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Immigration of Russians to Canada started in the late 18th century.

18th-19th centuries
Russians began to immigrate to Canada in the late 18th century. The first Russians in Canada were fur traders who settled on the West Coast. Russians began to immigrate to Canada in the late 18th century. Official regulations, both from Russia and Canada, slowed the emigration of Russians into Canada.

Several thousand Russian Jews emigrated to Canada in the late 19th century to escape pogroms and anti-Semitism in the Russian Empire. They established small Russian communities in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.

20th Century
After the First World War, a million Russians emigrated to Canada fleeing the consequences of the Russian revolution. Most of them were farmers, loggers, and miners. Russian intellectuals also came to Canada and continued to work in their fields.

After the Second World War, many Russians immigrated to Canada. Many of them were part of the millions of displaced people who found themselves in Europe after the war.

During the Cold War, Russian immigration declined severely because of the strict immigration restrictions in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did allow some Jews to emigrate to Canada. About 1,500 Soviet Jewish immigrants had arrived in Canada by the late 1980s. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian Jews have continued to be an important part of immigration from Russia. About 70 percent of Russian Jews who emigrated from the Soviet Union settled in the GTA region.

21st Century
According to the 2016 census, 622,445 Canadians declared their ethnic origin as being Russian or partly Russian.

Residential Schools
In southeastern British Columbia, more than 200 Russian Doukhobors were taken away from their parents and forced into residential schools in the 1950s. Likewise to the residential schools for Indigenous children, these Russian children were treated harshly and forbidden from speaking in Russian.