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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Canada is full? With all those wide open spaces? And just look at these tiny islands where we are still packing people in like sardines. Madness?
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In a sense Canada is full ... most of the people in Canada live within 200 miles of the US border and in the major cities, particularly Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. In the province of Manitoba, for example, over 600,000 people out of the 900,000 in the province live in Winnipeg. Much of our country is forrest, Canadian Shield, and Prairies. Then there are the mountains in the west and the immense and sparsely populated areas of the North and the high Arctic. In Saskatchewan, a major wheat growing province, there are fewer than a million people. Most of them live on farming, ranching, mining (most of the world's potash and uranium, with hard rock minerals and gold). The central and northern parts of the province comprise mainly forrest and lakes. The two major cities, Regina and Saskatoon, are closely linked to agriculture. A new boom in the oil industry (Athabasca tar sands) is just starting. Saskatchewan is more than twice as big as England, yet its economy, lacking as it does any major industries apart from the resource industries, supports only a relatively small population. The most industrialised areas are in southern Ontario, and the area of Quebec around Montreal. So in a sense, Canada is full.
Sorry about the extensive geography lesson
