Canadian Immigration

Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Bibliographic Data

ID9953530
AuthorsAnthony H Richmond (corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume13
Issue4
Pages163-182
Publication date1975-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2435.1975.tb00050.x
OpenAlexW2060835111
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

Canada has a population of 22S million people inhabiting nearly four million squarre miles of territory. Geographically, it is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in the world. This has led many people to regard it as under- populated and capable of absorbing a vastly increased population. Howerrer, this ex- pansionist view is now being seriously quastioned. It is recognized that much of the laud is mountainous or subject to an arctic climate that makes it inhospitable to settlement. The developed land is not more than one-third of the total and permanent settlement makes up only about 10 per cent of the total area. The large majority of the population of C;anada lives along a narrow strip within 650 miles of the American border. One area of continuous settlement, within 270 miles of the u.s. border, is only 2.2 per cent of the area of Canada, but contains its eight largest cities and 36 per cent of the po. pulation, (Canada Year Book, 1973: 1). Overall, Canada's average population density ranks among the lowest in the world at approximately six persons per square mile in 1971

Citation · Immigration · Library science · Political science · Sociology · Canadian Policy and Governance · Computer Science · Law

Tools

Open DOISci-HubOpen Access