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prairie provinces: Alberta's share of recent immigrants defined as people who first obtained their landed immigrant or permanent resident status in Canada in the five years prior to a given census rose from 6.9 per cent in 2001 to 17.1 per cent in 2016, according to CBC. That's now the third highest among all provinces, just behind Quebec's 17.8 per cent. if undefined typeof b in Ontario remains the most popular destination for recent immigrants, with 39 per cent living there in 2016. That's according to the latest census data, released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, which shows how immigration patterns have shifted toward the Prairie provinces in general and Alberta, in particular. 21.9% of Canadians are immigrants, the highest share in 85 years Stats Can Over the past 15 years, the share of recent immigrants in the Prairie provinces has more than doubled, the federal agency said in a release. But that's down sharply from the 55.9 per cent who called Ontario home in 2001. International vs. interprovincial migration The surge in immigrants settling in Alberta has helped maintain the province's population growth despite an exodus of existing residents who left for other provinces in the wake of the recent recession. The proportion of new immigrants in B.C., meanwhile, shrunk from 19.9 per cent to 14.5 per cent over the past decade and a half. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.