Jamaican Consulate in Ontario, Canada     
303 Eglinton Avenue East
Ontario M4P 1L3
Toronto
Phone: 416-598-3008/3035/2369
Fax: 416-598-4928

The pattern of arrival, volume, and occupational composition of Jamaican immigration have all been conditioned by immigration policy, especially Canada’s needs for skilled workers. During the

Jamaicans, especially among immigrants of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, have made contributions in all levels of education. Pioneering Jamaican teachers have taught at the primary and secondary

Today, the Jamaican presence in Toronto is no longer a token few as in the fifties. The numbers have grown to a sizeable minority with a distinct culture, organized and vocal, which has not hesitat