The latest census data release from Statistics Canada shows that one in five Canadians was born in another country.
The agency released its Immigration and Ethnodiversity results from the long-form census in 2016. It says 7.5-million Canadians are immigrants, the highest percentage since the 1921 census, and 1.2-million arrived between 2011 and 2016.
Of those newcomers, 60.3% were admitted under the economic category, 26.8% immigrated because they already have family here, and 11.6% are refugees.
The vast majority of foreign-born Canadians can carry on a conversation in either English, French, or both.
Asia, including the Middle East, remains the top source of immigrants to Canada at 61.8%.
For the first time, more immigrants came from Africa than Europe. Since 1971, the number of people coming that continent grew four-fold and now make up 13.4% of all newcomers.
Citizens from 250 countries around the world have chosen to come to Canada.
While more immigrants are choosing to settle in the Prairie provinces, most continue to take up residence in either Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal. Ontario became home to 39% of those who arrived between 2011 and 2016.
The census data also included information on visible minorities in Canada, showing 22.3% are not Caucasian. That is 7.6-million Canadians. Statistics Canada predicts that percentage could grow to 35.9% by the year 2036.
South Asians account for 25.1% of Canada's visible minority population, while 20.5% are Chinese. The Black population surpassed the one million mark for the first time at 1.19-million or 15.6% of the overall population. The Filipino and Arab populations have also doubled in the past decade.
Canada's Indigenous population has grown 42.5% since 2006 to nearly 1.7-million. The agency says growth in that community is more than five times that of the rest of the population.