page_title: Norwegian Canadians
section_title: Today
hierarchical_section_title: Norwegian Canadians / Today
caption_attribution_description: Little Norway, November 1940 (Royal Norwegian Air Force training facility in Toronto, Canada)
context_page_description: Norwegian Canadians refer to Canadian citizens who identify themselves as being of full or partial Norwegian ancestry, or people who emigrated from Norway and reside in Canada.
  Norwegians are one of the largest European ethnic groups in the country and have contributed greatly to its culture, especially in Western Canada. There are approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Scandinavian descent living in Canada, representing around 3.9% of Canada’s population. According to the Canada 2011 Census there were 452,705 Canadians who claimed Norwegian ancestry, having an increase compared to those 432,515 in the 2006 Census. Significant Norwegian immigration took place from the mid-1880s to 1930.
context_section_description: Canada is also the home of Little Norway and Camp Norway, both Norwegian military training facilities, during the Second World War, and the port of Halifax was a refuge for the Norwegian merchant marine and Royal Norwegian Navy during the same conflict.
caption: Little Norway, a Norwegian Army Air Service/Royal Norwegian Air Force training camp in Canada during the Second World War
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