Blacks in Vancouver ?

Question

im a black male, teen from Oakland, CA i grew up in a black hood. and in most of the bay area or california whites are the minority but my parents want to move to vancouver canada because they want to leave the hood. are there any blacks in vancouver ? if so where

Answer 1

Just "wanting " to move to any part of Canada, is NOT enough.



BOTH of your Parents MUST apply and qualify as Immigrants, before they can move to Canada.



Their applications will be approved. or not, based on their formal educational levels, and their past employment history. Canada is looking for people who have a University degree, or who are a certified trades persons, such as a automotive mechanic, welder, carpenter , of the like.



It is a competition, and only the best are selected. The application process takes at least two years, to be completed, so don't pack your bags yet.



And finally, black people in Vancouver are a very small minority, less than one percent of the population of that city, and many of them are from Africa, or the Caribbean, not the USA.



Jim B



Toronto.

Answer 2

Sorry just WANTING to move is not enough. Why would Canada want you? or your parents?

http://can-am.gc.ca/visas/index.aspx?lang=eng



Blacks do not form a significant portion of the local population.



Neighbourhoods in Vancouver are segregated more on income than on skin colour.



White is not the majority.



Try this page for British Columbia

http://www.welcomebc.ca/Immigrate/About-the-BC-PNP.aspx



Black 20,670

Total Population 2,097,965

http://citystats.ca/city/British-Columbia/Vancouver.html#demographics



If any in your family have a criminal record it will be difficult to immigrate.

Answer 3

There are no "hoods" in Vancouver, and certainly none for blacks. Vancouver is about 50% non-European, mostly Oriental, and South-Asian (Indian, Pakistani, etc.). People in Canada live wherever they like, based on what they can afford.



There are blacks in Vancouver, but, they live wherever they want to.

Answer 4

Vancouver has a much smaller black population than most other Canadian cities do. Black people make up 0.9% of the city's population, compared with 9.1% in Montreal, 8.5% in Toronto, 3.8% in Edmonton, 2.9% in Calgary, 2.7% in Winnipeg, and 2.0% in Ottawa.



Most Canadian towns and cities aren't very segregated. They may have some neighborhoods with lots of black people, but there aren't many with all black neighborhoods like US cities have. I don't think Vancouver has any black neighborhoods. The black people are probably scattered all over the place.



The most segregated part of Canada is Nova Scotia, where Canada's historical black community (before large-scale immigration from the Caribbean and Africa from the 1960s onward) was centered. Over there black people make up 2.3% of the province's total population. But they only make up 0.8% of the population of the city of Halifax. Meanwhile in the town of Preston (especially North Preston), a few miles north Halifax, black people make up 69.4% of the population. That is the largest concentration of black people in Canada.

Answer 5

There are very few blacks in Vancouver and the few there are do not live in any particular area.

Answer 6

They're everywhere. And you're lucky because I'm 15 and I really want to move to Vancouver.

Answer 7

Mixed in with everyone else. Canadians don't go for ghettoes or hoods.