Canada Border Services Agency

Canada Border Services Agency: According to the Canada Border Services Agency, 1,937 children averaging 10 years old have arrived in Canada since 2008 with no parents and no documents, fleeing war, poverty and other adversity in their home countries. The biggest influx came in 2009 when 460 kids crossed the border, according to CBC. Nearly half of the young asylum-seekers arrive in Quebec or Atlantic Canada and More than 300 unaccompanied minors are pouring into Canada seeking refugee status every year, a News investigation has found. "These kids are of varying ages, varying sophistication, they've all had something terrible happen to them which is why they're here," said lawyer Christine Lonsdale, who leads the Unaccompanied Minors Project at law firm McCarthy Tetrault. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.