Canada's 2006 Census numbers released today!

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Woohoo!

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Tables.cfm

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How often do they do a census?

Wrong forum btw

Every 5 years.

And how is a forum called "Demographics" wrong for census information

Riding borders wont change until after the 2011 census I'm afraid. But, we could always do a fantasy reapportionment. I can do the formula if y'all want me to.

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Ok, here is the formula:

Take the population of Canada (31,612,897) and subtract the three territories from it (31,511,587) and divide that number by 279 to get the national quotient  (112,945). Now, divide each province by this number...

Newfoundland and Labrador (4) (they have to have at least  7)
Prince Edward Island (1)  (have to have at least  4)
Nova Scotia (8 ) (have to have  at least 11)
New Brunswick (6) (have to have  at least 10)
Quebec (67) (have to have at least  75)
Ontario (108) (+2) (have to have at least 95)
Manitoba (10) (have to have  at least 14)
Saskatchewan (9) (have to have at least 14)
Alberta (29) (+1) (have to have at least 21)
British Columbia (36) (no change) (have to have at least 28)

and of course, each of the territories are excluded from this, and they get one seat each. Due to special clauses, none of the provinces can lose seats under this scenario.

So, Alberta would gain one seat and Ontario would gain two seats, making the House of Commons a 311 seat legislature.

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And how is a forum called "Demographics" wrong for census information

When it's a Canadian census and the board is a child of U.S. General Discussion.

Oh please. I could swear I saw some British stuff here somewhere.

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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.

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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.

We stagger our results too. The specifics come out later (ie income and gender, race, etc.).

Btw, Im not too sure what an improvement district is, not living in Alberta and all. I don't think they are incorporated for one thing. I could be wrong. I do know, Alberta used to have tons of them, but there are only a few left.  Most have turned into counties.