- Source: Iranian Canadians
Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians are Canadians of Iranian origin. From the 2016 Canadian census, the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. As of 2016 a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area, 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area, and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area, with the remainder spread out in the other major cities of Canada, based on the 2016 Canadian Census. These numbers represent the people who stated "Iranian" as their single or joint ethnic origin in the census survey.
Terminology
Iranian-Canadian is used interchangeably with Persian-Canadian, partly due to the fact that, in the Western world, Iran was known as "Persia". On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country used since the Sasanian Empire, in formal correspondence. Since then the use of the word "Iran" has become more common in the Western countries. This also changed the usage of the terms for Iranian nationality, and the common adjective for citizens of Iran changed from "Persian" to "Iranian". In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could officially be used interchangeably. However the issue is still debated today.
While the majority of Iranian-Canadians come from Persian backgrounds, there is a significant number of non-Persian Iranians such as Azeris and Kurds within the Iranian-Canadian community, leading some scholars to believe that the label "Iranian" is more inclusive, since the label "Persian" excludes non-Persian minorities. The Collins English Dictionary uses a variety of similar and overlapping definitions for the terms "Persian" and "Iranian".
Demography
= Population
== Immigration
=In 2021, there were 213,160 individuals in Canada who had been born in Iran, of which 70,395 had immigrated to Canada since 2011.
= Religion
=Among all Iranian-Canadians, 103,560 (49%) identified as Muslim. Among immigrants since 2011, about 39,860 (57%) identified as Muslim while most of the rest did not identify with any religion.
Geographical distribution
= Provinces & territories
=British Columbia
North Vancouver (District)
North Vancouver (City)
West Vancouver
Burnaby
Coquitlam
Ontario
Richmond Hill
Vaughan
Markham
Thornhill
Islamic republic politicians/sympathizers
Canada in 2022 banned ten thousand IRGC seniors and officers from entry.
Iranian celebrities and government former ministers and officials are often mentioned in the news residing or traveling in Canada as well.
Notable Canadians of Iranian descent
= Academia
=Payam Akhavan, pioneer in international criminal law and leading human rights advocate; McGill University
Kaveh Farrokh, historian
Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher and university professor
Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor of Medicine; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education; University of Toronto
Reza Zadeh, computer scientist; Stanford University
= Art and literature
=Hossein Amanat, architect, urban designer
Reza Baraheni, novelist, poet, critic, and political activist
Jian Ghomeshi, member of Moxy Früvous; former host of CBC's play; former host of Q on CBC Radio 1
Siamak Hariri, architect
Nazanine Hozar, writer
Ramin Karimloo, West End performer, playing the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the sequel Love Never Dies
Navid Khonsari, video game, film and graphic novel creator, writer, director and producer
Fariborz Lachini, music composer
Nima Mazhari, painter, photographer and husband of ex-Olympic biathlete Myriam Bédard, convicted and sentenced in June 2007 for stealing paintings from the late painter Ghitta Caiserman
Sanaz Mazinani, photographer and curator
Kaveh Nabatian, musician and filmmaker
Marina Nemat, author
Ghazal Omid, nonfiction political writer, nonfiction children's book writer, speaker, NGO executive
Fariborz Sahba, architect
Bardia Sinaee, poet
Parviz Tanavoli, sculptor and painter
Mostafa Keshvari, Director and writer
Anahita Akhavan, painter
= Beauty pageants
=Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Miss Canada 2003, first runner-up of Miss World 2003, actress, singer-songwriter, human rights activist; wife of former Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay
Ramona Amiri, Miss World Canada 2005, semifinalist of Miss World 2005
Samantha Tajik, Miss Universe Canada 2008
= Business
=Ghermezian family, billionaire shopping mall developers
Hassan Khosrowshahi, founder of Future Shop
Karim Hakimi, founder of Hakim Optical
Michael Latifi, founder of Sofina Foods Ltd and owner of Nidala (BVI) Limited which holds a share in the McLaren Group.
Shahrzad Rafati, founder of BroadbandTV Corp
Sam Mizrahi, real estate developer
Shahin Assayesh, publisher
= Crime
=Omid Tahvili, kingpin and international fugitive
= Entertainment
=Mehdi Sadaghdar, YouTube personality, electrical engineer
= Journalism
=Various Persian-language media (including TV and newspapers) are active in Canada, including Shahrvand and Salam Toronto, which cover local events as well.
Maziar Bahari, journalist
Farid Haerinejad, CBC former producer, documentary maker, and editor-in-chief of Radio Zamaneh
Shaya Goldoust, journalist, podcaster, radio host
Zahra Kazemi, photojournalist
Nikahang Kowsar, cartoonist
Touka Neyestani, cartoonist
= Politicians
=Ali Ehsassi, Federal Liberal MP for Willowdale, lawyer
Majid Jowhari, Federal Liberal MP for Richmond Hill, engineer
Amir Khadir, Québec solidaire Former MNA for Mercier, microbiologist
Reza Moridi, Ontario Liberal Former MPP for Richmond Hill, physicist, engineer
= Sport
=Nicholas Latifi, Formula One driver for Williams Grand Prix Engineering
Khashayar Farzam, Powerlifter and Physician
= Technology
=Behdad Esfahbod, programmer and creator of the HarfBuzz text shaping engine
See also
Azerbaijani Canadians
Armenian Canadians
Canadian Society of Iranian Engineers and Architects-Ottawa
Iranian diaspora
Kurds in Canada
Middle Eastern Canadians
West Asian Canadians
Notes
References
External links
PM meets with representatives of the Persian-Canadian community
Iranians of Toronto website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Protes pemilu Iran 2009
- Kewarganegaraan ganda
- Iran Kanada
- Isi bocoran kawat diplomatik Amerika Serikat (Iran)
- Hijab
- Negara Islam Irak dan Syam
- Pemindahan penduduk
- Kronologi pandemi Covid-19 Februari 2020
- Iranian Canadians
- Asian Canadians
- West Asian Canadians
- Canada–Iran relations
- Middle Eastern Canadians
- Embassy of Iran, Ottawa
- Pakistani Canadians
- Iranian diaspora
- French Canadians
- Indian Canadians
