Vancouver
According to Statistics Canada census in 2001, the proportion of foreign-born Vancouver-rises to 37.5%, giving Vancouver the third largest in North America, behind Toronto (43.7%) and Miami (40.2 %). In comparison, the proportion of immigrants in New York is 24.4% and that of Montreal is 18.4%. Vancouver also ranks at the top of Canadian regions for the proportion of visible minorities in 2001, with a percentage of 40%.
Between 1981 and 1996, according to statistics from British Columbia, 86.4% of Vancouver's immigrants from abroad were from Asia and only 3.5% of the European continent. According to the Census of Canada in 2001, 34% of Greater Vancouver is Asian. In this number, 17.9% came from China, 7.22% of eastern India, the Philippines and 3.13%. In comparison, the proportion of the Asian population in Montreal stood at 6.89%.
The Asian influence is everywhere in Vancouver on all economic sectors. The bonds that the city has with other countries in the Pacific to Vancouver can be the Canadian city with the least economically dependent on the United States. Chinatown, one of the three largest continent, is almost as old as the city itself. Vancouver is a mix of ethnicities and religions. It has the third largest Chinatown in North America (after New York and San Francisco). However, most of the vast Chinese population is out of this neighborhood. The district is Punjabi vendors tissue in the center of Main Street. However it is in the city of Surrey - a suburb of Vancouver - the most lives. Before the handover of Hong Kong to China by the United Kingdom, many of its inhabitants who have settled in Vancouver. Therefore it is also the nickname Hongcouver.
Downtown Vancouver (Eastside)
Downtown Vancouver is located on a peninsula surrounded by Stanley Park, Burrard Inlet, False Creek and English Bay (Français Bay). The center continues east on the only limit that is not surrounded by water. The Downtown Eastside is located mainly east of the peninsula which earned him his name from the Downtown Eastside. The district includes Gastown, Chinatown, Victory Square, Thornton Park, Strathcona, Oppenheimer, and some industrial land corridor Hastings. Specifically, the district is located between the Burrard Inlet to the north, and Pender Street Terminal to the south, east to Clark Avenue and Richards Street to the west. With 205 hectares, this area represents less than 2% of the territory of the city.
The Downtown Eastside, also called East Hastings is the poorest neighborhood in Canada and a particularly high for crime in Vancouver. In this sense, it does not really Gastown is a tourist street. In this area, injecting drug users to open, and the sharing of syringes among others has led to a strong presence of AIDS. The most concentrated near downtown homeless, while the prostitutes and hotels are going more to the other end.