Journey to Canada

Last week I unfortunately had to miss class because of a work trip to Sudbury Ontario Canada, Sudbury is about a 5 hour drive north west of Toronto.  What does this have to do with Latino Culture you may ask, well actually not much at all.

Sudbury is a city comprised of a group of smaller towns which now is called Greater Sudbury.  Greater Sudbury has a population of 160,000, this community was built on the mining industry.
I checked Wikipedia for the demographics of the area and found that there is a very small to almost non-existent population of people with Hispanic/Latino decent.  Below is a chart from the Wiki page for Sudbury Ontario, as you can see there are no Latinos mentioned which means there are very few in the region.

Reported ethnic origins, 2006 Ethnic origin Population[38] Percent[note 1] Canadian 64,345 41.2 French 62,460 40.0 English 35,715 22.9 Irish 30,415 19.5 Scottish 26,575 17.0 Italian 13,410 8.6

Reported ethnic origins, 2006 Ethnic origin Population Percent German 12,140 7.8 North American Indian 8,160 5.2 Ukrainian 7,590 4.9 Finnish 7,275 4.7 Métis 6,315 4.0 Polish 4,750 3.0

I took a tour with the Economic Development Director for the city and saw almost no Hispanic/Latino influence in the community, I did see a Mexican restaurant but did not have time to stop to see what nationality owned or ran it, my guess is not a Latino but probably French.

So while my trip to the Great White North didn't produce much in the way of any information regarding people of Hispanic/Latino backgrounds, it did show one thing, and that there is very little documentation of a great population in that part of Canada.  I guess the Latino community is smart enough to stay away from the extreme climate of northern Canada.