Cultures · region shelf 02 of 05
Africain Ottawa.
The largest racialized group in this city is also the youngest and the fastest growing, and three of the ten places Ottawa's newest residents were born in are on this continent. This shelf has eight names on it and every article still to write.
Census 2021, Statistics Canada · eight names, eight unwritten articles
What the census counts here.
Statistics Canada records a group called Black — 84,770 people in Ottawa, and that single category holds African and Caribbean origins together. The two lines below describe how young that group is and how fast it has grown, and the birthplace table under them is the part of it this shelf is about.
All figures · Census 2021, Statistics Canada
| Country of birth | Arrived 2016–2021 | Rank among those arrivals |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,785 | 5th |
| Burundi | 1,305 | 7th |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1,055 | 8th |
Three of the ten countries that Ottawa's 2016–2021 arrivals were born in sit on this continent, and the group they join is the youngest in the city by more than eleven years. A community with a median age of 27.6 is a community of school runs, first apartments and Saturday leagues, and the encyclopedia is written for the people living all of that.
Census 2021, Statistics Canada · place of birth and age, city of Ottawa
The communities on this shelf.
Eight names to begin with, drawn from the birthplace tables above and from the roll-call of communities that already cook in this city. All eight articles are open, and the community that writes to us first goes next.
Stamps · every page on this shelf is still to be written
Every box on this strip: planned
A marked name has a draft you can read today · the rest wait on the community that writes first · a community missing from this shelf gets added the day it asks
Residents of Ottawa counted as Black
8.5% of the population in private households, and the largest racialized group in the city. The census holds African and Caribbean origins inside that one number, so the shelf below it and the Caribbean shelf on the index both draw from it.
Census 2021, Statistics Canada · racialized groups, city of Ottawa
Where the counting stops.
Ottawa's Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Ghanaian populations each have a size, and the tables quoted above carry none of them. The category is one line for the whole group.
Stated gaps · each one names how it gets settled
Write your community's article.
Every name on this shelf is waiting for somebody inside that community to start.
Open now · the editor answers every letter
The other shelves.
Five regions and one strand that cuts across all of them
Middle East & Maghreb
58,180 residents counted as Arab, and Ottawa's largest non-official mother tongue. Census 2021.South & East Asia
China and India are the two largest birthplaces in Ottawa. Census 2021.Eastern Europe
A century-deep diaspora and a wave the May 2021 census closed too early to count.Latin America
14,350 residents counted as Latin American, and Spanish third among mother tongues. Census 2021.Crafts & kitchens
Trades that belong to more than one community: wax and dye, thread, metal, bread, light.All cultures
The index, the open drafts, and how an article starts.
The largest group in the city.
Eight names stand on this shelf and every page behind them is blank. The first article here is written with whoever writes to us first, and it stays online long after the tents come down.