Brazilian Canadian

Brazilian Canadian
Total population
	Brazilian Canadians; 15,000
Regions with significant populations
	Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia
Languages
	Canadian English, Quebec French, Brazilian Portuguese
Religion
	Roman Catholicism, Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
	Brazilian people, Portuguese Canadians, Brazilian Americans, Brazilian British, Brazilian Australians, Latins and other Latin Americans

Brazilian Canadians (French: Canadiens Bresiliens; Portuguese: Brasílico-canadenses) are Canadians of Brazilian descent or Brazilians who have immigrated to Canada. The 1991 Canadian census reports 2,520 individuals of wholly Brazilian origin and another 2,325 who describe Brazilian as one of their ethnic origins (Brazilians themselves may be of varied European, African, Middle Eastern, East Asian and Indigenous Amerindian ethnic origins), giving a total of 4,845. This figure can be taken as an official minimum and corresponds to Brazilian consular estimates.

However, in the 1980s and 1990s a large number of younger Brazilians established families in Toronto. The local newspaper Abacaxi Times estimated that the total number of Brazilians living in Toronto in the 1990s was about 9,000. Probably an equal number of legal immigrants entered Ontario to that date. The total for Canada was 14,976. When refugee claimants and illegal immigrants are added, the total in Ontario alone may approach 12,000, with a few thousand more in Quebec and British Columbia; there are smaller groups scattered across the country. New immigrants have continued to enter the country, but at a much slower pace than in the previous decade.

Demographics[edit]

Number of Brazilian nationals granted permanent residence in Canada by year^[1]
Year	Number of Brazilian nationals admitted	Total number of permanent residents admitted	Proportion of permanent residents admitted
2002	759	229,048	0.3%
2003	865	221,349	0.4%
2004	934	235,823	0.4%
2005	976	262,242	0.4%
2006	1,209	251,640	0.5%
2007	1,759	236,753	0.7%
2008	2,127	247,246	0.9%
2009	2,480	252,174	1%
2010	2,597	280,691	0.9%
2011	1,519	248,748	0.6%