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Romanian Canadian came to Canada in several periods. The first period was at the beginning of the century, between 1900-1918. The second period was between 1940-1950, when Romanians came after the World War II , at a time when Romania was in the worst and most difficult financial period in its history. In this period, 60,000 Romanian citizens left their country. Another wave of Romanian emigration to Canada was after 1989 following the Romanian Revolution Of 1989 , when people obtained the right to get out of Romania subsequent to the fall of Comunism in Eastern Europe . The wave intensified after the Mineriad of 13-15 June 1990 . Since 2000, for the fourth time, a large number of Romanians are leaving Europe to come to Canada. In 2001 there were 131,830 Canadian residents who identified themselves as of Romanian origin, of which 53,320 were single-origin Romanians and 78,505 were of mixed Romanian and other origins. {Link without Title} The largest concentrations of Romanian-Canadians are in the Greater Toronto Area . and in the Greater Montreal Area . According to the 2001 Census, the number of people of Romanian mother tongue in Canada was 50,895 and 61,330 Canadians claimed to speak Romanian. The number of people born in Romania was 61,330 and 2,380 were born in Moldova . Immigration from Romania had been increasing in recent years. Figures from Citizenship And Immigration Canada show that the annual number of new permanent residents from Romania increased from and average of over 3,700 per year in the late 1990s to an average of over 5,500 per year since 2001. Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada NOTABLE ROMANIAN-CANADIANS
Canadian general, diplomat and peacekeeper John De Chastelain was born in Bucharest to a Scottish father and an American mother. REFERENCES
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