![]() Aboriginal Canadians made up 1.3 percent of the population. Going back to the 1921 census, only 0.8 percent of population were made up of people of Asian origin, whereas 0.2 percent of the population were black. The three largest visible minority groups were South Asians (25 percent), Chinese (21.1 percent), and blacks (15.1 percent). This was up from 16.2 percent in the 2006 census (Statistics Canada 2013). The 2011 census noted that visible minorities made up 19.1 percent of the Canadian population, or almost one out of every five Canadians. This is a contentious term, as we will see below, but it does give us a way to speak about the growing ethnic and racial diversity of Canada. Visible minorities are defined as “persons, other than aboriginal persons, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour” (Statistics Canada 2013, p.
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