The African Community in Canada - ARCHIVED

This report describes the basic social and economic characteristics of people in Canada who have an ethnic or cultural ancestry in Africa. It is part of a series of profiles of the country's major non-European ethnic groups.

People of African ancestry make up one of the largest non-European ethnic groupings in Canada. Indeed, as of 2001, there were almost 300,000 people reporting they had African roots living in Canada. That year, those of African descent made up around 1% of the total population of Canada.