Iranian Canadians
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Template:Short description Template:Protection padlock Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians[3][4] are Canadians of Iranian origin.[5] From the 2016 Canadian census, the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. since 2016[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area,[6] 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area,[7] and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area,[8] with the remainder spread out in the other major cities of Canada, based on the 2016 Canadian Census. These numbers represent the people who stated "Iranian" as their single or joint ethnic origin in the census survey.
Terminology
Iranian-Canadian is used interchangeably with Persian-Canadian,[9][10][11][12] partly due to the fact[13] that, in the Western world, Iran was known as "Persia". On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country used since the Sasanian Empire, in formal correspondence. Since then the use of the word "Iran" has become more common in the Western countries. This also changed the usage of the terms for Iranian nationality, and the common adjective for citizens of Iran changed from "Persian" to "Iranian". In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could officially be used interchangeably.[14] However the issue is still debated today.[15][16]
While the majority of Iranian-Canadians come from Persian backgrounds, there is a significant number of non-Persian Iranians such as Azeris[17][18][19] and Kurds within the Iranian-Canadian community,[20][21] leading some scholars to believe that the label "Iranian" is more inclusive, since the label "Persian" excludes non-Persian minorities.[20] The Collins English Dictionary uses a variety of similar and overlapping definitions for the terms "Persian" and "Iranian".[22][23]
Demography
Population
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Immigration
In 2021, there were 213,160 individuals in Canada who had been born in Iran, of which 70,395 had immigrated to Canada since 2011.
Religion
Among all Iranian-Canadians, 103,560 (49%) identified as Muslim. Among immigrants since 2011, about 39,860 (57%) identified as Muslim while most of the rest did not identify with any religion.[24]
| Religious group | 2021[25]Template:Efn | |
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| Pop. | % | |
| Islam | 123,045 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Irreligion | 120,250 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Christianity | 18,270 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Judaism | 1,235 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Hinduism | 240 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Buddhism | 220 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Sikhism | 150 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Indigenous spirituality | 35 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Other (primarily ZoroastrianismScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) | 17,350 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Total Iranian Canadian population |
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Geographical distribution
Provinces & territories
| Province/Territory | 2021[1]Template:Efn | 2016[26] | 2011[27] | 2006[28] | 2001[29] | |||||
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| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
| File:Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario | 155,855 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 117,065 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 92,635 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 70,595 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 51,775 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of British Columbia.svg British Columbia | 68,545 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 47,985 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 39,285 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 29,265 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 21,910 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Quebec.svg Quebec | 34,010 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 25,530 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 17,825 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 12,370 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 9,535 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta | 15,185 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 13,925 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 9,215 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 5,835 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,130 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Manitoba.svg Manitoba | 2,010 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,885 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,265 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,485 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 630 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Saskatchewan.svg Saskatchewan | 1,825 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,340 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 795 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 630 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 525 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Nova Scotia.svg Nova Scotia | 1,640 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,405 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 1,240 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 805 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 390 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of New Brunswick.svg New Brunswick | 845 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 670 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 445 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 380 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 185 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador.svg Newfoundland and Labrador | 535 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 215 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 180 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 60 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 35 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Prince Edward Island.svg Prince Edward Island | 270 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 295 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 335 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 15 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 25 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of the Northwest Territories.svg Northwest Territories | 45 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 60 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 55 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 45 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 20 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Nunavut.svg Nunavut | 20 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 20 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 0 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 10 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 10 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Yukon.svg Yukon | 20 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 15 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 20 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 10 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 45 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| File:Flag of Canada.svg Canada | 280,805 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 210,405 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 163,290 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 121,505 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 88,220 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
British Columbia
Ontario
Islamic republic politicians/sympathizers
Canada in 2022 banned ten thousand IRGC seniors and officers from entry.[30] Iranian celebrities and government former ministers and officials are often mentioned in the news residing or traveling in Canada as well.[31][32][33][34]
Notable Canadians of Iranian descent
Academia
- Payam Akhavan, pioneer in international criminal law and leading human rights advocate; McGill University[35]
- Kaveh Farrokh, historian
- Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher and university professor
- Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor of Medicine; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology[36]
- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education; University of Toronto
- Reza Zadeh, computer scientist; Stanford University
Art and literature
- Hossein Amanat, architect, urban designer
- Reza Baraheni, novelist, poet, critic, and political activist
- Ila Firouzabadi, artist and screenwriter
- Jian Ghomeshi, member of Moxy Früvous; former host of CBC's play; former host of Q on CBC Radio 1
- Siamak Hariri, architect
- Nazanine Hozar, writer
- Ramin Karimloo, West End performer, playing the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the sequel Love Never Dies
- Navid Khonsari, video game, film and graphic novel creator, writer, director and producer
- Fariborz Lachini, music composer
- Template:Ill, painter, photographer and husband of ex-Olympic biathlete Myriam Bédard, convicted and sentenced in June 2007 for stealing paintings from the late painter Ghitta Caiserman
- Sanaz Mazinani, photographer and curator
- Kaveh Nabatian, musician and filmmaker
- Marina Nemat, author
- Ghazal Omid, nonfiction political writer, nonfiction children's book writer, speaker, NGO executive
- Fariborz Sahba, architect
- Bardia Sinaee, poet
- Marjan Farsad, Animator, illustrator, singer, and songwriter
- Parviz Tanavoli, Sculptor and painter
- Sirak Melkonian, Painter
- Mostafa Keshvari, Director and writer[37]
- Anahita Akhavan, painter
Beauty pageants
- Nazanin 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
- Ramona Amiri, Miss World Canada 2005, semifinalist of Miss World 2005
- Samantha Tajik, Miss Universe Canada 2008
Business
- Ghermezian family, billionaire shopping mall developers
- Hassan Khosrowshahi, founder of Future Shop
- Karim Hakimi, founder of Hakim Optical
- Michael Latifi, founder of Sofina Foods Ltd and owner of Nidala (BVI) Limited which holds a share in the McLaren Group.
- Shahrzad Rafati, founder of BroadbandTV Corp
- Sam Mizrahi, real estate developer
- Shahin Assayesh, publisher
Crime
- Omid Tahvili, kingpin and international fugitive
Entertainment
- Pirouz Nemati, actor and screenwriter (Universal Language)
- Mehdi Sadaghdar, YouTube personality, electrical engineer
- Mani Soleymanlou, actor and playwright
Journalism
Various Persian-language media (including TV and newspapers) are active in Canada, including Shahrvand and Salam Toronto, which cover local events as well.[38]
- Maziar Bahari, journalist
- Farid Haerinejad, CBC former producer, documentary maker, and editor-in-chief of Radio Zamaneh
- Shaya Goldoust, journalist, podcaster, radio host[39]
- Zahra Kazemi, photojournalist
- Nikahang Kowsar, cartoonist
- Touka Neyestani, cartoonist
Politicians
- Ali Ehsassi, Federal Liberal MP for Willowdale, lawyer
- Majid Jowhari, Federal Liberal MP for Richmond Hill, engineer
- Amir Khadir, Québec solidaire Former MNA for Mercier, microbiologist
- Reza Moridi, Ontario Liberal Former MPP for Richmond Hill, physicist, engineer
Sport
- Nicholas Latifi, Formula One driver for Williams Grand Prix Engineering
- Khashayar Farzam, Powerlifter and Physician
Technology
- Behdad Esfahbod, programmer and creator of the HarfBuzz text shaping engine
See also
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- Azerbaijani Canadians
- Armenian Canadians
- Canadian Society of Iranian Engineers and Architects-Ottawa
- Iranian diaspora
- Kurds in Canada
- Middle Eastern Canadians
- West Asian Canadians
Notes
References
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