The Canada where I live isn't so multicultural

[DesertFox]

Four years ago, I moved home to the little town I grew up in, Campbellford, Ont.

The first thing I noticed was a large number of young black people on the streets. When I was in high school in the 1960s, there was exactly one black person in town, my French teacher, a lonely woman who, no matter how sorry we felt for her and how nice we tried to be to her, left town after one year. Who could blame her?

But there were lots of non-white youngsters on the street four years ago. "Wow," I thought. "Times have changed."

I was wrong. Times hadn't changed. Turned out they were almost all from group homes. Hometown: Toronto. Add in a couple of Asian families, three or four black families, several south Asian families, a handful of Hispanics and that is the sum total of the non-white population -- slightly, but not much, larger than it was in the late 1960s.

My town, according to the census, is far from unique. In fact, it is the norm in Canada. Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are the exceptions.

Those cities may be polyglot multicultural. The Canada in which I live is not.

More (http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Woodcock_Connie/2008/04/05/5201156-sun.php)

[DesertFox]

This is much less true in America. Methinks one would be pressed to find even small towns that don't have a pretty good mix of "kinds" of folks, from blacks and Mexicans to immigrants from everywhere.

[DeclinetoState]

In at least one household in Canada, "multicultural" probably includes a few moose.

[Gato es Verde]

Black folks aren't generally fond of colder climates.

[DesertFox]

Neither is this white folk. :D

[DeclinetoState]

Black folks aren't generally fond of colder climates.Those that had been slaves got used to it. I think a number of them settled in southern Ontario (parts of which are, however, south of Detroit), so it may have been a matter of priorities.