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Japanese Canadians In The Greater Toronto Area
Toronto has a population of Japanese Canadians and also one of Japanese nationals. As of 2010 there are about 20,000 Japanese Canadians in Toronto.Ruprecht, Tony. ''Toronto's Many Faces''. Dundurn, November 8, 2010. , 9781554888856. p238 Adam McDowell of the ''National Post'' stated that Toronto's Japanese community was "never very large compared to, say, the Chinese or Italian communities".McDowell, Adam.Exodus from the East: Wave of Japanese youth finding its way to TorontoArchive. ''National Post''. March 24, 2013. Retrieved on October 16, 2014. Since the mid-2010s, Toronto has a Little Japan, which was formerly the city's first Chinatown. History Two silk workers, Kenji Ishikawa and Shigesaburo Ubukata, appeared in the City of Toronto Directory in 1897; they were the first persons of Japanese heritage to appear in this directory. There were only six Japanese families in Toronto until 1941, when Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted from the Pacific Coast. Politicians in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Canadians
are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in Western Canada, especially in the province of British Columbia, which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around Vancouver. In 2016, there were 121,485 Japanese Canadians throughout Canada. Generations The term Nikkei (日系) was coined by sociologists and encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. Japanese descendants living overseas have special names for each of their generations. These are formed by combining one of the Japanese numerals with the Japanese word for generation (''sei'', 世): *Issei (一世) – The first generation of immigrants, born in Japan before moving to Canada. *Nisei (二世) – The second generation, born in Canada to Issei parents not born in Canada. *Sansei (三世) – The third generation, born in Canada to Nisei parents born in Canada. * Yonsei (四世) – The fourth g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Buddhist Church
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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