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Is Canada entering a period of demographic shift to the West?
Is Canada entering a period of demographic shift towards the west, similar to what began in the United States in the 1950s?
Western Canada now holds 11.2 million, or just under 1/3 of the Canadian population, similar to the proportion of the American population in the Mountain and Pacific (Western) States. However, it seems that there is a trend beginning here in the prairies where the west has been increasing their share of the national population on a quarterly basis (about 0.053% per quarter). If the development of the $20 trillion worth of Natural Gas recently discovered in Northern British Columbia comes to fruition, the population shift to the west could accelerate significantly.
What was the original cause for the shift to the American West 6 decades ago? Was it due to resources/industry? Or mostly for the warm climate? Are there similarities between the history of the American demographic shift and the one currently ongoing in Canada?
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