Cultures · region shelf 03 of 05
South& East Asiain Ottawa.
China and India are the two largest birthplaces on the city's immigrant list, India leads the arrivals of 2016 to 2021, and Mandarin and Cantonese together are the mother tongue of more Ottawa residents than any other non-official language except Arabic. This shelf holds the communities behind those lines.
Census 2021, Statistics Canada · one draft open, seven names unwritten
What the census counts here.
Four census categories cover this shelf, and the largest two are the largest in the city after Black. Two more sit under them: 4,120 residents counted as Korean and 2,315 counted as Japanese.
All figures · Census 2021, Statistics Canada
| Country of birth | All immigrants in Ottawa | Rank | Arrived 2016–2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| China | 20,320 | 1st | 3,225 · third among recent arrivals |
| India | 16,200 | 2nd | 5,645 · first among recent arrivals |
| Philippines | 10,505 | 5th | 2,105 · fourth among recent arrivals |
| Viet Nam | 6,155 | 9th | Below the top ten for those five years |
Mandarin is the second non-official mother tongue in Ottawa with 22,155 speakers and Cantonese the fourth with 10,045. The city's two largest birthplaces are on this shelf, and the country leading its newest arrivals is here as well.
Census 2021, Statistics Canada · mother tongue and place of birth, city of Ottawa
The communities on this shelf.
Eight names to begin with, drawn from the birthplace and language tables above and from the roll-call of communities that already cook in this city. One has a draft; the others are open, and the community that writes to us first goes next.
Stamps · a draft you can read, or a page still to be written
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
Born in China, the largest birthplace in Ottawa
First on the city's list of immigrant birthplaces, with India second at 16,200. India also leads the arrivals of 2016 to 2021 with 5,645 people, so this shelf describes the settled city and the newest one at the same time.
Census 2021, Statistics Canada · country of birth, city of Ottawa
Where the counting stops.
A census category as wide as South Asian holds many countries and many languages inside one line, and the same is true of Southeast Asian. Sizes for Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Pakistani Ottawa are absent from the tables quoted above.
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.Africa
The largest and youngest racialized group in the city, and the shelf with the most left to write. 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.
Two cities, one shelf.
The two largest birthplaces in Ottawa stand on this shelf and one article of the eight is written. The next one goes to whoever writes to us first, and it stays online long after the tents come down.