Immigrants: Cent Years

immigrants: Of those provinces, Alberta experienced the biggest jump, with 17.1 per cent of new immigrants moving there in 2016, compared with just 6.9 per cent 15 years earlier, according to Toronto Star. At the same time, the proportion of new immigrants defined as people who moved to Canada in the past five years to Ontario has dropped significantly, from 55.9 per cent in 2001 to 39 per cent in 2016. The share of recent immigrants to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba more than doubled between 2001 and 2016, according to new data on the 2016 census that was published Wednesday by Statistics Canada. Despite this, the Toronto census metropolitan area, which includes the city itself and part of the surrounding region, remains the destination of choice for the largest number of immigrants to Canada. At this point, nearly half the people in the Toronto area 46.1 per cent were born outside Canada, the highest proportion of any major urban centre in the country. Between 2011 and 2016, almost 30 per cent of immigrants 356,930 people made Toronto their new home, almost double the total that moved to the Montreal area. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.