Migrants 5 years and over by components of migration, by census metropolitan areas (1996 Census)

Definitions

Migrants: Persons who lived in a different census subdivision (CSD) than the one they lived in five years earlier (internal migrants) or who lived outside Canada (external migrants).

In-migrants: Persons who currently live within a census metropolitan area (CMA) and who five years previously lived elsewhere in Canada or outside the country.

Out-migrants: Persons who lived in a census metropolitan area (CMA) five years previously and who now live elsewhere in Canada.

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 , Ottawa–Gatineau 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