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Forty-six new Canadians were sworn in during a citizenship ceremony at Seneca College in Markham Fred Lum The Globe and Mail.
Forty-six new Canadians were sworn in during a citizenship ceremony at Seneca College in Markham Fred Lum The Globe and Mail.
Rapid change of Markham in the most diverse city in Canada Add to.
If you want to show visitors the miracle of the diversity of Toronto, don t take them to take the city of Markham's suburb in the northeast of the place growing the most diverse in Canada.
Statistics Canada, National Household Survey Canada showed that in 2011, 72 3 percent of the residents of Markham were visible minorities Places like this nonsense to the term for people with fair skin are those stick here Markham has a much higher proportion of visible minority residents that even Toronto 49 1 percent It puts other famous immigrant magnets such as 66 Brampton 4 percent, Mississauga and Richmond Hill 7 53 52 9 to shadow.
Last week, 46 new Canadians were sworn in during a citizenship ceremony at Seneca College in Markham The Globe and Mail.
In addition, visible minorities don t come from a diversity His community means more than just a lack of white faces People tend to see Markham, like neighboring Richmond Hill as subservient Chinese Large Chinese malls like Peachtree Kennedy Plaza and highway 7 reinforce this impression.
But if Markham 114.950 Chinese people who make up more than a third of the population and accounting for half of all residents of visible minorities, he also 57.375 South Asians, black 9715, 9020 Filipinos, 6185 originating Western, Arab Asia 3400, 3,160 Koreans, 2,750 South Asians and Latin Americans in 1600, according to the national household Survey Watch the national affiliate Markham figures and still looks over a rainbow his 300.135 souls, 4615 complaint Polish, Russian, 4240, 1610 Romanian, 6,900 Greek, Italian 13.130, 6.705 Jamaican, Guyanese 2485, 1800 Egypt, 600 South Africa, 6525 Iranian, 14175 Sri Lanka.
Among the smaller groups, 430 people list their history in Colombia, 235 in Belgium, 35 in Moldova and, yes, 15 as the Isle of Man, of the Isle of Man in the British Isles There are even 24150 that claim to obscure descent known as Canada.
What is most remarkable in all this how he became trivial Change can be traumatic and some Canadian communities have experienced such rapid and dramatic change Markham.
From a sleepy village settled by British, German and Swiss farmers in the 1800s, he grew up in a suburb postwar quiet streets and manicured lawns while a sprawling city business parks, offices, of mega-malls and large busiest boulevards.
Most recently, in 1976, the population was 56,000 in 1995, it had jumped to 161,000 at this time, projections show it could double to 300,000 by 2021 soon arrived only ten years between 2006 and 2011, Markham population has increased by 15 3 percent, three times the national average.
Visit Markham today and you see earthmovers tearing old cornfields for subdivisions vast new, showy new homes in the face of rubble in the streets of modest bungalows 1960s, parking lots bristling with brands BMW, Lexus and Porsche.
Yet the city has taken everything in stride It seems long another time when the Deputy Mayor Carole Bell made headlines and angered the Chinese community in 1995 complaining of all the malls of Asia have been on the rise.
The municipal government boasts positively changed the complexion of the city cover its action plan for diversity, called Welcome to all, shows laughing schoolchildren every complexion run a foot race.
The benefits of diversity, it is said, are evident; where else can you walk in malls, recreation centers, parks, schools, streets and enjoy the pleasures and wisdom of so many traditions both Markham is directly connected by ties of history and family, to every corner of our globalized world.
The diversity of Markham became so natural, so commonplace that it hardly seems remarkable to many of those who live in a citizenship ceremony at Seneca College this week, few seem to know was the most diverse community of Canada or Moreover, to worry.
Steve Parmeshwar Mahant came to Canada with his family as a refugee of Guyana His buddies were secondary Saudi Arabia, Guyana and the Caribbean When he went to university in Peterborough, many of his friends were now Caucasian he is back in Markham, he lives in a street with the people of Cuba, Sri Lanka, the Caribbean and other places people get along very well, he said matter-of-factly as they're good neighbors, it's all good.
Eugene Chan, 29, arrived in Hong Kong there are 13 years and is delighted to take the oath of citizenship with Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General's presence, he had no clue Markham holds the record for the diversity I see no problem with it I do not see any negatives town of Markham is a very peaceful city.
If people have complaints, they are mostly on things like traffic congestion, not the color of their skin neighbors.
Markham seems a world away from immigrant ghettos of downtown of the past, or for that matter in low-income pockets of the city center and inner suburbs where many newcomers are struggling to get by in a Toronto today Wellesley Institute report this month showed that 70 percent of immigrants interviewed in eastern Toronto reported an individual income of less than 30,000 per year.
Many people come in Markham for employment in the Hi-tech capital of Canada that the styles of the city itself, working in companies like IBM, Toshiba and Honeywell median household income in 2010 was 86,000, well -Dessus the national average of 61,000 Many come to open spaces and large new homes, as Sixty-four percent of households live in detached houses, compared to the national average of 55 percent.
Upwardly mobile, forward-looking, Markham na no time for small disputes of the past, he leans forward, moving at a run the suburbs and satellite cities will give us that energy and it is the formidable energy says Ms. Clarkson, who visited immigrant communities across the country people come here and they want to move forward.
This, more than any theoretical fuzzy embrace of multiculturalism, is what makes the work of the amazing diversity of Markham.
Editor's Note An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Steve Parmeshwar Mahant This version has been corrected.
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