The population of the Toronto CMA was 4,680,300 in 1999. The population of the city proper stood at 653,734 in 1996, up from 635,395 in 1991. Toronto's CMA is the most populous in Canada; Montréal, in the province of Québec, is second largest at 3,438,500 (1999 estimate).
After 1945, job opportunities in Toronto were so great that a large influx of European immigrants from many countries contributed to the city's population growth. In some years of the 1950s Canada actually received more immigrants than the United States, even though the United States had ten times as many people. The largest share came to Toronto. In the 1960s and later, fewer immigrants came from Europe, where economies had become stronger. Instead, more immigrants arrived from the Caribbean islands and Asia.
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