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Western Diaspora

Canada · Toronto

கனடா · டொராண்டோ

Canada · Post-1983 refugee migration

Largest Sri Lankan Tamil refugee resettlement (1970s–2000s). Tamil mother-tongue speakers ~148,000 (Statistics Canada). Home of Chair in Tamil Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough — first Tamil academic chair in Canada (est. 2021, $3M grassroots-funded).

Population — as cited

Tamil mother-tongue speakers ~148,000
Statistics Canada — 2021 Census (mother tongue) · 2021

Community estimate ~200,000–300,000 including non-mother-tongue speakers.

TLTE never aggregates a "Tamil population" or "Tamil GDP" figure. Numbers are cited verbatim from the named source.

Memory custodians

  • ·Chair in Tamil Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

Tamil-language press / cultural bodies

  • · Tamil Osaigal
  • · Tamil Canadian community media

Outlet names only. Never journalist names. See the Press Freedom Desk for protection rationale.

Remittance corridor

Canada → Sri Lanka · India (KNOMAD)

Tamil-specific corridors do not exist in any public dataset. Country-pair via World Bank KNOMAD is the available proxy.

Anchor citations

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