I don't understand all the local government terminology in Canada. A lot of places are a name and a number. Fort McMurray isn't even incorporated, but "Wood Buffalo" gained 10,000 people??
Fort McMurray amalgamated with its surrounding improvement district to make Wood Buffalo. It's certainly a boom town it the tar sands up there. That's why it's growing so fast.
It is certainly nice to see a lot of the cities that lost people in the 1996-2001 gain some back. Especially in Northern Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.
That was another thing I noticed, whats an "improvement district"?
I noticed that all the statistics were released today. Our Census Bureau staggers the information: the National and State numbers come out in late December, the county populations come out between March 10 and April 10m, (Any day now!). The City and Town populations come out in Late June/Early July and the racial statistics and other info comes out in September.
Its interesting that Canada's Parliament keeps expanding, while ours has been stuck at 435 for nearly a century. Canada and the U.K. both have about 100,000 people per seat, while we have 647,000. That is just sad.
It is. Canada is so sparsely populated, but there's little to do when a huge chunk of the country is so cold.
