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The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]
Canada is a country in North America.Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's second-largest country by total area, with the world's longest coastline.
Languages of Canada; List of Canadian census areas demographic extremes; List of Canadian provinces and territories' largest municipalities; List of census divisions of Canada by population; List of Indian reserves in Canada by population; List of the largest population centres in Canada; List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population
In 1871 there was an enumeration of the Indigenous population within the limits of Canada at the time, showing a total of only 102,358 individuals. [19] In 1885 the number of Indigenous people in Canada was reported as 131,952 individuals. [20] From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 per cent, four times the national rate ...
By this time, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, and British Columbia were part of Canada and included in the national census, as was the Northwest Territories. Beginning in 1906, the Prairie provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan began to take separate censuses of population and agriculture every five years to monitor growth in the West.
Clickable map of Canada exhibiting its ten provinces and three territories, and their capitals.
The Atlas of Canada (French: L'Atlas du Canada) is an online atlas published by Natural Resources Canada that has information on every city, town, village, and hamlet in Canada. It was originally a print atlas, with its first edition being published in 1906 by geographer James White and a team of 20 cartographers. Much of the geospatial data ...
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