu, writer<br \/>\nKimiko Zakreski, Olympic snowboarder<br \/>\nKristy Odamura, softball player<br \/>\nLisa Yamanaka, voice actress for Wanda Li in The Magic School Bus and Yoko in Timothy Goes To School<br \/>\nMamoru Watanabe, physician, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nMaria Ozawa, pornographic actress (Japanese father, Quebecois mother)<br \/>\nMariko Tamaki, writer<br \/>\nMartin Kariya, ice hockey player<br \/>\nMary Ito, journalist<br \/>\nMasajiro Miyazaki, osteopath\/coroner and community activist, Companion of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nMasami Tsuruoka, martial artist, founder of karate in Canada<br \/>\nMel Wakabayashi, ice hockey player<br \/>\nMichelle Sagara West, author<br \/>\nMidi Onodera, filmmaker<br \/>\nMio Adilman, radio and television personality, actor<br \/>\nMiyuki Tanobe, artist<br \/>\nMusicians and performing artists<br \/>\nMutsumi Takahashi, news anchor<br \/>\nNaomi Yamamoto, politician<br \/>\nNathan Hirayama, rugby union player<br \/>\nNina Matsumoto, comics artist<br \/>\nNobu Adilman, television personality, actor<br \/>\nNobu McCarthy, actress<br \/>\nNoriko Kariya, boxer<br \/>\nParis Nakajima-Farran, soccer player<br \/>\nPaul Kariya, NHL star player<br \/>\nPoliticians and government officials<br \/>\nRaymond Moriyama, architect, Companion of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nRaymond Sawada, ice hockey player<br \/>\nRick Shiomi, playwright<br \/>\nRobert Ito, actor<br \/>\nRobert Yasuharu Kadoguchi, community leader, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nRobin McKeever, Olympic cross-country skier<br \/>\nRoger S. Obata, community leader, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nRon Korb, musician, composer<br \/>\nRoy Kiyooka, artist, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nRoy Miki, professor emeritus, Simon Fraser University and poet, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nRuth Ozeki, novelist, filmmaker<br \/>\nS. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist, academic, and U.S. Senator<br \/>\nSanta J. Ono, immunologist, President &amp; Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia, first Japanese-Canadian president of a major research university<br \/>\nSarah Kawahara, figure skater and Emmy Award-winning choreographer<br \/>\nSeisho Kina Kuwabara, Japanese language and flower arrangement teacher, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nSevern Cullis-Suzuki, environmentalist, activist, daughter of David Suzuki<br \/>\nShigetaka Sasaki, judoka, member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame<br \/>\nSteve Kariya, ice hockey player<br \/>\nTakaichi Umezuki, newspaper publisher, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nTakao Tanabe, artist, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nTerry Watada, novelist, poet, playwright, historian<br \/>\nTetsuro Shigematsu, radio host<br \/>\nThomas Kunito Shoyama, economist, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nTim Tamashiro, jazz singer, radio broadcaster and speaker<br \/>\nToyoshi Yoshihara, entrepreneur, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nTsutae Sato, educator, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nVicky Sunohara, Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey<br \/>\nWarren P. Sonoda, filmmaker<br \/>\nYoshio Senda, judoka, former Canadian Olympic judo team coach, first in North America to attain level 9 black belt, Member of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nYuki Tsubota, Olympic freestyle skier<br \/>\nYukiko Kimura, former newscaster<br \/>\nYutetsu Kawamura, community leader, Member of the Order of Canada<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba35h535c\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The first recorded Polish immigrant, Dominik Barcz, arrived in Canada in 1752 when it was still a French colony. He was a fur merchant from Gda\u0144sk who settled in Montreal. He was followed in 1757 by Charles Blaskowicz, a deputy surveyor-general of lands. In 1776, army surgeon August Franz Globensky arrived.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Among the earliest Polish immigrants to Canada were members of the military regiments from Saxony and Switzerland sent overseas to help the British Army in North America. Later they were joined by \u00e9migr\u00e9s from Poland who participated in the November Uprising of 1830 against the Russian occupation of their own homeland.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2016 Census, there are 1,106,585 people of Polish descent in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Polish Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Adam Skorek, professor of electrical and computer engineering<br \/>\nAdam Smoluk, director, screenwriter, and actor<br \/>\nAleksandra Wozniak, professional tennis player<br \/>\nAlex Debogorski, veteran ice road trucker on the television series Ice Road Truckers<br \/>\nAlexandra Szacka, CBC\/Radio-Canada correspondent<br \/>\nAlexandre-\u00c9douard Kierzkowski, former Liberal MP St. Hyacinthe (1867-1870), first MP of Polish Descent<br \/>\nAndrew Charles Mynarski VC, Second World War airman<br \/>\nAndrew Kania, former Liberal Member of Parliament for Brampton West (2008-2011)<br \/>\nAndrzej Busza, poet<br \/>\nAndrzej Rozbicki, conductor<br \/>\nAnna Cyzon, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nAnne Mroczkowski, journalist, news anchor<br \/>\nAntoni Porowski, chef, actor, food and wine expert in the Netflix revival of Queer Eye<br \/>\nAshley Arden Lajczak, first Polish female ballroom dancer in Edmonton (2008-2013)<br \/>\nBasia Bulat, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nBen Kowalewicz, lead singer for Billy Talent<br \/>\nBen Pakulski, professional bodybuilder<br \/>\nBogdan Czaykowski, poet, translator, essayist<br \/>\nBogumil Pacak-Gamalski, poet, essayist, editor-in-chief of Strumien art annual<br \/>\nBonnie Crombie, former Liberal MP, Mississauga-Streetsville (2008-2011), Mayor of Mississauga, Ontario (2014-present)<br \/>\nCaptain G.Q., singer-songwriter<br \/>\nCasimir Gzowski, Acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1896-1897)<br \/>\nCasimir Gzowski, engineer who worked on Welland Canal, New York &amp; Erie Railway (first Commissioner of the Niagara Parks Commission)<br \/>\nChava Rosenfarb, novelist, poet in Yiddish, wife of Henry Morgentaler<br \/>\nChris Korwin-Kuczynski, former Toronto city councillor (1981-2003)<br \/>\nChris Pozniak, soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes<br \/>\nConrad Swan, descended from Polish noble family, Swiecicki, first Canadian appointed to the College of Arms in London<br \/>\nDan Bryk, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nDaniel Wnukowski, pianist<br \/>\nDave Stala, Hamilton Tiger-Cats player (CFL)<br \/>\nDevon Sawa, actor<br \/>\nDon Mazankowski, former Deputy Prime Minister for Brian Mulroney (1986-1993), former federal government Minister (1979-1980; 1984-1993), Progressive Conservative MP Vegreville (1968-1993)<br \/>\nEd Ziemba, former Ontario NDP MPP, High Park-Swansea (1975-1981), brother-in-law of Elaine Ziemba<br \/>\nElaine Ziemba, former Ontario NDP MPP, High Park-Swansea (1990-1995), sister-in-law of Ed Ziemba<br \/>\nEric Rene Lajczak, bodybuilder (Mr. Northern Alberta, June 2015 )<br \/>\nEstanislao (Stan) Oziewicz, journalist, The Globe and Mail<br \/>\nEva Stachniak, writer<br \/>\nFred Rose, former Labor-Progressive (Communist) MP Cartier (1943-1947); only MP ever convicted of spying for a foreign country, his capture as a Soviet spy helped to start the Cold War<br \/>\nGabriela Dabrowski, professional tennis player<br \/>\nGary Filmon, former Premier of Manitoba (1988-1999), Manitoba PC MLA, River Heights (1979-1981), and Tuxedo (1981-2000)<br \/>\nGary Malkowski, former Ontario NDP MPP, York East (1990-1995), Canada's first deaf parliamentarian<br \/>\nGeddy Lee, bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist for Rush<br \/>\nGeorge Radwanski, editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star<br \/>\nHenry Czerny, actor<br \/>\nIsaac Hellmuth, from Warsaw via England, one of the founders of the University of Western Ontario<br \/>\nJacob Kuba Rybicki, music producer, born in Toronto<br \/>\nJacqueline Milczarek, journalist, news anchor<br \/>\nJamie Oleksiak, NHL player for the Dallas Stars<br \/>\nJan Dukszta, former Ontario NDP MPP, Parkdale (1971-1981)<br \/>\nJan Lisiecki, pianist-virtuoso, born in Calgary<br \/>\nJanina Fialkowska, pianist, born in Montreal<br \/>\nJanusz \u017burakowski, Battle of Britain fighter pilot<br \/>\nJesse Flis, former Liberal MP Parkdale-High Park (1979-1984; 1988-1997)<br \/>\nJim Peplinski, Calgary Flames, NHL<br \/>\nJoe Krol, Toronto Argonauts player<br \/>\nJohn Tavares, ice hockey player for the New York Islanders<br \/>\nJohn Vernon, actor<br \/>\nJohn Yakabuski, Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke (2003-present), son of Paul Yakabuski<br \/>\nKarol J\u00f3zef Kr\u00f3tki, FRSC, demography professor, statistician<br \/>\nKen Kowalski, former Deputy Premier of Alberta (1992-1994), former Alberta Government Minister, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1997-2012), Alberta PC MLA (1979-2012)<br \/>\nKinga Mitrowska, singer<br \/>\nKornel Wolak, clarinet virtuoso<br \/>\nKrzysztof Soszynski, mixed martial artist<br \/>\nLara Jean Chorostecki, actress<br \/>\nLarry Trader, ice hockey player for Detroit, St. Louis, Montreal (1982-1988)<br \/>\nLeon David Crestohl, former Liberal MP, Cartier (1950-1963)<br \/>\nLeon Katz, FRSC (1909-2004), Officer of the Order of Canada, professor at University of Saskatchewan, physicist<br \/>\nLisa Ray, actress<br \/>\nLucas Skoczkowski, founder and CEO of Redknee<br \/>\nMagda Apanowicz, actress<br \/>\nMarek Jablonski, pianist-virtuoso, born in Cracow<br \/>\nMargaret Maye, singer and actress<br \/>\nMark Starowicz, head of CBC Television Documentary Programming unit, journalist, and TV producer<br \/>\nMichael Klukowski, soccer player for Club Brugge<br \/>\nNicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, FRSC, mathematics professor<br \/>\nOlenka Krakus, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nPaloma Kwiatkowski, actress<br \/>\nPaul Yakabuski, former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP (1963-1987), father of John Yakabuski<br \/>\nPenny Oleksiak, Canadian National Team swimmer<br \/>\nPeter Czerwinski, competitive eater and bodybuilder<br \/>\nPeter Gzowski, broadcaster, writer, and reporter<br \/>\nPeter Milczyn, former Member of Toronto City Council (2000-2014), current Liberal MPP Etobicoke-Lakeshore (2014-present)<br \/>\nShane Churla, player, NHL<br \/>\nStan Kazmierczak Keyes, former national chair of Liberal Party of Canada (2002-2004), Liberal MP Hamilton West (1988-2004), Minister of National Revenue, Minister of State (Sport), Minister Responsible for the Canada Post Corporation and Minister Responsible for the Royal Canadian Mint (2003-2004)<br \/>\nStan Mikawos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers player (CFL)<br \/>\nStanley Haidasz, former Liberal MP for Trinity (1957-1958) and Parkdale (1962-1978), Minister of State for Multiculturalism (1972-1974), senator (1978-1998)<br \/>\nStefan Sznuk, major general<br \/>\nSteve Jocz, drummer for Sum 41<br \/>\nTed Opitz, former Conservative MP for Etobicoke Centre (2011-2015)<br \/>\nThomas Lukaszuk, former Deputy Premier of Alberta (2012-2013), former Alberta Government Minister (2010-2014), and PC MLA for Edmonton-Castle Downs (2001-2015)<br \/>\nTom Kmiec, Conservative MP, Calgary Shepard (2015-present)<br \/>\nTomasz Kucharzewski, martial artist<br \/>\nTomasz Radzinski, soccer player<br \/>\nTrish Stratus, WWE Diva<br \/>\nTurk Broda, ice hockey goalie<br \/>\nWac\u0142aw Iwaniuk, poet in Polish, literary critic, and essayist<br \/>\nWalter \"Killer\" Kowalski, professional wrestler<br \/>\nWalter Buczynski, composer<br \/>\nWalter J. Natynczyk, Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces<br \/>\nWanda Kaluzny, conductor<br \/>\nWayne Gretzky, hockey legend<br \/>\nWitold Rybczynski, architect, professor, and writer<br \/>\nWladyslaw Lizon, former Conservative MP for Mississauga East-Cooksville (2011-2015), former president of the Canadian Polish Congress (2005-2010)<br \/>\nWojtek Wolski, NHL player<br \/>\nZygmunt Misiak, WW2 baby Polish refugee, author, First Nations history\/culture<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba2935k312\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Portuguese explorers were among the first Europeans to see Canadian soil. It is believed that Diogo de Teive (1452), Jo\u00e3o Vaz Corte-Real (1470), Joao Fernandes, and Pedro de Barcelos (1493) touched on the eastern coast of Canada, and conclusive evidence exists about explorations by Miguel and Gaspar Corte-Real, who were lost in Newfoundland waters in 1501 and 1502, respectively. That the Portuguese subsequently fished for cod on the Grand Banks is attested to by numerous place names. Labrador, likely from the Portuguese lavrador (\"small landowner or farmer\u201d), indicates that the Portuguese knew of this territory. The Portuguese in New France were descended from a few families founded by immigrants of 1668 and later.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>According to the 2016 Census, there are 482,605 Canadians of Portuguese ancestry in Canada.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>(Canadian Encyclopedia)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Famous Portuguese Canadians<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Adam Henrique, professional ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils, part Portuguese<br \/>\nAlex Silva, professional wrestler<br \/>\nAlexandra Mend\u00e8s, Liberal Member of Parliament for the Quebec electoral districts of Brossard-La Prairie (2008-2011) and Brossard-Saint-Lambert (2015-present)<br \/>\nAna Bail\u00e3o, Toronto City Councillor for (Ward 18) Davenport<br \/>\nAnthony de S\u00e1, novelist and short story writer<br \/>\nAnthony Gomes, blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer<br \/>\nAnt\u00f3nio Carvalho, featherweight MMA fighter<br \/>\nBrian Melo, musician, winner of Canadian Idol, season five<br \/>\nCarlos Leit\u00e3o, economist and politician, current Finance Minister of Quebec<br \/>\nCharles Sousa, Minister of Finance for Ontario and the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Mississauga-South<br \/>\nDaniel Fernandes, Portuguese-Canadian footballer who participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup<br \/>\nDanny Fernandes, pop\/R&amp;B singer and dancer; younger brother of Shawn Desman<br \/>\nDrew Doughty, professional ice hockey player for the Los Angeles Kings, part Portuguese<br \/>\nDylan DeMelo, professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL)<br \/>\nEmanuel Viveiros, former professional ice hockey player for the Minnesota North Stars<br \/>\nErika de Vasconcelos, novelist<br \/>\nEvan Rodrigues, professional ice hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL)<br \/>\nJohn Tavares, professional ice hockey player drafted first overall in the 2009 NHL entry draft by the New York Islanders, has been interviewed by media from Portugal and speaks the language fluently (half Portuguese, half Polish)<br \/>\nJohn Tavares, professional lacrosse player for the Buffalo Bandits, uncle of John Tavares (ice hockey)<br \/>\nJustin Azevedo, professional ice hockey player in the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization<br \/>\nKeith Martin (PC, MP, BSc, MD), physician and former (1993-2011) Liberal Member of Parliament for the Victoria-area electoral district of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca<br \/>\nKeshia Chant\u00e9, singer, songwriter, and actress<br \/>\nLouis Ferreira, actor (sometimes credited as Justin Lewis) who has appeared on nine TV series to date<br \/>\nLucas Silveira, singer\/guitarist of rock band The Cliks<br \/>\nMario Silva, former (2004-2011) Liberal Member of Parliament for the Davenport region in Toronto and former Toronto City Councilor<br \/>\nMeaghan Benfeito, Canadian national team diver<br \/>\nMike Benevides, head coach of the BC Lions<br \/>\nMike Ribeiro, professional ice hockey player for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL)<br \/>\nNelly Furtado, singer, songwriter, and actress<br \/>\nPaul Ferreira, New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for York-South Weston from February 2007 to October 2007<br \/>\nPedro da Silva, first post courier in New France<br \/>\nPeter Fonseca, Minister of Labour of Ontario and member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament (2003)<br \/>\nPeter Serrado, singer-songwriter, finalist at the 2018 Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o in Portugal<br \/>\nRamona Milano, actor, known for her roles as Francesca Vecchio on Due South and Audra Torres on Degrassi: The Next Generation; her mother is from Faial, Azores<br \/>\nShawn Desman, pop singer and dancer<br \/>\nShawn Mendes, singer-songwriter<br \/>\nSteve Martins, former professional ice hockey player for the Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Islanders, St. Louis Blues, and Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-tab\" id=\"5cafba30l35330\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>There have been two waves of Vietnamese immigration to Canada. The first wave consisted mostly of middle class people who fled to Canada after the fall of Saigon in 1975. The second wave of immigration consisted of refugees from the former South Vietnam, seeking to escape the oppressive regime established after the reunification of the two Vietnams into a single country. These refugees were widely referred to in the mass media as \u201cboat people.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>According to the 2011 census, there are 220,425 people of Vietnamese descent in Canada.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Famous Vietnamese Canadians<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Andrew Phung, actor<br \/>\nAnne Minh-Thu Quach, federal Member of Parliament for Beauharnois\u2014Salaberry (NDP)<br \/>\nCarol Huynh, freestyle wrestler, Olympic gold medallist<br \/>\nCaroline Vu, writer and doctor<br \/>\nCharles Chi, entrepreneur, chancellor of Carleton University<br \/>\nChristy Chung, Hong Kong based actress<br \/>\nChuckie Akenz (aka Phong Nguyen), songwriter and rapper<br \/>\nDang Thai Son, pianist<br \/>\nDavid Huynh, Los Angeles based actor<br \/>\n\u00c8ve-Mary Tha\u00ef Thi Lac, former federal Member of Parliament for Saint-Hyacinthe\u2014Bagot and member of the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<br \/>\nHieu Truong, Director of Advanced Engineering and Research at the Royal Canadian Mint, Officer of the Order of Canada<br \/>\nHoang Mai, federal Member of Parliament for Brossard\u2014La Prairie (NDP)<br \/>\nHung Pham, Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary Montrose (1993\u20132008)<br \/>\nKim Nguyen, film director and screenwriter<br \/>\nKim Th\u00fay, writer, food critic, and lawyer<br \/>\nMayko Nguyen, actress<br \/>\nMinh Le, software engineer, created the popular first-person shooter game, Counter Strike<br \/>\nNam Nguyen, figure skater<br \/>\nNguyen Ngoc Ngan, writer, essayist, and host of Paris by Night<br \/>\nPaul Nguyen, activist, journalist, and documentarian<br \/>\nPhan Th\u1ecb Kim Ph\u00fac, humanitarian, UNESCO ambassador, Vietnam War survivor<br \/>\nSiu Ta, actress (This Is Wonderland)<br \/>\nThanh Hai Ngo, first Canadian senator (Conservative) of Vietnamese descent<br \/>\nThi Be Nguyen, philanthropist and documentarian<br \/>\nThien LE, fashion designer and founder of the Thien Le Tommy Ton, photographer<br \/>\nTr\u1ea7n Tri\u1ec7u Qu\u00e2n, engineer, businessman, and president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation<br \/>\nWayne Cao, Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary Fort (1997\u20132011)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"motopress-hide-script\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n                    var mpTabs640114b5aef19 = jQuery(\"#tabs640114b5aef19\");\n                    jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n                        if ($(\"base\").length) {\n\t\t\t                mpTabs640114b5aef19.find(\"ul li a\").each(function() {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    $(this).attr(\"href\", location.href.toString() + $(this).attr(\"href\"));\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n                        if (mpTabs640114b5aef19.data(\"uiTabs\")) {\n                            mpTabs640114b5aef19.tabs(\"destroy\");\n                        }\n                        if (typeof $.ui !== \"undefined\") {\n                        \tif (typeof $.ui.tabs !== \"undefined\") {\n\t\t                        mpTabs640114b5aef19.tabs({\n\t\t                            active: 0\n\t\t                        });\n\t                        }\n                        }\n                        ;\n                        var tab640114b5aef19Height = jQuery(mpTabs640114b5aef19).find(\".ui-tabs-nav\").height();\n                        jQuery(mpTabs640114b5aef19).find(\".motopress-tab\").css(\"min-height\", tab640114b5aef19Height);\n                    });\n                    jQuery(window).load(function() {\n                        var tab640114b5aef19Height = jQuery(mpTabs640114b5aef19).find(\".ui-tabs-nav\").height();\n                        jQuery(mpTabs640114b5aef19).find(\".motopress-tab\").css(\"min-height\", tab640114b5aef19Height);\n                    });\n                     <\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famous Ethnic Canadians Arab-Canadians Celtic Canadians Cuban Canadians Filipino Canadians Hungarian Canadians Indian Canadians Italian Canadians Russian Canadians Ukrainian Canadians Aboriginal Canadians African Canadians Argentinian Canadians Caribbean Canadians German Canadians Greek Canadians Iranian Canadians Japanese Canadians Polish Canadians Portuguese Canadians Vietnamese Canadians Arab-Canadians have come from all of the countries of the Arab world since 1882. 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