<P> Latin Americans comprise a heterogeneous variation of ancestral and racial origins that span from South and North America to Europe, Africa, and Asia . Therefore, a Latin American can be of any race, but the most frequent races found in the region are Mestizos, Whites, Indigenous Americans, Blacks, and Asians </P> <P> The majority of Latin American Canadians are recent immigrants who arrived in the late 20th century from El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Guatemala, with smaller communities from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and elsewhere, with nearly all Latin American countries represented . Reasons for immigrating include Canada's better economic opportunities and politics or civil war and political repression in their native countries, as in the case of Cubans fleeing from the Fidel Castro revolution, Chileans escaping from Augusto Pinochet's rule, Salvadorans fleeing from the Salvadoran Civil War, Peruvians escaping from the Juan Velasco Alvarado dictatorship, Dominicans opposed to the regimes of Rafael Trujillo and Joaquin Balaguer, Mexicans escaping from the Mexican Drug War, Colombians from the violence in their country and Venezuelans opposed to the rule of the Socialist Unity Party . </P> <P> The largest Latin American Canadian communities are in the census metropolitan areas of Toronto (99,290), Montreal (75,400), Vancouver (22,695), Calgary (13,415), and Ottawa (10,630), and there are rapidly growing ones in the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Census </Th> <Th> Latin American population </Th> <Th> Change from previous census </Th> <Th> Total Canadian population </Th> <Th> Change from previous census </Th> <Th> Latin American population (%) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 176,970 </Td> <Td> N / A </Td> <Td> 28,528,125 </Td> <Td> N / A </Td> <Td> 6999600000000000000 ♠ 0.6% </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 216,980 </Td> <Td> 7001226000000000000 ♠ 22.6% </Td> <Td> 29,639,030 </Td> <Td> 7000390000000000000 ♠ 3.9% </Td> <Td> 6999700000000000000 ♠ 0.7% </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2006 </Td> <Td> 304,245 </Td> <Td> 7001402000000000000 ♠ 40.2% </Td> <Td> 31,241,030 </Td> <Td> 7000540000000000000 ♠ 5.4% </Td> <Td> 7000100000000000000 ♠ 1% </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2011 </Td> <Td> 381,280 </Td> <Td> 7001253000000000000 ♠ 25.3% </Td> <Td> 32,852,325 </Td> <Td> 7000520000000000000 ♠ 5.2% </Td> <Td> 7000120000000000000 ♠ 1.2% </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2016 </Td> <Td> 447,325 </Td> <Td> 17.3% </Td> <Td> 34,460,065 </Td> <Td> 4.9% </Td> <Td> 1.3% </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Toronto montreal and ____ are the three cities with the largest hispanic population in canada