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The continuous rise in the immigrant population in Canada makes it increasingly important to monitor immigrant settlement outcome, including that of health. This paper reviews the immigrant health data development based on the wealth of information captured by different waves of population-based datasets, many of which housed at Statistics Canada, to conduct increasingly innovative studies of immigrant health in Canada. Particular attention was devoted to data linkages of administrative and survey databases made possible by recent technological and methodological advancements, especially those that involve the immigrant landing files with information on immigrant categories.