Community Facts
COMMUNITY STATS
In modern times, there have been five major Hispanic immigration waves to Canada, the largest and most recent since 1990 known as ‘Professional wave’. Prior to that, we had the Spaniard wave leaving the Franco regime in the 1940s; followed by the Andean wave mostly from Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia in the 1960s; then the Coup wave in the 1970s leaving dictatorial regimes mostly in Chile, Argentina and Dominican Republic; and the Refugee wave in the 1980s as a result of civil unrest most notably from Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Our influence is on the rise. Approximately 600 million people worldwide speak Spanish making it the 2nd most natively spoken language in the world. The last Canadian Census in 2021 provides the following insights :
- Our community has over a million individuals (1,107,455+)
- Spanish is the 4th single mother tongue language in Canada
- 1,171,455 could conduct a conversation in Spanish
- At 31 years, we are younger than the Canadian average
- We are more likely to be university educated than other Canadians