Croatian Canadians are

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citizens who are of

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descent. The community exists in major cities including the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton,

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Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...

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Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...

, Windsor,

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and

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. Popular events celebrated in the Croatian-Canadian community include the Canadian-Croatian Folklore Festival (held in eastern and western Canada) and the

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Demographics

There were approximately 114,880

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of Croatian ethnic origin as reported in the 2011 Census compiled by Statistics Canada, rising to 133,965 by the 2016 Census. Although predominantly found in Ontario, Croatian Canadians are present in most major Canadian cities throughout the country. The ten largest Croatian communities are found in the following cities: *

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most pop ...

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,: 13,670 * Hamilton, Ontario: 10,110 * Mississauga, Ontario: 9,935 *

,: 5,575 *

,: 4,175 * Oakville,: 4,045 *

,: 3,890 *

,: 3,540 *

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,: 3,225 *

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,: 3,000 The town with the largest percentage of people of Croatian ethnic origin is Kenaston,

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- 17.5% of its 285 inhabitants claim

ethnic origin. Statistics Canada also designates

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s in the collection of its data. The ten Census Metropolitan Areas with the highest concentration of Croatian Canadians are: *

Toronto CMA The Greater Toronto Area, commonly referred to as the GTA, includes the City of Toronto and the regional municipalities of Durham, Halton, Peel, and York. In total, the region contains 25 urban, suburban, and rural municipalities. The Greate ...

: 37,460 * Vancouver CMA: 15,670 * Hamilton CMA: 13,655 * Calgary CMA: 6,265 *

CMA: 5,265 *

CMA: 5,230 * Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo CMA: 4,920 *

CMA: 4,135 * Windsor CMA: 3,925 * Niagara CMA: 3,225

Religious affiliation

Most Croatian Canadians are

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who follow the

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of their ancestors in

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and

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. This is in line with the population in Croatia, which is also majority Catholic. A very small minority of Croatians are

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. There is also a very small community of

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who follow Islam, the descendants of those who converted after the 16th century, after the conquest of much of

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by the

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. Communities of

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have historically been negligible in

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Catholicism

In Canada, the first ethnic Croatian parish was established in Windsor in 1950. Soon, parishes were established in Toronto (1951), Hamilton (1958), Vancouver (1967), Winnipeg (1968). Today there are ethnic Croatian parishes and missions in seventeen cities in Canada. One of the most prominent Croatian Catholic parishes is the Queen of Peace Catholic Church in

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. The establishment of the parish began in 1976 when community members, under the guidance of the Franciscan Friars, gathered for one evening to discuss the necessity and logistics of creating a place of gathering and cultural and faith building and preservation for the large Croatian immigrant population. In May 1977, 160 acres of property were purchased by the organizing committee with the specific dedication to Croatian Catholics. In the Norval Croatian Centre, as is in many other Croatian Catholic parishes, brochures, books, CDs and other forms of Croatian media are offered. The Croatian Catholic youth in particular have started and taken part in many faith developments of their own. The Croatian Catholic Youth Group (CCY) is a faith-based group that comes together by schedule to discuss Catholic subjects and strengthen their religious belief. In addition, Mladifest is an annual event started in 2013 by the Queen of Peace Parish and has each year attracted hundreds of young Catholic Croatian to further explore the intersection of their faith and culture. As the event continued to develop over the years, the rotation of it between host parishes started, with the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Mladifest being in Norval, 2016 in Sacred Heart, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2017 in Immaculate Heart of Mary, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018 in Croatian Martys Church, Mississauga, Ontario, and 2019 in Saint Nicholas Tavelic, Montreal, Quebec. It is an event funded by each parishes' members donations and contributions to bake sales, banquets and other events held to amass funds.

Other Christian

While an overwhelming percentage of Croatians in Canada remain Roman Catholic, there are non-Catholic populations, including

(most of whom have been in Canada for more than one generation) and

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canoni ...

(the majority of whom are of mixed ethnic background).

Islam

Previously unorganized Croats of the Muslim faith, with the arrival of eminent physician

Asaf Duraković Asaf Duraković (16 May 1940 – 16 December 2020) was a Croatian medical doctor. He is also known for his poetry and verses. Duraković was born in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina and educated at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia where ...

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Fikret Artuković: Toronto slavi 35 godina hrvatske džamije (picture) founded the Croatian Islamic Centre on June 23, 1973 in

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(75 Birmingham Street, Etobicoke, ON M8V 2C3), helped by the Croatian Catholic community.Vinko Grubisic: Croatians in Toronto, From: Polyphony Vol.6, 1984 pp. 88-91
An old Catholic school was bought for 75,000 CAD and readjusted into

masjid A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers (sujud) are performed, in ...

. Since the old building was in bad condition, a new mosque was built on the site of the old one in 1983. Today, given changing political affiliations and political pressures from 1990's, and influx of non-Croat option of Bosnian Muslims, the center is now known as the Bosnian Islamic Centre. Despite that, today 4 out of 64 Canadian mosques have the attribute "Croatian". In Croatian Islamic Centre the children are taught the Croatian and Arabic languages, but there also Croatian Islamic newspapers, books, brochures, etc. Croatian Islamic Center called on Muslim governments, organisations, and individuals to press the Yugoslav regime, to end the persecution of Islam and to grant genuin equality of Muslims in Yugoslavia. The director of Centre Kerim Reis wanted that Belgrade releases the Muslim prisoners of conscience and to end to restrictions on the building of mosques. During Yugoslavia, this group often spoke accused Tito's Yugoslavia for practising discrimination both Muslim and Catholic Croats.Google Books
Paul R. Magocsi,Multicultural History Society of Ontario: Encyclopedia of Canada's peoples

Notable Croatian Canadians

Businesspeople

Robert Herjavec Robert Herjavec (; ; born September 14, 1962) is a Croatian-Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality. Herjavec founded BRAK Systems, a Canadian integrator of Internet security software, and sold it to AT&T Canada (now Allstrea ...

- CEO of the Herjavec Group, one Canada's most prominent technology companies *

Tihomir Orešković Tihomir "Tim" Orešković (; born 1 January 1966) is a Croatian Canadian businessman who was Prime Minister of Croatia from January to October 2016. Born in Zagreb, Orešković emigrated to Canada at a young age and spent most of his life there. ...

- 11th

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Politicians

Eve Adams Eve Adams ( Horvat; born November 7, 1974) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Mississauga—Brampton South from 2011 to 2015. She was elected as a member of the Conservative Part ...

- Liberal MP, Missisauga-Brampton South; born Eve Horvat to Hungarian-Croat parents *

Bob Bratina Robert Bratina (born 1944) is a Canadian politician and former broadcaster who was the 56th mayor of Hamilton from 2010 to 2014. Previously, he sat on the Hamilton City Council from 2004 until 2010. He went on to be the Liberal member of Parl ...

- former Mayor of Hamilton, 2010–2014; Liberal MP, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek 2015–present * Jan Brown - former Reform/Independent MP Calgary Southeast, 1993-1997 *

Allan Kerpan Allan Edward Joseph Kerpan (born 1954) is a Canadian politician. He is the current interim deputy leader of the Maverick Party, a right-wing Western Canadian separatist party. Life and career Kerpan was born on 9 December 1954 in Kenaston, ...

- Saskatchewan Party MLA, Carrot River Valley, 2003–present; former Reform MP, Moose Jaw-Lake Centre, 1993-2000 *

Janko Peric Janko Perić (born February 24, 1949), is a former Canadians, Canadian politician. Perić was the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party MP for the riding of Cambridge (electoral district), Cambridge from 1993 to 2004. He was born in Orehovica, ...

- former Liberal MP, Cambridge, 1993-2004 * Peter Sekulic – former Alta Liberal MLA, Edmonton Manning, 1993-1997 *

Roseanne Skoke Roseanne Skoke (born September 11, 1954) was the Liberal MP for the riding of Central Nova from 1993 to 1997. Political career Central Nova had been considered a safe Progressive Conservative riding, but its popular MP, Elmer MacKay, did not ...

- former Liberal MP, Central Nova, 1993-1997 * John Sola - former Liberal MPP, 1987–1995 *

Dave Stupich David Daniel Stupich (5 December 1921 – 8 February 2006) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for most years from the 1960s to the 1980s, and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. Stupich wa ...

- former NDP MP, Nanaimo-Cowichan 1988-1993; former B.C. NDP MLA, 1963-1969; 1972-1988 * Ruža Tomašić - police officer and politician, Member of the European Parliament *

Berry Vrbanovic Berry Vrbanovic (born August 19, 1966) is a Croatian Canadian politician who has served as mayor of Kitchener, Ontario since the 2014 municipal election. Berry attended St. Jerome's High School, and graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University wit ...

- mayor of

, 2014–present;

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lor, 1994-2014;

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candidate for

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in the

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. *

Lynne Yelich Lynne Yelich, (née Zdunich; born March 24, 1953) is a Canadian politician and was the Conservative MP for the former riding of Blackstrap and predecessor riding components, from 2000 to 2015. Life and career Yelich was born in Saskatoon, S ...

- Canadian Alliance/Conservative MP, Blackstrap, 2000–2015

Scientists

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- physician and expert in nuclear medicine and depleted uranium; poet

Arts and entertainment

Michael Bublé Michael Steven Bublé ( ; born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian singer. A four-time Grammy Award winner, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songb ...

- singer *

Steve Bacic Steve Bacic ( ; hr, Bačić ) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing the characters Gaheris and Telemachus Rhade on the Sci-Fi series '' Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda''. After guest starring in seasons 1-3 as both characters, he joined th ...

- actor *

Frank Cvitanovich Frank Cvitanovich (14 August 1927 – 12 August 1995) was a Canadian documentary film maker, who made much of his best work for British television. Early years Cvitanovich was born in Vancouver, the son of a Croat immigrant. His father founded h ...

- documentary filmmaker *

Ivan Hrvatska Ivan Hrvatska is a Croatian singer living in Canada, known for his songs about "making love" to national holidays of Canada and the United States. He first gained attention in 2001 with the song "First I Make Love to You, Then I Make Love to Chris ...

- singer *

Alicia Josipovic '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada a ...

- actor *

Stana Katic Stana Katic (; born ) is a Canadian-American actress and producer. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series ''Castle'' (2009–2016) and Agent Emily Byrne in the thriller series ''Absentia'' (2017–2020). Early life ...

- actor *

Josip Novakovich Josip Novakovich (Croatian: ''Novaković'') is a Croatian Canadian writer. Early life and education Josip Novakovich was born in Yugoslavia (in 1956) and grew up in the central Croatian town of Daruvar. Novakovich studied medicine at the Univers ...

- writer * Daniella Pavičić - singer and songwriter *

Teresa Toten Teresa Toten (born October 13, 1955) is a Canadian writer. The daughter of a Canadian father and a Croatian mother, she was born in Zagreb and left with her parents for Canada on the day she was born. They settled in Delhi; her father died when ...

- writer

Athletes

* Nikola Andrijević - soccer player * Sandra Bezić -

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* Val Bezić - figure skater *

Željko Bilecki Željko Bilecki (April 28, 1950 – April 26, 2023) was a Canadian association football, soccer player who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Club career Bilecki played at the youth level with Toronto Croatia, Toronto ...

- soccer player *

Joseph Cattarinich Joseph Jean Étienne Stanislas Cattarinich (November 13, 1881 – December 7, 1938), was a Canadian professional Ice hockey player, and co-owner of horse racing tracks in Canada and the United States as well as a co-owner of the Montreal Canadie ...

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player *

George Chuvalo George Louis Chuvalo, CM (born September 12, 1937 as Jure Čuvalo) is a Canadian former professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight title challenger. He is known for having never been kno ...

- boxer * Nick Dasović - soccer player *

Great Antonio Antonio Barichievich (October 10, 1925 – September 7, 2003), was a Croatian-Canadian strongman, professional wrestler, and eccentric, better known by his ring name The Great Antonio. He was a popular local figure in Montreal until his death. ...

- strength athlete *

Tony Hrkac Anthony John Hrkac (; born July 7, 1966) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player of Croatian and Ukrainian ancestry who played eighteen seasons of professional hockey. Playing career Collegiate Hrkac was drafted in the second round, ...

- hockey player *

Dejan Jakovic Dejan Jakovic ( sr-Cyrl, Дејан Јаковић, ; born 16 July 1985) is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a centre-back for the Serbian White Eagles. Internationally, he represented the Canada national team from 2008 to 2018. Early li ...

- soccer player *

Ante Jazić Ante Jazić (born February 26, 1976) is a Canadian retired soccer player. Club career Youth Growing up in Bedford, Jazić started his soccer career as a youth player for Scotia Soccer Club. As a senior level, he played for one the nation's st ...

- soccer player * Dan Kordić - hockey player * John Kordić - hockey player *

Frank Mahovlich Francis William Mahovlich CM (born January 10, 1938) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and a former Liberal Senator in the Canadian Senate. He played on six Stanley Cup-winning teams and is an inductee of the Hockey Hall of ...

- hockey player *

Peter Mahovlich Peter Joseph Mahovlich (born October 10, 1946) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, coach and executive. Known in his playing years as "Little M", as his older brother Frank was the "Big M", Mahovlich played in the National Hockey ...

- hockey player *

Tony Mandarich Ante Josip "Tony" Mandarich (born September 23, 1966) is a Canadian former American football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He was selected second overall by the Green Bay Packers in the 1989 ...

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player * Phil Oresković - hockey player *

Matt Pavelich Matt Pavelich (born March 12, 1934) is a Canadian retired former National Hockey League ice-hockey linesman, the first to ever be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987. After his career as an NHL linesman, Pavelich served as Supervisor of ...

- hockey player * George Pesut - hockey player * Brian Sakić - hockey player * Joe Sakić - hockey player *

Cory Sarich Cory Sarich (born August 16, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He last played for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League (NHL). Sarich was a second round selection, 27th overall, of the Buffalo Sabr ...

- hockey player * Paul Spoljarić -

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player * Marc-Édouard Vlasić - hockey player *

Bo Horvat Bowie William Horvat (born April 5, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected ninth overall in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. During his junior caree ...

- hockey player

Political activists

Madeline-Ann Aksich Madeline-Ann Aksich, (1956 – September 25, 2005) was a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, artist and founder of the International Children's Institute. On May 1, 2001 she was appointed to the Order of Canada for her humanitarian work. ...

Gojko Šušak Gojko Šušak (; 16 March 1945 – 3 May 1998) was a Croatian politician who held the post of Ministry of Defence (Croatia), Minister of Defence from 1991 to 1998 under President Franjo Tuđman. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Minister of Emigration ...

Other

* Mato Dukovac - World War II fighter ace *

Zvonko Vranesic Zvonko Vranesic (born 4 October 1938) is a Croatian– Canadian International Master of chess, and an International Master of Correspondence Chess. He is an electrical engineer, a university professor, and a developer of computer chess software ...

- Master of Chess * George "Stan Stasiak" Stipich - professional wrestler

References

External links

History of Croatian Canadians

Statistics Canada
{{Croatian diaspora *

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