Definition and notes - Visible minority population, by census metropolitan areas (1996 Census)

Definitions

Visible minority population: The Employment Equity Act defines the visible minority population as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour." The visible minority population includes the following groups: Chinese, South Asian , Black, Arab/West Asian, Filipino, Southeast Asian, Latin American, Japanese, Korean and Pacific Islander.

Census metropolitan area (CMA): a very large urban area (known as the urban core) together with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. A CMA has an urban core population of at least 100,000, based on the previous census.

View definitions for 1996 Census Metropolitan Areas: St. John's , Halifax , Saint John , Saguenay , Québec , Sherbrooke , Trois-Rivières , Montréal , Ottawa–Gatineau Ontario–Quebec , Ottawa-Gatineau (Quebec part) , Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario part) , Kingston , Oshawa , Toronto , Hamilton , St. Catharines–Niagara , Kitchener , London , Windsor , Sudbury, Thunder Bay , Winnipeg , Regina , Saskatoon , Calgary , Edmonton , Abbotsford , Vancouver , Victoria

Notes

1. Visible minority not included elsewhere. Includes respondents who reported a single write-in response indicating a Pacific Islander group (e.g., Fijian or Polynesian) or another single write-in response likely to be a visible minority group (e.g., Guyanese, West Indian).

2. Includes respondents who reported more than one visible minority group.