Celebrating immigrant success
Presenting the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award winners of 2024
Canada’s population is booming thanks to immigration. People from all over the world choose Canada as their adopted home — making it a better place in the process. The Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards have been focused on celebrating these immigrants since its launch 16 years ago.
Presented by Western Union, the Top 25 awards share the inspiring success stories of immigrants and refugees who come from diverse cultures and backgrounds, from coast to coast. This year’s program is also sponsored by COSTI Immigrant Services and Windmill Microlending.
The 2024 list includes a famed comic book author, a celebrity chef, a college president, a provincial politician, plus entrepreneurs, academics, filmmakers, poets and more! We’re also again celebrating a Youth Award winner and the COSTI Entrepreneur Award recipient.
“For 16 years, we have been amazed by the stories of our Top 25 recipients,” says Sanjay Agnihotri, publisher, Canadian Immigrant. “As newcomers come to Canada to start new lives, it’s important for them to have role models to look up to, like our Top 25. Congratulations to all of this year’s inductees, and thank you to Western Union for being our partner in the awards.”
The Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2024 were chosen after an extensive nomination, judging, shortlisting and public online voting process. Thank you to our esteemed panel of judges made up of past recipients: Edward Cruz, Archana Medhekar, Hanen Nanaa and Raymond Ngarboui.
In addition to the Top 25, we’re also pleased to introduce the second annual Windmill Microlending Empowerment Award, which recognizes an individual who works above and beyond to empower and support the successful journeys of immigrants and refugees to Canada.