Vikram Vij

Vikram Vij: By comparison, only 20 per cent of respondents attributed at least part of their wealth to an inheritance, according to CTV. One of those newcomer-turned-millionaires is Vikram Vij, who opened up an Indian restaurant in Vancouver five years after immigrating to Canada and A new survey finds close to half of the country's millionaires are either immigrants or first-generation Canadians who made the bulk of their money after their arrival to the country. The BMO Harris Private Banking survey found that 48 per cent of Canadians with liquid assets of $1 million or more were either immigrants 24 per cent , or first-generation Canadians 24 per cent , meaning they had at least one parent born outside the country. In British Columbia, a full 68 per cent of the millionaires said they were new Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.