page_title: South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Air India Memorial in Toronto Français&#160;: Le mémorial d'Air India à Toronto हिन्दी: टोरंटो में एयर इंडिया स्मारक मराठी: टोरंटो मधील एयर इंडिया स्मारक
context_page_description: South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 17% of the region's population, numbering 1 million as of 2016.
  Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area.
context_section_description: Indo-Canadians began to move to Toronto in the 1960s.
  Air India Flight 182 was bombed in 1985. The majority of the passengers resided in the Toronto area. In 2007 a memorial for Air India 182 opened in Toronto.
  From 1986 to 1995, over 140,000 persons of South Asian origin moved to the Toronto area. An additional 266,000 arrived from 1996 to 2006.
  By 2007 area South Asians had established philanthropic efforts.
caption: Air India Flight 182 memorial in Toronto
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