 Visible Minority
By Canada's 150th birthday, almost 95 per cent of visible minorities would live in metropolitan areas, with three-quarters living in Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
By the time Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2017, more than half of Torontonians and Vancouverites will likely be members of a visible minority, says Statistics Canada.
More than one million will be South Asians and more than 735,000 Chinese by 2017. This means that more than half of Canada's South Asians and about 40 per cent of Canada's Chinese will be living in Toronto.
The majority of the population in Vancouver will also likely belong to a visible minority group by 2017. Nearly one-half will be Chinese.
 Recent data …
262,236 people immigrated to Canada in 2005.
That was an 11 per cent increase from 2004.
Of these, 60 per cent were economic immigrants, 24 per cent were family class immigrants, 14 per cent were refugees and two per cent were from other categories.
38 per cent of arriving immigrants between 25 and 64 years of age had a bachelor's degree as their highest level of education.
When immigrants land in Canada, they are asked where they plan to settle. In 2005, the top five provinces were Ontario (140,533), British Columbia (44,767), Quebec (43,308), Alberta (19,399) and Manitoba (8,097).
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Note: 90% of the South Asian community speaks Hindi, Urdu or Punjabi
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