Flemish-Canadian
Encyclopedia
According to the 2006 Canadian census 12,425 Canadians claim full or partial Flemish ancestry while another 168,915 people claimed Belgian ancestry.

Notable Flemish Canadians

  • Glenn De Baeremaeker
    Glenn De Baeremaeker
    Glenn De Baeremaeker is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada, who represents Ward 38, one of the two Scarborough Centre wards. The son of a working class family he has a Masters in international development and spent six months in Ethiopia at the height of the 1980s famine.He originally rose to...

    , Toronto city councillor
  • Lara Fabian
    Lara Fabian
    Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....

    , international French-language singer, is a famous Belgian expatriate of Flemish and Sicilian extraction
  • Émilie Heymans
    Émilie Heymans
    Émilie-Joane Heymans is a Canadian diver. Born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park , a suburb of Montreal, she started diving in 1993, at age 11...

    , Canadian diver
  • Charles John Seghers
    Charles John Seghers
    Charles John Seghers was a Belgian clergyman and missionary bishop. He is considered to be the founder of the Alaska Mission.-Early years and formation:...

    , Jesuit clergyman and missionary, was a Flemish-Belgian expatriate in Canada
  • Paul Vermeersch
    Paul Vermeersch
    Paul Joseph Vermeersch is a Canadian poet.Born in Mississauga, Ontario, he grew up in Southwestern Ontario and lives in Toronto.His first collection, Burn , was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award...

    , Canadian poet
  • Chad VanGaalen
    Chad VanGaalen
    Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician and artist from Calgary, Alberta.-Infiniheart:Following a few scattered independent releases, done mostly on homemade CDs with hand-drawn art, VanGaalen released Infiniheart on Canadian independent label Flemish Eye...

    , singer

External links

  • Canadian Encyclopedia - Belgian
  • http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume7/countries/belgium.htmlCanadian Museum of Civilization - Belgian Canadians]
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK