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*In '''Canada''', the Jamaican population is '''centered in Toronto, with smaller communities in cities such as Hamilton, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa'''. Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population. | *In '''Canada''', the Jamaican population is '''centered in Toronto, with smaller communities in cities such as Hamilton, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa'''. Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population. | ||
*A notable though much smaller group of emigrants are Jamaicans in '''Ethiopia'''. These are mostly Rastafarians, in whose theological worldview Africa is the promised land, or "Zion", or more specifically Ethiopia. Most live in the small town of Shashamane about 150 miles (240 km) south of the capital Addis Ababa. | *A notable though much smaller group of emigrants are Jamaicans in '''Ethiopia'''. These are mostly Rastafarians, in whose theological worldview Africa is the promised land, or "Zion", or more specifically Ethiopia. Most live in the small town of Shashamane about 150 miles (240 km) south of the capital Addis Ababa. | ||
*More recently many resort- and wild-life-management-skilled Jamaicans have been trending emigration toward such far-flung nations as '''Australia, New Zealand (especially in Wellington and, to a lesser extent, Auckland) the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia'''. | *More recently many resort- and wild-life-management-skilled Jamaicans have been trending emigration toward such far-flung nations as '''Australia, New Zealand (especially in Wellington and, to a lesser extent, Auckland) the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia'''.<ref name="Jam"/><ref>"Jamaican diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_diaspora, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> | ||
==Records of Jamaican Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Jamaican Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||