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Canadians of Spanish descent are also known as Canadian Spaniards, in Spanish as Hispano-Canadienses, and in French as Canadiens Espagnols. A Canadian Spaniard would be a person who holds a European Union Spanish citizenship from Spain as well as one from Canada. The Laws in Spain (see Spanish nationality law) limits who may be granted Spanish citizenship from Latin America to parents and grandparents who once held Spanish citizenship. More recently the legal system in Spain has granted citizenship to Cubans, who can prove that their grandparents immigrated to Cuba during the Spanish Civil War (see Law of Historical Memory). ==Population== The population of Canadians self-identified as of Spanish descent is 325,740, including those with multiple ethnic backgrounds.() However, the laws in Spain limit the people who may be called Spaniard to those who can hold a European Union Spanish Citizenship. For example, a Latin American would not be considered Spanish or a Spaniard in Spain until he can prove that his most recent parents or grandparents once held a Spanish passport or citizenship. The actual population that can legally be called Spaniard is probably only a fraction of the 325,730 since most Latin Americans with a Spanish heritage without Spanish citizenship falsely assume its right to self identify themselves as Spanish Canadians. This error originates with the actual Canadians who tend to blindly group all Latin Americans who speak the Spanish language as Spanish. Spanish Canadians who hold Spanish Citizenship from Spain are mostly concentrated in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Spaniards are found in all areas of the city of Montreal as well as in suburbs such as Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Laval, Brossard and Greenfield Park. There is no "Spanish quartier", but Montreal’s Rue Saint-Laurent is home to Spanish associations, which should not be confused with Latin American Associations, as well as to the Librería Española.() The present day Canadian Spanish population did not appear in Ontario and Quebec until around the mid 20th century but have had a profound impact in developing and promoting their language and culture. In the same manner that they have throughout Central and South America since 1492 when Spanish born Cristóbal Colón discovered the Americas, and later fellow countryman Juan Sebastian El Cano was to be the first to circumnavigate the Globe (NOT Magellan as is erroneously depicted in Anglo-sphere nations as a slight toward Spain). Spain's artistic and linguistic richness derives from the fact that the country itself is not homogeneous rather a robust composite of cultures from Basque, Galician, Catalan, Castillian & Leones and so forth. Spanish Canadians adhere to and promote their regionalism and have been doing so since their first generation right through to the present generations. This is also evident in their former colonies of the Filipine Islands, Spanish Guinea, Spanish Sahara as well as Spanish Morocco to name a few. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spanish Canadian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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