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Punjabi Canadians are Canadian citizens of Punjabi descent, numbering approximately 950,000 and accounting for roughly 2.6% of Canada's population, as per the 2021 Canadian census. [ b ] Their heritage originates wholly or partly from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan .
In April 2014, Brampton residents expressed anger over a flyer distributed by Immigration Watch Canada targeting the Sikh community. The flyer, named “The Changing Face of Brampton,” featured contrasting images of white people and Sikhs, alongside a message suggesting that declining percentages of "mainstream Canadians" in Brampton was due ...
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. [3] Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
The first census which took place following Canadian Confederation was in 1871 and enumerated the four original provinces including, Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick found that the population with racial origins from South Asia (then-labeled as "Hindu" on the census) stood at 11 persons or 0.0003 percent of the national population, with 8 persons from Ontario, and the remaining ...
Sheela Basrur - former Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health; Nuvraj Singh Bassi - professional football player; Robin Bawa - played for several NHL teams and in minor leagues; Ishq Bector - HipHop/R&B musician and composer; Rajat Bedi - Bollywood actor-turned film producer who settled in Canada
This is a list of people from Brampton, Ontario, Canada.. Note that this list largely does not include players from the Brampton Beast ECHL hockey team. Also not included are people who were post-secondary students who did not live locally before or after, such as Kent Monkman [1] and Patrick McKenna.
Raminder Gill — Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; Ramesh Sangha — Former MP for Brampton Centre; Randeep Sarai — MP for Surrey Centre; Ravi Kahlon — Parliamentary Secretary for Sport and Multiculturalism of British Columbia; Ruby Dhalla — First Sikh women to serve in the House of Commons of Canada. Ruby Sahota — MP of ...
The following people associated with Brampton, Ontario, Canada by birth, residence or career. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.