Igbo Canadians are citizens of

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that are of full or partial Igbo descent. The Igbo are an ethnic group from Nigeria. According to the

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, the number of people who identified as Igbo was 18,315. Some Igbo people may have identified as Nigerian. There were 51,835 people who self identified as

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in the 2016 census. Additionally, 18,315 people identified Igbo as their mother tongue and 8,850 people said that they had some knowledge of Igbo. Some are descendants of African American slaves who escaped using the Underground Railroad.

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