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Or the city of Kitchener, Ontario for another example. Guelph with easily over 100K is virtually unknown in the rest of Canada but it is a thriving University city along with Kitchener Waterloo right next door.
More university students arrive hereabouts from all over the planet than arguably anywhere else in Canada.
The expressed interest in any other part of the country is limited by the desire or need to know.
i am only trying to explain why very few people care about a small town with 100k residents.
Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are 12 million people, out of a total of 34M for the country. They are not everything, but these three cities alone are more than one third of the entire country.
Chandler, AZ has 250K, have you heard or cared about it? Palmdale, a remote suburb of LA, has 140K, do you know about it? Why should people care about St John's.
Lol do you think anyone in newfoundland cares about toronto?
Canadians generally don't care about stuff outside there region.
Of course we'll watch tv and sports from the region, but in person, you gotta realize how little people care about toronto.
Actually to be perfectly honest most of the country couldn't care less about toronto.
Canadians aren't good with geography, other than memorizing names.
Canadian geographical knowledge generally sucks, although there are some exceptions. Knowledge of Canadian history and civics in general is pretty deficient too.
Canadian geographical knowledge generally sucks, although there are some exceptions. Knowledge of Canadian history and civics in general is pretty deficient too.
Agreed, it's insane, for years we use to rib on american's for making ignorant statements about igloo's, mounties, and polarbears, now they know better.
Yet we seem to know less about our own country than they do.
I'm still dumbfounded, about how much I learned about canadian geo in just the last year.
We need to give Canadian's a little more credit. Overall, we know enough about the country to not look like fools... although, I had a person from Toronto ask if you could see the mountains from Calgary? Really? Come on!
We need to give Canadian's a little more credit. Overall, we know enough about the country to not look like fools... although, I had a person from Toronto ask if you could see the mountains from Calgary? Really? Come on!
Seems like a fair enough question, you can see them in lots of skyline shots of Calgary.
i am only trying to explain why very few people care about a small town with 100k residents.
Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are 12 million people, out of a total of 34M for the country. They are not everything, but these three cities alone are more than one third of the entire country.
Chandler, AZ has 250K, have you heard or cared about it? Palmdale, a remote suburb of LA, has 140K, do you know about it? Why should people care about St John's.
Half a million people in Newfoundland is pretty relevant, especially when you consider Canada as a whole only has 34-35 million and many Newfoundlanders live outside of the province, mostly in Alberta. NL is 2% of Canada's population, which would be like an American state with 6 million people.
Half a million people in Newfoundland is pretty relevant, especially when you consider Canada as a whole only has 34-35 million and many Newfoundlanders live outside of the province, mostly in Alberta. NL is 2% of Canada's population, which would be like an American state with 6 million people.
I think it's even more important when you realize that atlantic canada combined make's up 10 percent of anglo canada, and closer to 20 percent of the white english speaking population, through the combination of migrants and those at home.
Than you have to throw in how these population figures have changed over time, as it truly wasn't that long ago that atlantic canada made up half the anglo population of the country.
Irregardless population figures are useful to understand a place and how it works, but very poor in assigning it's importance.
It's almost comical to hear torontonians talk about the lifestyle options of a the big city, when you realize the advantage we have in the east.
A cottage on a lake, a garden, places to fish, and a back yard ice rink, is something that only the rich can dream of in toronto, yet is quite easy to have in many place's outside of the southern ontario.
Low population numbers are often an advantage in terms of most lifestyle choices.
The reason that cities grow much faster isn't because there better to live in, but simply it's easier to invest in a city than a town.
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