{"id":6796,"date":"2010-04-24T02:37:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2010-04-24T03:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T03:28:51","slug":"canada%e2%80%99s-mixing-pot-multiracial-relationships-growing-at-rapid-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6796","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s mixing pot: Multiracial relationships growing at rapid pace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s mixing pot: Multiracial relationships growing at rapid pace<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

National Post<\/a>
\n2010-04-20<\/p>\n

Mary Vallis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of Canadians in mixed-race relationships and marriages is rising, still primarily a big city phenomenon, but a trend fuelled in part by romances in small cities, according to a new report<\/a> released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Between 2001 and 2006, mixed unions grew at a rapid pace (33%), more than five times the growth for all couples (6.0%), the agency says in a new report titled “A Portrait of Couples in Mixed Unions.”<\/p>\n

According to the 2006 Census, 3.9% of the 7.4 million couples in Canada<\/a> were “mixed unions,” meaning either one member of the relationship belonged to a visible minority or that both were members of different visible minorities. Fifteen years earlier, mixed unions accounted for 2.6% of all couples.<\/p>\n

Residents of small cities with predominantly white populations like Saguenay, Que.<\/a>, Moncton, N.B.<\/a>, and Thunder Bay, Ont.<\/a>, boasted some of the highest percentages of visible minorities in mixed unions. Nearly 63% of all of the visible minorities in Saguenay had spouses or partners from other backgrounds. Saint John, N.B.<\/a>, Kelowna, B.C.<\/a>, Sudbury<\/a> and Barrie<\/a> also ranked high…<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s mixing pot: Multiracial relationships growing at rapid pace National Post 2010-04-20 Mary Vallis The number of Canadians in mixed-race relationships and marriages is rising, still primarily a big city phenomenon, but a trend fuelled in part by romances in small cities, according to a new report released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday. Between 2001 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,6,394],"tags":[259,2857,2858],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","tag-marriage","tag-mary-vallis","tag-national-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}