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Canada

Kurds in Canada: a history

Refugees came from Türkiye, Iraq and Iran from the 1980s, and from Syria from 2015. Communities live in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and London, Ontario.

02Figures

23,130

Kurdish ethnic origin, 2021

Statistics Canada 98-10-0355 via The Canadian Encyclopedia Secondary source
about 50,000

community estimate

The Canadian Encyclopedia Secondary source

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