Canada Receives Record Number Of Immigrants In 100 Years

Canada received more than 320,000 immigrants in the last 12 months, the most it has received since 1971, when the current way of keeping records began.

When older data is taken into account, Canada has not welcomed as many newcomers in a single 12-month period since the 1910s, according to Statistics Canada.

Figures for the 12 months ending on June 30, 2016, show 320,932 new immigrants landed here compared with 240,844 in the previous year which represented a 15-year low (July 1 2014 to June 30 2015).

That represents an increase of more than 30 per cent, while the previous modern-day record for a 12-month period came in 2009/2010, when 270,581 immigrants were admitted.

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