Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Canada's citizenship and immigration programs help build a community of citizens respected throughout the world. Visit our Web site often for up-to-date information about us and our services. Every year, Canada welcomes thousands of new residents. Coming to Canada as an immigrant is an exciting opportunity, but also a great challenge.

Immigration and Refugee Board
The IRB is Canada's largest independent administrative tribunal. Its mission is to make well-reasoned decisions on immigration and refugee matters, efficiently, fairly, and in accordance with the law. Our values and ethics are at the heart of how we operate as a tribunal.

Canada First Immigration Reform Committee
Immigration 101 - the complete primer for anyone interested in immigration reform. Look through our extensive library of immigration related material and make up your own mind if immigration is the "saviour of Canada." Includes pictorial essays, stats, the myths of immigration, health factors of immigration, and much much more.

Canada Visa and Immigration resources
Canada Visa and Immigration resources, and United States Visa and Immigration resources. Links to Canadian and United States employment resources and more.

The Myths of Immigration
Queens University Professor smashes the myths and provides interesting insight on Canadian Immigration. Wisdom on Immigration: The Cheap drives out the good.

Forced Migration Online
Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users.

Canada Immigration
Canada is one of the few countries in the Western World that is actively looking for immigrants. Not only is it easier to emigrate to Canada than to other lands of opportunity, it is also probably one of the most attractive countries in which to live. The United Nations recently gave Canada the top rating for the best place to live in the World. What makes it so attractive?

Canada Internetional
Welcome to CanadaInternational.gc.ca. Here you will find the best links to government services, information and resources, for citizens of other countries.

Accommodations Canada - Travel & Lodging Directory
With over 70,000 pages being viewed each month, Accommodations Canada - TravelNet is your one stop vacation directory for finding a wide variety of lodging accommodations and travel information in Canada.

The Interprovincial Migration of Immigrants to Canada
Whether talking about an inter–provincial, an inter–urban, or an urban–rural phenomenon, migration patterns are drawing more and more interest from policy makers. As services are devolved from federal to provincial agencies, and as our metropolitan centres become increasingly diverse along cultural lines, the effects of population movements, in particular the movement of immigrants across provinces and between cities, must be more clearly understood.

CANADA'S FIRST NATIONS
The scientific methods employed in the construction of origin theories of Canada's First Nations peoples are diverse and the results are inconclusive. Skeletal evidence of what is believed to be the first modern human, or homo sapien, was found in Africa and is dated to 40,000 years ago. Based upon this information, scientists place the origin of the human species outside of the Americas. This is contrary to the belief of First Nations peoples. According to their oral tradition, they originated in North America and did not migrate from somewhere else. Scientists from several different disciplines support theories of migration from Asia to the Americas, but they disagree over when, how or why the first humans came to the Americas.

Emigration Information of the Nineteenth Century
The information on these pages has been extracted from various government records, as well as the odd shipping record (mostly from the Allan Line). It contains, voyage accounts, emigration information, lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on the ports, and on the people. Many of these lists give the name of the ship, Master, Port of Departure, Port of Arrival and other such information. Some list the organization which sponsored the emigrants. Since passenger lists are rarely available for the early ships which came to Canada there are few of those, but other sources are being sought. The Immigration reports of the government sometimes contain names, but only rarely.

Canada: Policy Legacies, New Directions, and Future Challenges
Canada is one of only a handful of nations where social and cultural change fueled by immigration is perhaps the only enduring societal constant. Two recent developments are sure to keep immigration at the center of public debate and policy discussions: Canada's new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and the latest census data.

Globalization & Migration
Migration is not a new thing. People have always left their homes in search of better economic opportunities, both within and outside of their own homeland. But economic globalization has put a new spin on global migration, causing global uprootedness and human displacement on an unprecedented scale. Because economic globalization exacerbates the inequalities between nations, migration for many becomes not a choice, but an economic necessity.