Canada and the Dominican Republic established bilateral relations in 1954.

The DR maintains observer status in the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, an organization that Canada is a full member of.

Canada offered 177 students in the DR scholarships to Canadian Universities under The Emerging Leaders of the Americas program.

[2] Dominican Canadians are the fastest growing ethnic group from the Caribbean.

As of 2016, there were 23,130 people in Canada with full or partial Dominican ancestry.