Canada admitted 125,965 Permanent Residents during January-May 2019
According to the data by the Open Government, in the first five months of the year, Canada admitted 125,965 new Permanent Residents. 58,960 new PR settled in Ontario; the second most popular destination was British Columbia with 17,625 newcomers; the third is Alberta with 16,625 new PRs; 14,345 newcomers settled in Quebec. The rest provinces received less than 10,000 newcomers:
- Ontario – 58,960
- British Columbia – 17,625
- Alberta – 16,625
- Quebec – 14,345
- Manitoba – 6,445
- Saskatchewan – 5,315
- Nova Scotia – 2,645
- New Brunswick – 2,115
- Prince Edward Island – 960
- Newfoundland and Labrador – 685
- Yukon – 130
- Northwest Territories – 100
- Nunavut – 10
Among the Canadian cities, the leaders remain to be the same: 45,190 newcomers settled in Toronto, 14,075 now reside in Vancouver, 12,275 have chosen Montreal, 7,500 settled in Calgary, 6,255 went to Edmonton, 5,185 – to Winnipeg, and 4,255 – to the national capital Ottawa (All values are rounded to the closest multiple of 5).
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