Table A3
Immigrants and percentage distribution by province of destination and class, Canada, 2010 and 2011

Table A3
Immigrants and percentage distribution by province of destination and class, Canada, 2010 and 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of immigrants and percentage distribution by province of destination and class. The information is grouped by province (appearing as row headers), 2010 and 2011, calculated using economic, family, refugees, others and total units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province 2010 2011
Economic Family Protected persons OthersNote 1 Total Economic Family Protected persons OthersNote 1 Total
Number of immigrants
Newfoundland and Labrador 420 115 160 19 714 393 129 146 17 685
Prince Edward Island 2,487 47 56 — 2,593 1,607 47 79 5 1,738
Nova Scotia 1,674 449 218 56 2,397 1,409 432 225 70 2,136
New Brunswick 1,727 211 157 30 2,125 1,473 283 179 32 1,967
Quebec 37,917 9,630 4,711 1,724 53,982 36,097 9,044 5,020 1,577 51,738
Ontario 69,498 29,346 13,914 5,353 118,111 51,402 27,374 15,921 4,761 99,458
Manitoba 13,275 1,377 1,032 124 15,808 13,152 1,400 1,303 108 15,963
Saskatchewan 6,243 726 574 72 7,615 7,658 689 547 61 8,955
Alberta 22,404 7,372 2,205 669 32,650 20,758 6,845 2,638 721 30,962
British Columbia 30,877 10,868 1,667 776 44,188 21,903 10,128 1,810 944 34,785
Yukon 310 34 — — 350 207 25 — 5 237
Northwest Territories 74 48 — 15 137 43 36 — — 85
Nunavut 12 7 — — 19 8 15 — — 24
Unknown — — — — — 8 — — — 14
Total 186,918 60,230 24,697 8,846 280,691 156,118 56,451 27,873 8,305 248,747
Distribution by province
Newfoundland and Labrador 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.3
Prince Edward Island 1.3 0.1 0.2 — 0.9 1.0 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.7
Nova Scotia 0.9 0.7 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9
New Brunswick 0.9 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.8
Quebec 20.3 16.0 19.1 19.5 19.2 23.1 16.0 18.0 19.0 20.8
Ontario 37.2 48.7 56.3 60.5 42.1 32.9 48.5 57.1 57.3 40.0
Manitoba 7.1 2.3 4.2 1.4 5.6 8.4 2.5 4.7 1.3 6.4
Saskatchewan 3.3 1.2 2.3 0.8 2.7 4.9 1.2 2.0 0.7 3.6
Alberta 12.0 12.2 8.9 7.6 11.6 13.3 12.1 9.5 8.7 12.4
British Columbia 16.5 18.0 6.7 8.8 15.7 14.0 17.9 6.5 11.4 14.0
Yukon 0.2 0.1 — — 0.1 0.1 0.0 — 0.1 0.1
Northwest Territories 0.0 0.1 — 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 — — 0.0
Nunavut 0.0 0.0 — — 0.0 0.0 0.0 — — 0.0
Unknown — — — — — 0.0 — — — 0.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Distribution by category
Newfoundland and Labrador 58.8 16.1 22.4 2.7 100.0 57.4 18.8 21.3 2.5 100.0
Prince Edward Island 95.9 1.8 2.2 — 100.0 92.5 2.7 4.5 0.3 100.0
Nova Scotia 69.8 18.7 9.1 2.3 100.0 66.0 20.2 10.5 3.3 100.0
New Brunswick 81.3 9.9 7.4 1.4 100.0 74.9 14.4 9.1 1.6 100.0
Quebec 70.2 17.8 8.7 3.2 100.0 69.8 17.5 9.7 3.0 100.0
Ontario 58.8 24.8 11.8 4.5 100.0 51.7 27.5 16.0 4.8 100.0
Manitoba 84.0 8.7 6.5 0.8 100.0 82.4 8.8 8.2 0.7 100.0
Saskatchewan 82.0 9.5 7.5 0.9 100.0 85.5 7.7 6.1 0.7 100.0
Alberta 68.6 22.6 6.8 2.0 100.0 67.0 22.1 8.5 2.3 100.0
British Columbia 69.9 24.6 3.8 1.8 100.0 63.0 29.1 5.2 2.7 100.0
Yukon 88.6 9.7 — — 100.0 87.3 10.5 — 2.1 100.0
Northwest Territories 54.0 35.0 — 10.9 100.0 50.6 42.4 — — 100.0
Nunavut 63.2 36.8 — — 100.0 33.3 62.5 — — 100.0
Unknown — — — — 100.0 57.1 — — — 100.0
Total 66.6 21.5 8.8 3.2 100.0 62.8 22.7 11.2 3.3 100.0
Note 1.

Includes deferred removal order class, post-determination refugee claimant class, temporary resident permit holders, humanitarian and compassionate/public policy cases and unknowns.

Notes: Due to privacy considerations, some cells in the table have been suppressed and replaced with the notation “—”. As a result, components may not sum to the total indicated. In general, we have suppressed cells containing less than five cases except in circumstances where, in our judgement, we are not releasing personal information on an identifiable individual. Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada. 2012. Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, 2012. Data available as of November 2012.
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