Montreal is home to the third-largest Seychellois community in the world, after London and Perth. The 2016 Canadian census counted about 740 Seychellois in the city, and the wider Canadian community stretches through Toronto and beyond.
Why Quebec
Language did the work. Kreol Seselwa is French-based, and every Seychellois grows up with French as a national language. For families leaving after 1977, francophone Montreal was a soft landing, a place where the tongue at home and the tongue on the street were cousins. The community that formed there has stayed unusually tight-knit.
Toronto and the rest
Toronto carries the second Canadian community, anglophone and spread through the greater city. Seychelles maintains honorary consuls in both Montreal and Toronto, the community's nearest official contact points, with full missions reachable in New York and London.
Community life
Canadian Seselwa life runs through family networks, Creole festival gatherings in October, and church. If you run or know an active association in Montreal or Toronto, register it with us. The next family that lands in YUL in January should not have to find the community by luck.