Canadian citizens
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Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n-born people who reside in
Canada
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. Currently 24,530 people of Estonian descent live in Canada.(according to some sources up to 50,000 people).
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, about 17,000 arrived in Canada.The Estonian Presence in Toronto . Post by Ended Aruia. The city with the largest population of Estonians outside Estonia is
Toronto
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. The first Estonian World Festival was held in Toronto in 1972.
Some notable Estonian Canadians include
Kalle Lasn
Kalle Lasn () (born March 24, 1942) is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor, and activist. Near the end of World War II, his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent some time in a German refugee camp. At age seven he was resettled ...
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Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving (born May 26, 1927) is an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory. Tulving is a professor emerit ...
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Elmar Tampõld
Elmar Tampõld (August 3, 1920 – March 7, 2013) was an
Uno Prii
Uno Prii (February 28, 1924 – November 27, 2000) was an Estonian-born Canadian architect. He designed approximately 250 buildings, many in Toronto, but also around southern Ontario and the United States.
Some of his best-known works are apartme ...
Canadian
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