they weren't allowed in the country. for decades....
and, you see the giant change between 1971 and 1981 and the high rate of growth since.
and, this is another stat that floors people.
we saw that there were 1,198,540 black canadians in the 2016 census.
749,155 identify as "caribbean canadians", meaning they came here not from the united states but from countries like jamaica. that's 63%.
384,875 were actually born in africa. that's 32%.
so, 95% of african canadians either came from the caribbean, or from africa directly.
well, surely some are american, right?
not many. not for a long time. in fact, as a source of immigration, the united states is folded into the "rest of the americas" category, which, as you can see, is statistically very small.
if you're bad at geography and prefer a picture:
in fact, 623,195 were born in their country of origin. that is, a whopping 52% of black canadians were born elsewhere, and migrated here in their existing lifetimes. and almost all the rest are their kids...
these are just the facts.