Can you name the the most prevalent countries of origin of foreign-born residents of Canada (2006)?

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Foreign-Born Population: Canada Quiz

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Created by: brs -
Contributed: October 29th, 2009
Published: March 16th, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 86,615

Tags: Population Quizzes, Canada Quizzes, Country Quizzes, origin, foreign, resident, 2006, immigrant, immigration, canadian

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	tani:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 04:18 GMT	19 points
	Being from Canada definitely helped on a couple of the least guessed.

	rockhopperlad:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT	35 points
	I'd have thought that the USA would have been higher on the list. I know I've thought about moving there occasionally.

	sporcalicious:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 05:06 GMT	41 points
	I guess all those people threatening to move to Canada if Bush got reelected didn't actually mean it.

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	A_Trep:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 05:14 GMT	-3 points
	Everyone's always hatin' on Dubya...

	OldmanHerbert:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 06:00 GMT	11 points
	Im from toronto so i guessed mostly asian and middle eastern nations and got most

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	Freddie:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 06:35 GMT	9 points
	Wow, bonus answer Hong Kong gets into 7th place...Being in Vancouver, made the quiz rather easy for me: guessed loads of Asian countries with a healthy dose of East European countries.

	msreicher:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 07:58 GMT	6 points
	tricky list. i mean you've got the lebanese,guyanese...even the trinidad and tobagans

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	elephant_stone:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 10:35 GMT	3 points
	Canada doesn't have a whole lot of Africans, does it?

	Commodore:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 12:08 GMT	11 points
	Anyone remember the Foster Hewitt's broadcasts of Leaf games, "Coming to you from high atop Maple Leaf Gardens, good evening hockey fans across Canada and NEWFOUNDLAND!"

	Kicking222:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 12:24 GMT	14 points
	Wow, holy crap, I am at work, and I came across the name of a Vietnamese doctor in Canada, and- swear to god, this happened not two minutes ago- I thought to myself, "Hmm, I wonder how many people of Asian descent live in Canada." Sporcle, stop reading my brainwaves!

	mdalloway:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 12:33 GMT	7 points
	Yes, being a Canadian definitely helps with this one. I simply went through all of my school friends from growing up and got most of the trickier ones. @elephant stone: Nope, not really. Blacks only make up 2.5% of our population, and most of those are either American or Caribbean. To compare, the Chinese population alone is 3.7%.

	RCHPfan96:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 12:57 GMT	0 points
	Eh, this quiz was mighty hard, don't ya know?

	davidr:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 13:17 GMT	7 points
	@Freddie: Remember that Hong Kong is part of China now so, if Hong Kong were included as a full answer, the China total would have to drop.

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	Havok3595:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 13:31 GMT	8 points
	@davidr: I think he meant the population of Chinese descent, the number in the quiz is only the population born in China.

	C_W_Browne:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 13:35 GMT	8 points
	I'd have thought France would be higher. Shows what I know.

	schulace:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 14:13 GMT	9 points
	What the El Salvador?

	cntower:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 15:15 GMT	3 points
	I can't believe I forgot France

	jaypunkrawk:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 15:29 GMT	2 points
	Well I missed the three most missed. Not too shabby I guess.

	JWC:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 15:41 GMT	4 points
	I expected Haiti to be higher, they're a sizable minority in Montreal.

	disseminator:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 15:46 GMT	2 points
	I'm amazed that a country as small as Sri Lanka is on here above something like Spain or Japan

	elnok:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 16:00 GMT	13 points
	Spain and Japan don't have the internal strife Sri Lanka has. The Japanese visit Canada, the Sri Lankans stay.

	raberbar:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 17:01 GMT	6 points
	Being Canadian, it's funny how I'm sure your regional bias influences your guesses - In Edmonton we definitely have a huge community of people from the horn (Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia). I also guessed Senegal - I would have thought those countries would be on the list before sya, Egypt or El Salvador. My parents' countries are not on the list - I am not surprised - no South American countries... Portugal was a lock - but I was surprised at how high up it was Slightly surprised with no Thailand I thought of Guyana just because of a few friends from there - lucky guess I would have been ashamed if I missed Haiti - thought it would have been higher as well @JWC @mdallway: school friends did help: I got Lebanon, and Sri Lanka quickly that way Great quiz: all in all I've been waiting for this one for a while as you might tell...

	raberbar:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 17:02 GMT	5 points
	Hoping for one of these quizzes for Brazil, and some more European coutries!

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	turner89:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT	15 points
	Yeah! Britain finally wins at something.

	kidcanada:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 18:36 GMT	9 points
	I just tried to guess the ethnicities of my cab drivers around Toronto.

	mdalloway:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 18:46 GMT	1 point
	@davidr @Havok: That is indeed what I meant. :)

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	starvenger:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 21:37 GMT	4 points
	Nice to see Hong Kong as a bonus answer. I've found that Chinese people that emigrate to wherever DO seem make a distinction between HK Chinese and Mainland Chinese. Being first gen CBC, I don't tend to but my parents (from HK) do and many of my former colleagues in the States (from Mainland China) did as well. I think it may be a lingual thing since people from HK speak Cantonese and the majority of Chinese speak Mandarin.

	chikka2:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 23:00 GMT	-3 points
	I think we in this country need to revisit the traditional idea of the Canadian mosaic and shift toward a melting pot idea...Most interesting quiz

	Delphion:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 23:43 GMT	1 point
	Doesn't surprise me that The Netherlands is quite high on the list. Dutch people tend to go to North America end Australia. I expected Belgium to be on the list as well, but there are apparently more people from Sri Lanka, Taiwan, El Salvador and even T&T in Canada. I always miss the Philippines, I forget that so many people live there.

	JonnyWalker:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 00:57 GMT	19 points
	Of course a lot of Russians move to Canada. You can practically see Russia from Alaska and you can just barely see it from Canada.

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	threepipeproblem:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 02:55 GMT	2 points
	I managed to miss the US too... I would say people always miss the blindingly obvious, but the 98.8% who did get it doesn't really support me on that point. Ah, well.