That was the title for a talk I was to give on the Gulf Islands, after a library committee asked me to hop on the ferry and meet some of those whose homes are surrounded by the Salish Sea.
Unlike Metro Vancouver, where the population is almost half foreign-born, the demographic reality is vividly different just a short B.C. Ferries ride away from the big, bustling city. At the same time, roughly 9,000 whites and Aboriginals each year depart Metro Vancouver for different parts of B.C., especially towns on the southwest coast.
The Indigenous proportion of the Southern Gulf Islands, meanwhile, is about five per cent, almost as high as the B.C. average. However, none of those speak an Aboriginal language. That is unlike the 195 who have German, Dutch or Danish as a second language. Political scientist Eric Kaufmann, who was raised in Vancouver to mixed-race parents, has created a chart showing how the proportion of whites jumped by roughly 20 per cent in a recent period in municipalities such as Squamish, North Vancouver and Port Moody.
Conservative whites “who dislike diversity don’t retreat from it any more than pro-diversity whites do,” writes Kaufmann, who is at the University of London, Birkbeck.Such trends make up the demographic experiment that is Metro Vancouver, which, along with Toronto, ranks as the most ethnically super-diverse region of Canada, if not the world. Meanwhile, the broad geography of Canada remains predominantly white.
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