Bangladeshi Canadians (french: Canadiens Bangladais, bn, কানাডীয় বাংলাদেশী, Kanaḍīyô Bangladeshī) are
Canadian citizens
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of Bangladeshi descent, first-generation Bangladeshi immigrants, or descendants of Bangladeshis who immigrated to Canada. The term may also refer to people who hold dual Bangladeshi and Canadian citizenship.
Demographics
While there are no recent official data, however according to the
Statistics Canada
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(2020)
there are 100,000 Bangladeshi origin Canadians. Some references show fewer of Bangladesh origin in Canada. The unofficial number of Bangladeshi Canadians as of 2016 is anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000. , more than 28,000 Bangladeshis lived in the city of Toronto, according to Statistics Canada. Most of the Bangladeshi population is concentrated in the Greater Toronto area
From 2006 to 2018, 40,956 new permanent residents from Bangladesh landed in Canada.
Notable Bangladeshi-Canadians
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Fahd Ananta
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, internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Tab Payments and
Google Chrome
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Doly Begum
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Member of Provincial Parliament for Ontario
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Amit Chakma
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, 10th president of
University of Western Ontario
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Neamat Imam
Neamat Imam ( bn, নেয়ামত ইমাম; born 5 January 1971) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian author of literary fiction. His first novel, '' The Black Coat'', a ''Quill & Quire'' Book of the Year 2016, was published by Penguin Books In ...
, writer
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Mizan Rahman
Mizan Rahman (September 16, 1932 – January 5, 2015) was a Bangladeshi Canadian mathematician and writer. He specialized in fields of mathematics such as hypergeometric series and orthogonal polynomials. He also had interests encompassing lite ...
, mathematician and writer
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Shamit Shome
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Early life
Shome, a Bengali, was born in Edmonton to Bangladeshi parents. He played youth soccer with Edmonton Southwest ...
, soccer player
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Mia Abbas Uddin
Mia Abbas Uddin (1 January 1949 – 28 December 2017) Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He was elected a member of parliament from Bagerhat-4 in 1988.
Early life
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, politician
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Rafiqul Islam, proposer of International Mother Language Day on 21 February
See also
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Asian Canadians
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Bangladesh–Canada relations
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Islam in Canada
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South Asian Canadians
South Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent, which includes the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
The term South Asian ...
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Begum Para, Canada
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References
{{Bangladeshi diaspora
Bangladeshi
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
Asian Canadian
South Asian Canadian
Bangladeshi diaspora by country