Smaller cities attacting more immigrants
In recent years, Canada’s small to mid-sized urban centres[i] have started to attract more international migrants. Using Statistics Canada’s annual estimates of the components of population growth[ii], between 2013 and 2019, the number of immigrants settling in Canada’s four largest urban centres combined (Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver and Calgary) increased by nine percent. In the rest of Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs), the number of immigrants added to the population increased by 40% over the same timeframe. The number of immigrants settling in the smaller urban centres, Census Agglomerations, rose by 45%