Mexican Canadians
Canadiens mexicains
Canadienses mexicanos

Population distribution of Mexican Canadians by census division, 2021 census
Total population
155,380 (less than 0.5% of Canadian residents by ancestry,2021 Census)[1] 90,585 (by birth,2021 Census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Greater Toronto Area •Brampton •Leamington andWindsor area,Ontario •Greater Montreal •Metro Vancouver •Calgary–Edmonton Corridor
Languages
English,French,Spanish, and a minority ofindigenous Mexican languages.
Religion
Roman Catholicism,Protestantism andIndigenous beliefs.
Related ethnic groups
Mexican people,Mestizo,Spanish people,Latinos,American Canadians,Guatemalan Canadians,Native Americans.

Mexican Canadians (Spanish:canadienses mexicanos,French:Canadiens mexicains) areCanadian citizens of Mexican origin, either through birth or ethnicity, who reside inCanada. According to the 2021 Census, 155,380 Canadians indicated they were of full or partial Mexican ancestry (0.42% of the country's population).^[1] They are part of the broaderLatin American Canadian community.

While the Mexican-origin population in Canada is relatively small, Canada has the third largestMexican population after the United States and Mexico. Nevertheless, Canada's Mexican population is far behind that of theUnited States, where, as of 2021, there were 38.2 million people ofMexican ancestry, comprising 12.2% of the population.^[2][3]

As the Canadian Hispanic population is estimated as per 2023 at being over 3% of the population, twice from what it was in 2016, the Mexican population most likely had risen as well along with people of other Latin American groups.

The metropolitan areas with the largest populations of people with Mexico-related origins (2023) are:Montreal (40,795; 3.9%),Greater Toronto Area (60,969; 4.3%),Vancouver (30,995; 2.5%),Calgary (10,965; 1.4%),Edmonton (9,830; 1.3%),Ottawa (5,865; 0.9%).Brampton, a suburb of Toronto contains a growing Mexican community migrating outside of the Toronto city limits.^[4]

While approximately 5,000 people of Mexico origin enter Canada each year as temporary students or contract workers for agriculture. However, these are not counted as immigrants because of their explicitly temporary legal status. Unlike the United States’Bracero program, the temporary-worker program in Canada has various mechanisms to discourage workers from overstaying their permits.^[5]

Migrant workers from Mexico are prevalent inLeamington, Ontario's cucumber and tomato harvesting industry. Leamington has one of the largest Mexico-born communities in Canada.^[6][7] There are 2,700 Mexican immigrants living in Leamington, as of 2011.^[8]

In theOkanagan Valley of British Columbia, Mexico-born labourers are employed in the wine and orchard industries.Kelowna has a sizeable community of Mexico-born.^[9][10][11] In the summer of 2016, about 2,000 of Mexico-origin labourers were working on Okanagan Valley farms.^[12]Langley, British Columbia has a Mexican population working and/or living in town, having a Hispanic grocery store, mainly Mexican, and Central and South American products.^[13]

Population by ancestry by Canadian province or territory

Province	Population (2016)	Population (2021)
Ontario	43,120[14]	54,725[15]
Quebec	26,935[16]	34,310[17]
British Columbia	23,055[18]	28,445[19]
Alberta	22,470[20]	25,450[21]
Manitoba	8,790[22]	7,430[23]
Saskatchewan	2,125[24]	2,620[25]
Nova Scotia	810[26]	930[27]
New Brunswick	695[28]	985[29]
Newfoundland and Labrador	240[30]	135[31]
Prince Edward Island	95[32]	255[33]
Yukon	90[34]	145[35]
Northwest Territories	55[36]	45[37]
Nunavut	10[38]	20[39]
Canada	128,380[40]	155,495[41]

• Canadian Mexicans
• Latin American Canadians
• Spanish Canadians
• Canada–Mexico relations

• Canadian people of Mexican descent
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• Latin American diaspora in Canada
• Mexican diaspora in North America
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