u.s .,: Filipino Community and Canadian-Immigration Statistics

u.s .,: But until the 1960s, they noted, most Filipinos knew very little about Canada, which many imagined to be a land of snow and Eskimos, according to Georgia Asian. Some, according to them, had seen pictures of Niagara Falls and thought it was entirely an American landscape. Canada has the second-largest Filipino community in the world, behind only the U.S., the Laquians said in an interview with the Georgia Straight. The Laquians have lived in and out of Canada since arriving in Ontario as a young couple with their two children in 1969. Back in 1964, according to their research, there were only 770 Filipinos living in the country. It was during this decade, they said, that Filipinos were officially categorized as a distinct ethnic group in Canadian-immigration statistics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.