Nova Scotia

cent: While this is lower than other provinces and the national rate of 22 per cent, the number of newcomers to Nova Scotia is growing, according to The Chronicle Herald. From 2011 to 2016, Nova Scotia saw a 15 per cent jump in immigration, which was fuelled in part by Syrian refugees who have settled in the province. Nationwide immigration numbers collected from the 2016 census and released Wednesday shows the number of landed immigrants and permanent residents in Nova Scotia is now at 55,675, or 6.1 per cent of the overall population. More than 20 per cent of Nova Scotia's immigrant population landed in the last five years. Elizabeth Eustaquio-Domondon, the Philippines' honorary vice-consul in Halifax, says Filipinos immigrate to Nova Scotia and Canada for the same reasons she came here in 1999 family and opportunity. So where are these newcomers coming from The Statistics Canada data shows that the majority of recent immigrants from 2011 to 2016 came to Nova Scotia from the Philippines 12.7 per cent the United Kingdom 9.2 per cent and China 8.4 per cent . In that five-year period, 885, or 7.5 per cent, of the immigrants came from Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.