Diversity and concentration in Canadian immigration

By 2006, the top 10 areas accounted for 54 percent of and the settlement of many recently arrived immigrants Canada’s population and an overwhelming 90 percent of the directly in the suburbs. [...] In addition, the University of toronto’s new cities implications of the trends for public policy centre also provides support for data analysis and The increased concentration of immigrants in Canada’s for the assessment of urban trends. [...] Immigration from regions other than Europe and Asia the 2006 immigrant population increased dramatically, from peaked in Toronto in the 1970s, when about 15 percent of 10 percent who arrived in the 1980s to over 20 percent of the immigrant population that had settled in the city as of those arriving between 1991 and 2006. [...] For the most part, new immigrants “plexes” (duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, etc.), renovated them, from both periods are concentrated on the Island of Montréal, and lived on the ground level while renting the other flats in especially in the central part of the Island. [...] UNIvERSItY of toRoNto • CENtRE foR URbAN AND CommUNItY StUDIES • research bulletin 42 Immigrants arriving in the 2001–2006 period continue to need to promote their cities and regions as desirable locations locate in the same area as those who arrived in 1965–1971, for immigrant settlement and be prepared to receive newcom- primarily in the centre and northeast part of the Island of ers by offering