Toronto expecting 2,600 privately-sponsored Syrian refugees, government map shows

Around 2,600 privately-sponsored Syrian refugees will be settling in Toronto, according to a mapreleased by the Government of Canada.

Of the refugees who are coming to the GTA, the two largest groups areheading to Toronto. The city'sdowntown and mid-town will receive1,326 refugees.Willowdale will host1,079 refugees.

Though decisions are not final, the government has released a map of destination communities which itsays is "a representation of communities where private sponsors have put forth an application for a Syrian refugee."

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The federal government's goal is to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of February, 2016.

Most of these will be government-assistedrefugees but many others will be privately sponsored by organizations and groups of Canadians.

The government says as of Nov. 24, it isactively processing more than 4,500 files of privately-sponsored Syrian refugees outside of Quebec and 74 have already arrived in Canada since Nov. 4.

Here is a list of how many privately-sponsored refugees communities in Toronto and the GTA can expect:

• Toronto downtown andmidtown, 1,326

• Willowdale, 1,079

• Etobicoke, 18

• Scarborough, 156

• North York, 23

• Thornhill, 33

• Maple, 11

• Woodbridge, 7

• Mississauga, 68

• Brampton, 18

• Vaughan, less than 5

• Concord, 9

• Aurora, less than 5

• Newmarket, 5

• Pickering, less than 5

• Ajax, less than 5

• Stouffville, 5