[Paper Boy]

Hi everyone. 3rd Post (have been a silent viewer for years - decided to join because this site has become so popular that most of the time non-users are locked out due to traffic) Great Forum.

I am surprised this has not been posted

Population and growth components July 2006 Stats Can



Metro POP Growth in 12 mo
Toronto 5,406,324 95,551
Montréal 3,666,280 29,506
Vancouver 2,236,068 22,677
Ottawa-Gatineau 1,158,314 7,193
Calgary 1,107,242 39,295
Edmonton 1,050,046 27,109
Québec 723,263 8,464
Hamilton 716,230 2,763
Winnipeg 706,749 2,149
London 465,720 2,059
Kitchener 463,644 5,683
St. Catharines-Niagara 396,754 252
Halifax 382,203 1,620
Oshawa 344,374 5,923
Victoria 334,332 2,158
Windsor 332,066 570
Saskatoon 235,464 662
Regina 198,316 118
St. John's 181,394 175
Sherbrooke 164,685 1,067
Greater Sudbury  161,983 231
Abbotsford 161,911 1,363
Kingston 154,971 -714
Saguenay 152,132 -382
Trois-Rivières 142,614 1,024
Saint John 125,944 -482
Thunder Bay 125,359 -845

[bluenoser]

I think we all need to start having more babies. Recruiting immigrants is just too competitive these days.

[Smevo]

^hahaha...agreed. Welcome to the forum, Paper Boy.

[ssiguy]

In reality Metro Toronto should be more like the GTA because if there wasn't a sign you would never know you had even left Metro Toronto west to Burlington or east to Whitby/Oshawa. The only reason they are not included is because they are already their own CMA {Burl to Ham}.

You know what that means?...........It means the GTA has a greater population than Montreal AND Vancouver.
I don't think that has ever happened where our largest city was bigger than our 2nd and 3rd combined.
Funny to think it was just 30 short years ago when Montreal was still our largest city.

[Xelebes]

I think we all need to start having more babies. Recruiting immigrants is just too competitive these days.

Try telling that to the ladies. Hasn't worked for me yet. I hate to be adding to the costs on health care so often.

[ssiguy]

BTW due to StatsCan changing their definition of CMA to having from pop over 100,000 metro and the single city core to just needing 100,000 with the core city only need 50,000 that means there will be a few additions.
Kelowna and Barrie will be the big ones with both 150,000 and I beleive Peterborough, Moncton, and Brantford will also qualitfy and acheive CMA status.
I don't know about Red Deer but it should be. Right now they only include the city not the many populace towns litterally connected to it. I beleive it would be nearly or just over 100,000. It certainly would be if they included Lacombe which is just 11km away with 11,000

[PPAR]

Calgary added more people than Montreal and Edmonton added more people than Vancouver last year!
Must be some truth to the rumours of an Alberta boom.

[ssiguy]

I also forgot that Guelph will definatly be a new CMA.

Its true that Cal beat Mon and Edm beat Van but they didn't gain much more.
Alberta is booming but relativley its still small compared to Ontario and Quebec .
It is a decent size compared to BC thou and its GDP is already bigger and even if Alberta's pop growth slows down by a full % point it will overtake BC within the next 20 years.

[Wooster]

USE THE OTHER THREAD THAT IS ALREADY ON PG 2. THIS ONE IS DUPLICATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :whip: