[4] Laurenz Ermatinger (1736 to 1789), a fur trader and merchant, arrived in Montreal from Switzerland and together with his son Charles Oakes (1776 to 1833), and Sebastian Freyvogel have explored the large Huron tract.
In 1786, a group of these Mennonites (led by John, Thielman and Steffen Kolb as wel as Franklin Albrecht and Frederich Hahn) settled in the Niagara Region, close to the Twenty Mile Creek.
[6] Similarly, Benjamin Eby emigrated to Upper Canada in 1806 and purchased a large tract of land in what would later become Kitchener, Ontario.
[6] Peter Rindisbacher was a Swiss artist who specialized in painting the Western USA and Canada until his death in 1834.
[4] According to the 2011 National Household Survey,[9] the cities with the most people claiming Swiss ethnic origin are as follow: According to the 2011 National Household Survey,[9] the provinces and territories with the most people claiming Swiss ethnic origin are as follow: