According to the 2006 Census, there were 200,035 Canadians with Danish background, 17,650 of whom were born in Denmark . Canada became an important destination for the Danes during the post war period. At one point, a Canadian immigration office was to be set up in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. While most of the post war immigrants settled in large cities, Danish-Canadian communities can be found in all of Canada's ten provinces.
The oldest Danish community in Canada is New Denmark, New Brunswick

New Denmark, New Brunswick

New Denmark is a Canadian rural community in Victoria County, New Brunswick.The community derives its name from several Danish settlers who inhabited the area in 1872, eventually forming the largest and what would become the oldest Danish community in Canada; the Danish influence has diminished...

, first inhabited by Danish immigrants in 1872.

List of Canadians of Danish descent

• Erik Christensen
  Erik Christensen
  Erik Christensen is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
   - NHL player
• Hayden Christensen
  Hayden Christensen
  Hayden Christensen is a Canadian actor. He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s. He moved on to minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in Life as a House, for which he was nominated for a Golden...
  
   - actor (Danish paternal grandparent)
• Scott Frandsen
  Scott Frandsen
  Scott Frandsen is a Canadian rower of Swedish and Danish descent.-Biography:Born in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, he began rowing at age 16 at Brentwood College , in British Columbia, Canada.He rowed for four years at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
   - Olympic athlete
• Ann Hansen
  Ann Hansen
  Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization famous for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant, which made components for American cruise missiles. She was sentenced to life in prison, but was released after eight years. Hansen wrote of her...
  
   - anarchist
• Glenna Hansen
  Glenna Hansen
  Glenna F. Hansen is an Inuvialuit Canadian politician. She served as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from March 31, 2000 to April 29, 2005.-Early life:...
  
   - Inuvialuit politician
• Rick Hansen
  Rick Hansen
  Richard M. Hansen, CC, OBC is a Canadian Paralympian and an activist for people with spinal cord injuries. Following a car crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down. Hansen is most famous for his Man In Motion World Tour...
  
   - paraplegic athlete
• K.V. Johansen - writer
• Rasmus Lerdorf
  Rasmus Lerdorf
  Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...
  
   - programmer
• Leslie Nielsen
  Leslie Nielsen
  Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters...
  
   - actor and comedian (Danish father)
• Robert Nielsen
  Robert Nielsen
  Robert Nielsen is a journalist who is known for his time with the Toronto Star. Nielsen was employed by the newspaper for 33 years and served in several capacities, including as a correspondent, foreign correspondent, chief editorial writer, editorial page editor, investigative reporter and...
  
   - journalist
• Alf Erling Porsild - botanist