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Immigrant population by place of birth, by census metropolitan areas (1996 Census)

Definitions

Immigrant population: Refers to people who are, or have been, landed immigrants in Canada. A landed immigrant is a person who has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Some immigrants have resided in Canada for a number of years, while others are recent arrivals.

Census metropolitan area (CMA): a very large urban area (known as the urban core) together with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. A CMA has an urban core population of at least 100,000, based on the previous census.

View definitions for 1996 Census Metropolitan Areas:   St. John's ,  Halifax ,  Saint John ,  Saguenay ,  Québec ,  Sherbrooke ,  Trois-Rivières ,  Montréal ,  OttawaGatineau Ontario–Quebec ,  Ottawa-Gatineau (Quebec part) ,  Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario part) ,  Kingston ,  Oshawa ,  Toronto ,  Hamilton ,  St. Catharines–Niagara ,  Kitchener ,  London ,  Windsor ,  Sudbury,  Thunder Bay ,  Winnipeg ,  Regina ,  Saskatoon ,  Calgary ,  Edmonton ,  Abbotsford ,  Vancouver ,  Victoria

Notes

1. “Other” includes Greenland, St. Pierre and Miquelon, the category other country, as well as immigrants born in Canada.


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