Talk:Indo-Canadians/Archive 1

One small mistake in an otherwise excellent article : Ontario politician Khalil Ramal is NOT an Indo-Canadian ,but of Lebanese descent.

miro nair

he was born in india and based in new york, yet somehow hes indo canadian.

Indo?canadian

Or should it be Indian Canadian?Harrypotter 18:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Indo-Canadian is the conventional term in Canada. It's not a pejorative term, as far as I know it's equally accepted among Canadians of South Asian cultural heritage and others.--Anchoress 08:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll confirm what Anchoress says. It is a well-known and commonly accepted term, and is in no way pejorative. --GoldKanga 06:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Indo?Caribbean

Hyper hifinatation is getting unruly ~

Okay this is getting quite confusing now! People of Indian descent in the Caribbean were called Indo Caribbean or Indo Guyanese, or Indo Trinidadian to be differentiated from people of African descent, or from Creoles. Multiculturalism happened in the Caribbean much earlier than any other part of the World. It was the first multi-culture region in the world.

So how can Indo Caribbeans now be lumped in with other "Asians" from the Indian subcontinent when they have their own distinct Caribbean culture and do not speak any of the languages. So are they now called Indo-Caribbean-Indo-Canadian?

Article Clean-Up

I rewrote some of the awkward sentences, but the article still seem to lack depth. It seems to trail off at the end.

280,000 Indo-Canadian?

Is that all? Where did this number come from? I thought there was close to that number just in the Lower Mainland of BC.--Anchoress 08:57, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I think I just answered my own question. I went to the Demographics of Canada page, and it said the 2001 census registered that 2.5%, or 750,000 identified as East Indian, and lower down it said that there are an estimated 950,000 Indo-Canadians in Canada, as of 2001.--Anchoress 09:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah the Demographics of Canada page seems to have its information wrong since I have visited Statistics Canada (the official government body in charge of demographic statistics in Canada), and looked under the official census conducted in 2001, and have found out that there were 713 000 respondents that classified themselves as being East Indian (same thing as Indo Canadian). I have added this information with a web link reference (http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo26a.htm look under the term East Indian in the Table) at the bottom of the page. I also looked this number up in my Canadian Geography Textbook and it is the same number. The number 280 000 is actually the number of Sikhs in Canada, according to the 2001 census. The number 950 000 is actually the number of South Asians in canada, not just Indo-Canadians. It looks like the Demographics of Canada Page needs some revising. --Parihav 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the fix. I thought it was fishy that there were two different numbers, which is why I didn't change it in this article. Thanks for the detective work.--Anchoress 00:08, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Big copyedit: questions and justifications

Canada statistics as on 2006, the population of Indo Canadian has been shown as 962,665 Kanayalal Raina, Brampton I just did a big copyedit of this page. Below are comments on some of my changes/deletions, and also questions about some stuff I think should be fixed but I don't know how. PLEASE if you don't like some of my changes, don't blanket-revert; I did a LOT of typo fixing, it would be a shame to lose it. If my changes have inadvertently changed the meanings of anything other editors wanted to convey, I apologise and ask that they be fixed individually rather than reverted. I know I should have done the typos first and other edits separately, but I'd gotten about 2/3 of the way through before I realised I was doing more than just fixing typos.

Here are some comments about my changes:

• I standardised 'Indo Canadian' and 'Indo-Canadian' to the latter since that's in the title
• I standardised 'middle eastern' to 'Middle Eastern'
• I *tried* to standardise the expression of large numbers, but I don't know if I was successful. Most instances of ### ### were made ###,###. There may be some ###, ###s left over that I didn't fix

I fixed the remaining ones

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

And some questions:

1. From 'Reasons for moving': On their subsequent journey home, they visited the western coast of Canada, primarily British Columbia which at the time was very sparsely populated and the Canadian government wanted to settle in order to prevent a takeover of the territory by the United States.

• I don't understand it, and 'they visited the western coast of Canada, primarily British Columbia' is illogical because BC is the *only* province on the West Coast of Canada.

2. MSWord says 'diaspora' should be capitalised. Is this true?

:3. From 'Initial settlement': The restrictions by the Canadian government increased, and policies were put in place to prevent Indians with the right to vote in general elections.

• Unclear. Were the policies put in place to prevent Indians from gaining the right to vote, or to prevent Indians who already had the right to vote from voting?

Read over this excerpt on a website by www.harbourpublishing.com/excerpt/BecomingCanadians/267 by Harbour Publishing, it explains the details on disenfranchisement of Indo-Canadians. It most closely fits with your suggestion about stripping the right to vote away from Indo-Canadians:

As British subjects, Sikhs had the right to vote in all elections. This was viewed as posing a threat to the existing government, since it meant that a significant block of votes - there were 5,000 Sikhs - might go to another political party more sensitive to human rights, immigration and fair play. So in 1907, the government of British Columbia passed a bill to disenfranchise all natives of India not born of Anglo-Saxon parents. Sikhs were denied the municipal, the provincial and then the federal right to vote, even though they were British subjects. The implications of these actions were far-reaching. Until 1947, South Asians would remain excluded from the political process in British Columbia and from becoming Canadian Citizens. They could not vote for or become school trustees or trustees of improvement districts; neither could they be elected from provincial public office or serve on juries. Although exclusion from the voter’s list did not legally restrict Sikhs from public service, this became the rule. Public works contracts specified that they not be employed. The same restriction applied to the sale of Crown timber, and many professions such as law and pharmacy were informally closed to them.

I have included some of this information and made the necessary adjustments in the article

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

4a. From 'Recent settlement'(my new version): In the 1980s and early 1990s, tens of thousands of immigrants continued to move from India into Canada. According to Statistics Canada, since the late 1990s roughly 25 000-30 000 Indians arrive each year (which is now the second highest group immigrating to Canada each year, behind Chinese immigrants who are the highest group).

4b. From 'Recent settlement'(original version): In the 1980s and early 1990s, tens of thousands of immigrants continued to move from India into Canada. According to Statistics Canada, since the late 1990s roughly 25 000-30 000 Indians arrive each year (which is now the second highest group immigrating to Canada each year, behind Chinese immigrants who are the highest group).

• The top version is my 'fixed' version, which I'm not totally happy with. Below it is the original, which I think needs fixing.

5. From 'Indians from the UK and America': Indians move for economic prospects to Canada's economy and job market has been performing well against many European and some American states. Indians move also due to arranged marriages that are carried by families or by internet matrimonial websites, or by non arranged marriages. Lastly, individuals have decided to settle in Canada in order to reunite their family who may have settle in both America and UK and not in Canada.

• I think this should either be supported by evidence (and re-worded) or deleted.

I will try and get some backup evidence for this section I wrote. If you visit some of the matrimonial website such as http://www.shaadi.com, and read over some of the wedding success stories and matrimonials, people from Canada do get married to other Indians throughout the world, and some of these couples opt to have one partner settle with them in Canada. I have had many cousins and friends get married in this fashion. In terms of families being reunited and economic prospects, this is a matter of my own personal background since I am an Indo-Canadian that has moved from the UK, and have had family members who live elsewhere such as in the UK and America settle in Canada. Although this might seem rare, I have met many others like myself who either remain in Canada or move to America in order to live close with their families. The reason why this occurs is due to the fact that some siblings and cousins only get permission to immigrate to one particular country, not necessarily the country of choice. Therefore after spending several years apart, some families may choose to move to the same country, such as Canada. I will try to obtain other cases to make this statement more valid since I know my personal accounts do not make these statements valid alone.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, looking back it isn't the worst case of editorialising, I withdraw my protest. :-) However, as I said below, this could be a really spankin' article, but we'd need references for a lot of the 'conclusions' as to why things happened the way they did (even though a lot of it is common sense and I don't think you're wrong in your analysis).--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

6. Indians from the Middle East Section

• I hope I understood and edited this correctly.

Yeah you got it right, good stuff.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

7. Should 'gurdwara(s)' always be capitalised? If so, there's one in the text that isn't.

Yes I it should be capitalized. I had a lot to write about and went through writing this stuff too quick.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

8. I replaced this: The age breakdown of Indo-Canadians is much younger than other Canadian groups due to the fact since a large number of Indo Canadians are young immigrants, and there is a higher birth rate. with this The majority of Indo-Canadians fall into an age range that is lower than that of other Canadian groups. because I don't think the reasons given were very good or well-expressed. IMO possible reasons include: the majority of Indian immigrants are likely to be of childbearing age (due to their desirability as workers); the majority of Indian immigrants are likely to be married (I don't know this, just supposing); Indian culture is more encouraging of big families (also don't know, just supposing). The point is it's all speculation, and should be supported by evidence before inclusion.

I agree with your explanations and suggested changes here, although it may be hard to obtain the exact reasons for Indo-Canadians alone since there isn't much material conducted on it. There is information about immigrants in general having a younger population than non immigrants when moving to a particular country (i.e. Mexicans moving to America, Muslims moving to France). I will try and find information on this as well.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I think that stat about immigrants tending to be younger is good and if it can be supported, should be included. Maybe a second sentence, "This mirrors the data on other examples of large-scale voluntary migration, notably Mexican immigration to the US and North African immigration to France (citation)." We could also say something like, "The 'points' Canadian immigration system tends to favour young professionals and other young, able-bodied workers."

:9. From 'Indo-Canadian Culture': Indo-Canadian culture is closely linked to each immigrating communities religious and ethnic backgrounds

• I tried to fix this but I realised I didn't understand it well enough. Is this saying that individual cultures *within* the blanket 'Indian' culture are linked to their Canadian counterparts? Also, the pluralisation is screwy but I tried to fix it six ways from Sunday without making it work.

Yes I understand do agree that my wording is confusing. Here is what I tried to say clarified:

Indo-Canadian culture is closely linked to each Indian ethnic groups religious and ethnic backgrounds. For instance, Hindu Punjabi's cultural practices differ compared to Hindu Gujurati's and Sikh Punjabi's due to either the difference in ethnicity or religion.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Cool.--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

10. From 'Indo-Canadian Culture': I changed this: Punjabi culture and language has been perserved by the ability for the community to establish places of worship, societies and to have the ability to use the Punjabi language in both Radio and Television. Not only Punjabi culture but also Hindi, Gujurati, and Tamil cultures are also similarly expressed in the same manner but to a lesser extent. to this: The cultures and languages of various Indian communities have been able to thrive in part due to the freedom of these communities to establish structures and institutions for religious worship, social interaction and cultural practices. In particular, Punjabi culture and language have been reinforced in Canada through radio and television. but I think we should provide examples.

I believe you clarified the statement very well. Some suggestions that you can include regarding punjabi culture is the building of Gurdwaras to perserve the Sikh faith. There are also some Sikh schools similar to Christian sunday school that offer lessons in Punjabi and in teaching aspects about Sikh religion. There is also the practice of traditional Punjabi dance and singing known as Bhangra which is carried out by dance schools at home and mostly through television and radio. In addition there are community centers and Gurdwaras that organize playing punjabi sports and those that are widely play in punjab such as kabadi as well as field hockey and cricket which can be viewed on television. There is Sikh religious programming geared to children as well, that teach them the basics of Sikhism that are shown on Canadian television. Choose which of the examples you would like to include in adding to this section.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

That's awesome.--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

:11. From 'Indo-Canadian Culture': I removed this: due to the presence of White Canadian culture, and that of American culture as well. from this: Alternatively, Indo-Canadian culture has developed its own identity compared to other non resident indians and from people in India, due to the presence of White Canadian culture, and that of American culture as well. because it is speculation.

Perhaps my use of "White Canadian" is offensive, for which I apologize, but I wasn't sure how to distinguish Canadians of European descent from Indian when writing within the same sentence. I do agree that it should be removed and have added other examples to illustrate a more neutral view non speculative(i'm not sure if that is a word) view.

Here are some examples that I will be including that support the inculsion of North American cultural aspects. For instance, here in Canada, Sikh youth often mix in traditional Bhangra which is has uses Punjabi instruments, with hip hop beats and rap with Black music entertainers. Such entertainers include Raghav, a calgary based Indo-Canadian singer, Jazzy B, Sukhinder Shinda to name a few that almost exclusively use Punjabi and western music together. The concept of dating is mainly a western practice in Canada and America, which has been adopted by the Indo-Canadian community. In addition, talk and wide use of premarital sex is another western practice that has been adopted by the Indo-Canadian community. The empowerment of Indo-Canadian women who often work as much as Indo-Canadian men and the same rights, compared to their counterparts in India, is also due to the presence of being raised within white Canadian culture. Indo-Canadian women primarily wear western clothing, and are able to show their body more freely in Canada, which is often still socially unacceptable by commoners in India, and thus a product of being raised in white Canadian culture. The use of Canadian/American slang by Indo-Canadians is also a product of the preexisting culture, and differs from those Indians who live in the UK, India or any other part of the world.

Check out this information I wrote above in the Indo-Canadian culture section ( I have reworded some of the phrases above)

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, the thing is I don't think you're wrong at all, in fact it's a no-brainer really, but it's just that without citations it's drawing conclusions, which is a no-no in an encyclopedia. Personally I don't think we need to say it; we say that North American East Indian cultures are different from their native counterparts (native as in still in India), we give examples (I think your examples are great), and we let the reader conclude that it's because of their exposure to White North Americans (although it isn't just white, as stated in the original iteration of the section on hybrid culture: rap/hip-hop, to wit.--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

:12. From 'Television and radio': There are a whole host of shows presented on Indo Canadian culture that are present on Canadian television networks. Vision TV, a multicultural/multireligious channel presents a nonstop marathon of Indo-Canadian shows on Saturdays which showcases both Indo Canadian events in Canada but also from India as well. Other networks such as Omni Television, CityTV and local Cable access channels present local Indo-Canadian content.

• The line that starts with 'Saturday' is weird I think, but I don't understand what it says. If they're Indo-Canadian shows showcasing Indo-Canadian events, how are they from India as well?

Yes I agree that what I wrote is confusing confusing, here is my updated version:

One prominent multicultural/multireligious channel, Vision TV presents a nonstop marathon of Indo-Canadian shows on Saturdays. These television shows often highlight Indo-Canadian events in Canada, and also show events from India involving Indians who reside there. In addition, other networks such as Omni Television, CityTV and local Cable access channels also present local Indo-Canadian content and Indian content from India.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Cool. Do you mind if I edit it a teensy bit?--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. --Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

:13. From 'Television and Radio': In recent years, there has been an establishment of Indian television networks in India on Canadian Television, with the help of Shan Chandrasekhar who set up the Asian Television Network. Indo-Canadians can receive such networks as Zee TV, B4U, Sony Entertainment Television, and Aaj Tak to name a few directly from India.

• I just don't understand this at all.

Here is some background information: Shan Chandreshekhar is an Indo-Canadian who has lived in Canada for many years, and the first person to start an Indo-Canadian television show back the the 70's on CityTV (Toronto). After in the 1990's he became involved with the CRTC so that Indian television networks based in India could send a direct feed to Canada. In doing so, he branded these channels under his own company known as the Asian Television Network. Essentially he is the middle man between the Indian channels from India and the cable/satellite companies. Since 1997, Indo-Canadians can subscribe to channels from India via purchasing TV channel packages from their satellite/cable companies.

I've claried what I wrote above and included in that article.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Got it, I understand now. I just didn't really get what the mechanics of it were.--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

:14. From 'Television and Radio': This trend might be due to the fact that most Canadian television is closely linked with U.S. Television, which has substantial numbers of both Black and Chinese communities, and thus chooses to represent them because of their size. Undoubtedly however, with an increasing Indo-Canadian population, this trend will likely be corrected in the future.

• I think this either needs to go or be backed up with a reference.

Yeah this one will be hard to support, I'll take it out.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

15. I will be making further edits cuz I just noticed a couple more typos that I missed. Please feel free to question my edits here or on my talk page if you disagree. This is my biggest edit ever and I want to know if I didn't do it right.--Anchoress 08:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Please feel free to delete/strikethrough any items you fix yourself; the unsupported speculation noted above I'll just remove in a few days if no-one shows up to delete or reference it.--Anchoress 10:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I updated some of the concerns you had and put a strikethrough through them here. Overall I appreciate the constructive feedback on the article, all of the points you raised were valid and needed revising/discussing since I was writing this stuff up at times quickly and not editing enough.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem, and huge props to you Parihav (and whomever else has transformed this article in the last few days); I didn't say in my note above what an awesome difference there is compared to its previous incarnation; when I came here to comment on the accuracy of population numbers it was just tiny and unfocused, and now it's a real resource. If we can get some pictures and references (other than statscan) I think it could be a possible FA.--Anchoress 00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, all of the changes were done by myself on the 24th of April (the Ip addresses that appear in the edits were from several computers i was using when i forgot to log in). I looked at an article on Indian Americans and saw how much information they had provided, and thought that this article was certainly lacking in quality and depth. I was surprised that all that was available was a list of people that were Indo-Canadian and a brief and rather incomplete history. All of the history and demographic information was compiled from websites I used and read, including some of the culture section. I will be including some pictures in the culture section, but I am having trouble finding pictures about history because most of those are copyrighted on the internet. --Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I thought that was probably you. :-) Re: the pictures, I'm really ignorant of all the ins and outs of images on Wikipedia, but I think if photos are old enough they're in the public domain, no? And I think there's nothing stopping us from asking the copyright holders if they will release the images for use on Wikipedia. As to the edits, I really do think this article is awesome now, and I was considering nominating it for the 'collaboration of the week' on the Canada portal, but I was worried that some well-meaning pedant might butcher it because it's so lacking in references.--Anchoress 01:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I found a reference that covers some information about Indians from other parts of the world immigrating to Canada, most notably from Africa, the Carribean and the Middle east. It also includes the immigration trends (Indians being the second largest immigrating group behind chinese immigrants). I am not sure how to include references properly but her eis the link. http://www.littleindia.com/september2004/TheOtherIndianAmericans.htm --Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Michael Ondaatje

I added Michael Ondaatje, although I don't know if it's OK because he's of mixed descent and was born in Sri Lanka, not India.--Anchoress 11:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure what mixture he is, but if he has European and Sri Lankan heritage, that would mean he is Sri Lankan Canadian and/or South Asian Canadian, and not an Indo-Canadian.

--Parihav 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops, my bad. I'll stop editing at 6am.--Anchoress 00:32, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

References

I put in many references covering much of the article, in order to legitimize the stuff I wrote. As stated earlier, the Little India reference overlaps several portions (recent history of settlement, types of Indians in Canada, Cultural information), so it is very comprehensive in providing proof of the statements I made.

--(Parihav 16:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC))

Tables

In the next few days, I will be fixing up the tables to make them more condensed in size, so they do not take up most of the page.

(Parihav 17:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC))

Split into History of Indo-Canadian Immigration?

The History section of this page is getting pretty long, and deals almost exclusively with immigration, not the history of indo-canadians in Canada. There is a History of Chinese immigration to Canada, maybe there should be a History of Indo-Canadian immigration as well? -- TheMightyQuill 15:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not specifically against the idea, but right now there are only a couple of editors working on this article, and I wonder if splitting it will hinder its evolution into a brilliant article. I vote for leaving it as is for now, until either it is polished a bit (look for a 'to do' list from me in the near future), or until there are more editors contributing who will continue to watch/improve the split articles.--Anchoress 02:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Cool, I totally understand. I think the History section could definitely focus a little more on Indo-Canadians living in Canada, not just their immigration. For instance, the article on the controversy around Baltej Singh Dhillon could be expanded and included here. -- TheMightyQuill 11:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

The History section deals with more immigration because Indo-Canadians haven't been long enough in Canada unlike the black canadians and chinese canadians. Almost all the Indo-Canadians are foreign-born. Sonic99 03:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Indo-Canadian History at Vancouver Public Library. If anyone's in Vancouver. -- TheMightyQuill 18:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

When writing about the history section of this article, I could only provide details on Immigration since my knowledge of Indian history in Canada is limited to immigration and I could not think of anything else to write about. I do hope, however, that someone can provide a more well rounded account of contributions of Indians in Canada. Parihav 22:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Inter-racial Statistics

Where did the editor of this article get his/her data for the Table of Biracial Canadian(white and Other)? If you put a table of statistic in an article, then you have to put your source of information or a link. You cannot make it up. Sonic99 03:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

When writing academic articles of this nature, I never make things up. Thank you for reminding me about the error, which I have now fixed. Parihav 21:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

The web link that you added for the table, leads to the McMaster University website. The link has nothing to do with biracial Canadians. Nice try. In Canada, inter-racial relationship isn't just white and non-white, but also non-white with other non-white. Sonic99 23:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I copied the link wrong, try it now. (Parihav 02:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC))

Sonic99, may I respectfully remind you of the WP policy Assume Good Faith? I don't think it's polite to ascribe malicious motivations to another editor's actions or inactions without evidence thereof.--Anchoress 02:51, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Roma

Does this article also cover Roma people in Canada? Should it? CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 23:44, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I would not think so RaveenS 18:52, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I would love to claim their Gypsy heritage as my own. It's only now that the general public people (or even themselves) see the link that they originally came from the Indian Sub continent.

The bigger question should be ~do they consider themselves to be linked to India or consider themselves Indo?.

I think most would consider first the country they migrated from. We talking about more than 500 years of separation here. It's amazing that one can still see the links, even if a lot of it was discovered through the language. This really shows how Asians in general hold on to their culture.

Moving the List of Notable Indo-Canadians past and present list

I have moved the List of Notable Indo-Canadians past and present to a separate page called List of Indo-Canadians, due to the fact that the list has gathered a large number of entries, and will continue to grow therefore making the Indo-Canadian page very long. This is common on other pages of other Canadian ethnicities, such as on Black Canadians, Jewish Canadians, Italian Canadians etc since thier lists have grown very long too.

Parihav 19:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Ethnic Infobox

I decided to place an ethnic infobox, which is also on the Indian American page. I chose the pictures of Russel Peters and Lisa Ray, since there were hardly any pictures from any of the Indians listed in the List of Indo-Canadians page. Therefore if any more pictures do arise, feel free to place them in as well or replace the ones I have put in.

Parihav 20:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

"related groups" info removed from infobox

For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 17:20, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Kanishka

Shouldn't this page say anything about the Kanishka air disaster?

European Canadians?

"However, because the term East Indian is not blatantly pejorative and persists in being widely used by "European" Canadians, this term is also broadly acceptable to and tolerated by most Indo-Canadians." I have a problem with this sentence. Firstly, I don't think most white Canadians would identify themselves as "European Canadians" and secondly the term "East Indian" is also used by non-white Canadians as well. Does anybody have any suggestions on how this could be changed? --Lesouris 08:33, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Also, the fact that the inter-racial marriage table assumes that "biracial" means "Indian and White". I don't know if the figures given in the table represent these marriages only, but I would assume that some Indo-Canadians have married people that are neither white nor Indo-Canadian. --Lesouris 08:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Indo-Carribeans?

Being from Trinidad myself, why in the world are we assoicated with East Indians? We are separate bunch a people with a separate mentality and way of life. Indian Canadians should only refer to those indians from India period! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.121.89.105 (talk) 16:10, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you don't associate yourself with Indians, but the fact is that many do and do have ethnic Indian heritage. Hence they fall under Indo Canadian. BTW I am Indian from England yet I still call myself Indo Canadian not British Indian. Does that mean all Indians who were born or raised outside of India should not call themselves Indo Canadian when they move to Canada. I don't think so.

-Parihav (talk) 02:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Population in Toronto

This table should be revaluated. [1] shows that the number of South Asians in the entire city of Toronto is 253,915. The number currently used is from the Toronto East York Community Council. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.114.5 (talk) 17:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

someone changed the figures on purpose from the way I had orignally put them in. i changed them back

-Parihav (talk) 03:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Population settlement

It seems to me that this chart is a bit wrong. According to the source, the number of "East Indians" in Toronto outnumber those in Vancouver. Furthermore, the numbers just don't jive with the source. Some of the lower ones are almost accurate, but the whole table seems a little out of whack. (Is this what the previous commenter was referring to, in his/her "Population in Toronto" edit?) Am I just seeing things or am I right? FamilyCompact (talk) 16:29, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Religous Figures

When I initially contributed to this article, I had placed accurate religious information. Someone had changed this up, so I restored it. My previous edits were erased when the name of this article changed several times, but here is the proof of the original information I put in. [Indo Canadian page]

-Parihav (talk) 02:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)