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Iranian Canadians

January 06, 2023

Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians[2][3] are citizens of Canada whose national background is traced from Iran or are people possessing Iranian and Canadian dual citizenship.[4] From the 2016 Canadian census, the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. The vast majority, however, live in northern suburbs of Toronto such as Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Markham, and Thornhill, and in certain municipalities of Vancouver, including North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, and Coquitlam. As of 2016 a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area,[5] 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area,[6] and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area,[7] 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.

Iranian Canadians
ایرانیان کانادایی
Total population
210,405 (2016 census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Richmond Hill, Toronto, North Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa
Languages
Persian, Canadian English, Canadian French Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Mandaic, and other languages of Iran. (see Languages of Iran).
Religion
Predominantly Shia Islam and Irreligion
Minorities include Agnosticism, Bahaʼi Faith, Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Judaism, Sunni Islam, Zoroastrianism and Mandaeism

Terminology

Iranian-Canadian is used interchangeably with Persian-Canadian,[8][9][10][11] partly due to the fact[12] 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.[13] However the issue is still debated today.[14][15]

While the majority of Iranian-Canadians come from Persian backgrounds, there is a significant number of non-Persian Iranians such as Azeris[16][17][18] and Kurds within the Iranian-Canadian community,[19][20] leading some scholars to believe that the label "Iranian" is more inclusive, since the label "Persian" excludes non-Persian minorities.[19] The Collins English Dictionary uses a variety of similar and overlapping definitions for the terms "Persian" and "Iranian".[21][22]

Demographics

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. 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.[23]

Notable Canadians of Iranian descent

 
Editorial team of Shahrvand weekly in Toronto, the largest Persian newspaper in Canada

Academia

 
Little Persia on Yonge Street at North York, 2014

Art and literature

Beauty pageants

Business

 
The Ghermezians, an Iranian-Canadian family, own the West Edmonton Mall.

Crime

Entertainment

Journalism

 
ITC TV, one of the Persian-language TV stations in Toronto

Various Persian-language media (including TV and newspapers) are active in Canada, including Shahrvand and Salam Toronto, which cover local events as well.[26]

Politicians

Sport

Technology

Iranian districts in Canada

British Columbia

Ontario

See also

References

  1. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics (2017-02-08). "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Canada [Country] and Canada [Country]". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
  2. ^ . Pm.gc.ca. 2009-08-04. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  3. ^ "Nazanin Afshin-Jam: TD Bank 'Misinterpreting' Iran Sanctions In Shutting Persian-Canadians' Accounts". HuffingtonPost.ca. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
  4. ^ "Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories - 20% sample data". Statistics Canada. 2008-04-02. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
  5. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Toronto [Census metropolitan area], Ontario and Ontario [Province]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  6. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Vancouver [Census metropolitan area], British Columbia and British Columbia [Province]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  7. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Montréal [Census metropolitan area], Quebec and Quebec [Province]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  8. ^ Daha, Maryam (September 2011). "Contextual Factors Contributing to Ethnic Identity Development of Second-Generation Iranian American Adolescents". Journal of Adolescent Research. 26 (5): 543–569. doi:10.1177/0743558411402335. S2CID 146592244. ... the majority of the participants self-identified themselves as Persian instead of Iranian, due to the stereotypes and negative portrayals of Iranians in the media and politics. Adolescents from Jewish and Bahaʼi faiths asserted their religious identity more than their ethnic identity. The fact Iranians use Persian interchangeably is nothing to do with current Iranian government because the name Iran was used before this period as well. Linguistically modern Persian is a branch of Old Persian in the family of Indo-European languages and that includes all the minorities as well more inclusively.
  9. ^ Nakamura, Raymond M. (2003). Health in America: A Multicultural Perspective. Kendall/Hunt Pub. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7575-0637-6. Iranian/Persian Americans – The flow of Iranian citizens into the United States began in 1979, during and after the Islamic Revolution.
  10. ^ Zanger, Mark (2001). The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students. ABC-CLIO. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-57356-345-1. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  11. ^ Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, Carl Leon Bankston,"Therefore, Turkish and Iranian (Persian) Americans, who are Muslims but not ethnically Arabs, are often mistakenly..", Salem Press, 2000
  12. ^ Darya, Fereshteh Haeri (2007). Second-generation Iranian-Americans: The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, and Psychological Well-being. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-542-97374-1. Retrieved 21 December 2016. According to previous studies, the presence of heterogeneity is evident among Iranian immigrants (also known as Persians – Iran was known as Persia until 1935) who came from myriads of religious (Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Armenian, Assyrian, Bahaʼi and Zoroastrian), ethnic (Turk, Kurds, Baluchs, Lurs, Turkamans, Arabs, as well as tribes such as Ghasghaie, and Bakhtiari), linguistic/dialogic background (Persian, Azari, Gialki, Mazandarani, Kurdish, Arabic, and others). Cultural, religious and political, and various other differences among Iranians reflect their diverse social and interpersonal interactions. Some studies suggest that, despite the existence of subgroup within Iranian immigrants (e.g. various ethno-religious groups), their nationality as Iranians has been an important point of reference and identifiable source of their identification as a group across time and setting.
  13. ^ Yarshater, Ehsan Persia or Iran, Persian or Farsi 2010-10-24 at the Wayback Machine, Iranian Studies, vol. XXII no. 1 (1989)
  14. ^ Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, by Hooman Majd, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, September 23, 2008, ISBN 0385528426, 9780385528429. p. 161
  15. ^ Frye, Richard Nelson (2005). Greater Iran: A 20th-century Odyssey. Mazda. ISBN 9781568591773. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  16. ^ Svante E. Cornell (20 May 2015). Azerbaijan Since Independence. Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-317-47621-4.
  17. ^ Barbara A. West (1 January 2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. Infobase Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4381-1913-7.
  18. ^ James Minahan (1 January 2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: S-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 1766. ISBN 978-0-313-32384-3.
  19. ^ a b Bozorgmehr, Mehdi (2009). "Iran". In Mary C. Waters; Reed Ueda; Helen B. Marrow (eds.). The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965. Harvard University Press. p. 469. ISBN 978-0-674-04493-7.
  20. ^ Elizabeth Chacko, Contemporary ethnic geographies in America // Ines M. Miyares, Christopher A. Airriess (eds.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, pp. 325–326
  21. ^ "Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition". Collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
  22. ^ "Definition of "Persian"". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  23. ^ "Religion by immigrant status and period of immigration and place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories (customized table)".
  24. ^ "Payam Akhavan". HuffingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  25. ^ [1] 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ "Shahrvand Profile". Canadian Minority Media Database. 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-06-25.

External links

  • Iranians of Toronto website

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Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians 2 3 are citizens of Canada whose national background is traced from Iran or are people possessing Iranian and Canadian dual citizenship 4 From the 2016 Canadian census the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario British Columbia and Quebec The vast majority however live in northern suburbs of Toronto such as Richmond Hill Vaughan Markham and Thornhill and in certain municipalities of Vancouver including North Vancouver West Vancouver Burnaby and Coquitlam As of 2016 update a total of 97 110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area 5 46 255 in the Greater Vancouver Area 6 and 23 410 in the Greater Montreal Area 7 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 Iranian Canadiansایرانیان کاناداییTotal population210 405 2016 census 1 Regions with significant populationsRichmond Hill Toronto North Vancouver Montreal OttawaLanguagesPersian Canadian English Canadian French Azerbaijani Armenian Kurdish Mandaic and other languages of Iran see Languages of Iran ReligionPredominantly Shia Islam and IrreligionMinorities include Agnosticism Bahaʼi Faith Christianity Protestantism and Catholicism Judaism Sunni Islam Zoroastrianism and Mandaeism Contents 1 Terminology 2 Demographics 3 Notable Canadians of Iranian descent 3 1 Academia 3 2 Art and literature 3 3 Beauty pageants 3 4 Business 3 5 Crime 3 6 Entertainment 3 7 Journalism 3 8 Politicians 3 9 Sport 3 10 Technology 4 Iranian districts in Canada 4 1 British Columbia 4 2 Ontario 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksTerminologyIranian Canadian is used interchangeably with Persian Canadian 8 9 10 11 partly due to the fact 12 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 13 However the issue is still debated today 14 15 While the majority of Iranian Canadians come from Persian backgrounds there is a significant number of non Persian Iranians such as Azeris 16 17 18 and Kurds within the Iranian Canadian community 19 20 leading some scholars to believe that the label Iranian is more inclusive since the label Persian excludes non Persian minorities 19 The Collins English Dictionary uses a variety of similar and overlapping definitions for the terms Persian and Iranian 21 22 DemographicsIn 2021 there were 213 160 individuals in Canada who had been born in Iran of which 70 395 had immigrated to Canada since 2011 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 23 Notable Canadians of Iranian descent Editorial team of Shahrvand weekly in Toronto the largest Persian newspaper in Canada Academia Little Persia on Yonge Street at North York 2014 Payam Akhavan pioneer in international criminal law and leading human rights advocate McGill University 24 Kaveh Farrokh historian Ramin Jahanbegloo philosopher and university professor Ali Khademhosseini Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology 25 Shahrzad Mojab Professor of Leadership Higher and Adult Education University of Toronto Reza Zadeh computer scientist Stanford UniversityArt and literature Hossein Amanat architect urban designer Reza Baraheni novelist poet critic and political activist Jian Ghomeshi member of Moxy Fruvous 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 Nima Mazhari fr painter photographer and husband of ex Olympic biathlete Myriam Bedard 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 Parviz Tanavoli sculptor and painterBeauty 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 2008Business The Ghermezians an Iranian Canadian family own the West Edmonton Mall 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 publisherCrime Omid Tahvili kingpin and international fugitiveEntertainment Mehdi Sadaghdar YouTube personality electrical engineerJournalism ITC TV one of the Persian language TV stations in Toronto Various Persian language media including TV and newspapers are active in Canada including Shahrvand and Salam Toronto which cover local events as well 26 Maziar Bahari journalist Farid Haerinejad CBC former producer documentary maker and current Editor in Chief of Radio Zamaneh Zahra Kazemi photojournalist Nikahang Kowsar cartoonist Touka Neyestani cartoonistPoliticians Ali Ehsassi Federal Liberal MP for Willowdale lawyer Majid Jowhari Federal Liberal MP for Richmond Hill engineer Amir Khadir Quebec solidaire Former MNA for Mercier microbiologist Reza Moridi Ontario Liberal Former MPP for Richmond Hill physicist engineerSport Nicholas Latifi Formula One driver for Williams Grand Prix EngineeringTechnology Behdad Esfahbod programmer and creator of the HarfBuzz text shaping engineIranian districts in CanadaBritish Columbia British Properties West Vancouver Ambleside West Vancouver Lower North Vancouver Coal Harbour Financial District Vancouver Vancouver s Downtown SouthOntario Willowdale East Newtonbrook East Don Valley Village Newtonbrook West Bayview Village Flemingdon Park Willowdale West Parkwoods Donalda Woburn Mount Pleasant WestSee also Canada portal Iran portalAzerbaijani Canadians Armenian Canadians Canadian Society of Iranian Engineers and Architects Ottawa Iranian diaspora Iranian Americans Kurds in Canada Middle Eastern Canadians West Asian CanadiansReferences Canada Government of Canada Statistics 2017 02 08 Census Profile 2016 Census Canada Country and Canada Country www12 statcan gc ca PM meets with representatives of the Persian Canadian community Prime Minister of Canada Pm gc ca 2009 08 04 Archived from the original on 2012 03 06 Retrieved 2012 09 10 Nazanin Afshin Jam TD Bank Misinterpreting Iran Sanctions In Shutting Persian Canadians Accounts HuffingtonPost ca 2012 09 12 Retrieved 2015 04 27 Ethnic origins 2006 counts for Canada provinces and territories 20 sample data Statistics Canada 2008 04 02 Retrieved 2009 10 11 Canada Government of Canada Statistics Census Profile 2016 Census Toronto Census metropolitan area Ontario and Ontario Province www12 statcan gc ca Retrieved 2018 03 13 Canada Government of Canada Statistics Census Profile 2016 Census Vancouver Census metropolitan area British Columbia and British Columbia Province www12 statcan gc ca Retrieved 2018 03 13 Canada Government of Canada Statistics Census Profile 2016 Census Montreal Census metropolitan area Quebec and Quebec Province www12 statcan gc ca Retrieved 2018 03 13 Daha Maryam September 2011 Contextual Factors Contributing to Ethnic Identity Development of Second Generation Iranian American Adolescents Journal of Adolescent Research 26 5 543 569 doi 10 1177 0743558411402335 S2CID 146592244 the majority of the participants self identified themselves as Persian instead of Iranian due to the stereotypes and negative portrayals of Iranians in the media and politics Adolescents from Jewish and Bahaʼi faiths asserted their religious identity more than their ethnic identity The fact Iranians use Persian interchangeably is nothing to do with current Iranian government because the name Iran was used before this period as well Linguistically modern Persian is a branch of Old Persian in the family of Indo European languages and that includes all the minorities as well more inclusively Nakamura Raymond M 2003 Health in America A Multicultural Perspective Kendall Hunt Pub p 31 ISBN 978 0 7575 0637 6 Iranian Persian Americans The flow of Iranian citizens into the United States began in 1979 during and after the Islamic Revolution Zanger Mark 2001 The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students ABC CLIO p 213 ISBN 978 1 57356 345 1 Retrieved December 21 2016 Racial and Ethnic Relations in America Carl Leon Bankston Therefore Turkish and Iranian Persian Americans who are Muslims but not ethnically Arabs are often mistakenly Salem Press 2000 Darya Fereshteh Haeri 2007 Second generation Iranian Americans The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity Acculturation and Psychological Well being pp 3 4 ISBN 978 0 542 97374 1 Retrieved 21 December 2016 According to previous studies the presence of heterogeneity is evident among Iranian immigrants also known as Persians Iran was known as Persia until 1935 who came from myriads of religious Muslim Christian Jewish Armenian Assyrian Bahaʼi and Zoroastrian ethnic Turk Kurds Baluchs Lurs Turkamans Arabs as well as tribes such as Ghasghaie and Bakhtiari linguistic dialogic background Persian Azari Gialki Mazandarani Kurdish Arabic and others Cultural religious and political and various other differences among Iranians reflect their diverse social and interpersonal interactions Some studies suggest that despite the existence of subgroup within Iranian immigrants e g various ethno religious groups their nationality as Iranians has been an important point of reference and identifiable source of their identification as a group across time and setting Yarshater Ehsan Persia or Iran Persian or Farsi Archived 2010 10 24 at the Wayback Machine Iranian Studies vol XXII no 1 1989 Majd Hooman The Ayatollah Begs to Differ The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group September 23 2008 ISBN 0385528426 9780385528429 p 161 Frye Richard Nelson 2005 Greater Iran A 20th century Odyssey Mazda ISBN 9781568591773 Retrieved December 21 2016 Svante E Cornell 20 May 2015 Azerbaijan Since Independence Routledge p 7 ISBN 978 1 317 47621 4 Barbara A West 1 January 2009 Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania Infobase Publishing p 68 ISBN 978 1 4381 1913 7 James Minahan 1 January 2002 Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations S Z Greenwood Publishing Group p 1766 ISBN 978 0 313 32384 3 a b Bozorgmehr Mehdi 2009 Iran In Mary C Waters Reed Ueda Helen B Marrow eds The New Americans A Guide to Immigration since 1965 Harvard University Press p 469 ISBN 978 0 674 04493 7 Elizabeth Chacko Contemporary ethnic geographies in America Ines M Miyares Christopher A Airriess eds Rowman amp Littlefield 2007 pp 325 326 Collins English Dictionary Complete amp Unabridged 11th Edition Collinsdictionary com Retrieved September 4 2012 Definition of Persian Collins English Dictionary Retrieved January 12 2016 Religion by immigrant status and period of immigration and place of birth Canada provinces and territories customized table Payam Akhavan HuffingtonPost com Retrieved 2017 08 20 1 Archived 2012 04 15 at the Wayback Machine Shahrvand Profile Canadian Minority Media Database 2014 05 08 Retrieved 2014 06 25 External linksPM meets with representatives of the Persian Canadian community Iranians of Toronto website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Iranian Canadians amp oldid 1131895979, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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