The Haitian Community in Canada

This report describes the basic social and economic characteristics of people of the Haitian community in Canada. It is part of a series of profiles of the country's major non-European ethnic groups.

Canadians of Haitian origin make up one of the largest non-European ethnic groups in Canada. In 2001, there were just over 82,000 people of Haitian origin living in Canada making them the 10th largest non-European community in the country, after Chinese, East Indian, Filipino, Jamaican, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Korean, Iranian and Japanese.