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Demographics
The 2006 census showed that the total of single and multiple ethnic origin responses for Serbian was 25,160. Single ethnic origin responses was 17,265 while multiple ethnic origin responses was 7,890 [1]. Also the total of single and multiple ethnic origin responses for Yugoslav was 12,685. Single ethnic origin responses was 4,950 while multiple ethnic origin responses was 7,725.
Toronto Population by Language in 2001 showed 13,635 Serbians [2].
History
One of the first Serbian immigrants in Toronto was Sremac Herceg. He arrived in August 1903. A great number of Serbian settlers that came in 1912 were from Niš region. In between Balkan Wars and World War I, in Toronto lived more than two hundred Serbs. [3]
Culture
In 1954 the Serb Youth Club in Toronto was formed, and its folk-dance group Strazilovo became one of the first highly successful dance groups in Canada.
Toronto’s folk-dance group Hajduk Veljko (founded 1964) danced at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and at Expo ’86 in Vancouver, and Toronto’s Oplenac (1973) 1.
From the early 1950s to 1984 the Serbian Cultural Club St Sava was active in Toronto, publishing eight volumes in Serbian dealing with Serb history..
The Serbian Heritage Academy (SHA), formed in Toronto in 1981, has organized academic conferences, exhibits, and lectures. In 1984 it installed a bronze plaque at the University of Toronto’s Medical Sciences Building honouring Canadian doctors and nurses who had worked as volunteers in Serbia during World War I.
The first Serb bookstore, Srbica Books, was opened in Toronto in 1990 by Zivko Apic.
Media
- Newspapers
- Novine Toronto [4]
- Vesti
- TV
- Serbian Television Toronto [5]
Prominent individuals
Churches
- St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church
- St. Michael the Archangel, Serbian Orthodox Church
See also
References
External links
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