More Mandarin than Cantonese speakers in Metro Vancouver

Metro News interviewed Henry Yu, a UBC history professor, after the 2016 census showed the number of Mandarin speakers in Canada has surpassed the number of Cantonese speakers for the first time in the country’s history.

He said the concentrations of Cantonese-speaking people are the direct result of where Hong Kong immigrants settled in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.