Canada receives its immigrant population from almost 200 countries. Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% …

French Canadians Canadiens français; Total population; 4,995,040 in Canada (by ancestry) 14.5% of the total Canadian population (2016) c. 10.56 million (French-speaking Canadians) 29.1% of the total Canadian population (2021) 1,998,012 in the United States (2020): Regions with significant populations; Canada: majority in Quebec, large minority in New Brunswick, small …

Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights are some of the most extensive in the world. Same-sex sexual activity was made lawful in Canada on June 27, 1969, when the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 (also known as Bill C-150) was brought into force upon royal assent. In a landmark decision in 1995, Egan v Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada held …

Nova Scotia (Latin for New Scotland; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada, and its capital, Halifax, is a major economic centre of the region.Nova Scotia is the second smallest province in Canada, with an area of 55,284 km 2.

Quebec (/ k (w) ɪ ˈ b ɛ k / k(w)ih-BEK; French: Québec ()) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population.Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. ...

In 2011, just under 21.5 million Canadians, representing 65% of the population, spoke English most of the time at home, while 58% declared it their mother language. English is the major language everywhere in Canada except Quebec and Nunavut, and most Canadians (85%) can speak English. While English is not the preferred language in Quebec, 36.1% of Québécois …

Black Nova Scotians (also known as African Nova Scotians, Afro-Nova Scotians or Indigenous Blacks; Miꞌkmaq: Antaguejg) are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, later arriving in Nova Scotia, Canada, during the 18th and early 19th centuries. As of the 2016 Census of Canada, 21,915 Black people live in …

Canada has a highly sophisticated energy industry and is both an importer and exporter of oil and refined products. In 2006, in addition to producing 1.2 billion barrels (190 × 10 ^ 6 m 3), Canada imported 440 million barrels (70 × 10 ^ 6 m 3), consumed 800 million barrels (130 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) itself, and exported 840 million barrels (134 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) to the U.S. The excess of exports …

Note: Statistics Canada defines visible minorities as defined in the Employment Equity Act which defines visible minorities as "persons, ... when it had a negative interprovincial migration for 5 consecutive years. Interprovincial migration in British Columbia In-migrants Out-migrants Net migration 2009–10 49,469 40,741

Petroleum production in Canada is a major industry which is important to the economy of North America. Of that amount, 64% was upgraded and non-upgraded bitumen from oil sands, and the remainder light crude oil, heavy crude oil and natural-gas condensate. Canada is by far the largest single source of oil imports to the United States, providing 43% of US crude oil imports …