Acting local: Aging in Canada

Adapting to the aging population will look different in Lethbridge, Alberta than in Chatham-Kent, Ontario

October 11, 2012 | by Derek Miedema , Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Martel, L. and Ménard, F.P. (2012). The Canadian population in 2011: Age and sex. Ottawa: Statistics Canada. Retrieved from http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-311-x/98-311-x2011001-eng.cfm
  2. For highest population growth areas,  see http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-310-x/2011001/tbl/tbl3-eng.cfm
    For lowest population growth areas, see http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-310-x/2011001/tbl/tbl4-eng.cfm
    See Statistics Canada. (2012). Census metropolitan area (CMA) and census agglomeration (CA) in the census dictionary for definitions. Retrieved from http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/ref/dict/geo009-eng.cfm
  3. Statisics Canada. (2012). Census Profiles 2011, for Chatham-Kent CMA and Lethbridge, AB CMA. Retrieved from  http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CMA&Code1=556&Geo2=CMA&Code2=810&Data=Count&SearchText=Chatham-Kent&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=556&TABID=1
  4. Ibid.
  5. Economic Development Lethbridge. (2012).Key industries and sectors. Retrieved from http://www.chooselethbridge.ca/business/key_industry.php
  6. Economic Development Lethbridge. (2012). Major employers. Retrieved from http://www.chooselethbridge.ca/business/employers.php
  7. Ibid. See Figure D.35.a
  8. See endnote 3
  9. Martel, L. and Ménard, F.P. (2012). The Canadian population in 2011: Age and sex.
  10. Municipality of Chatham-Kent. (2012). Economic development: Business process outsourcing. Retrieved from http://www.chatham-kent.ca/EconomicDevelopment/KeyIndustriesandSectors/Pages/businessprocessoutsourcing.aspx
  11. Municipality of Chatham-Kent. (2012). Economic development: Agriculture. Retrieved from http://www.chatham-kent.ca/EconomicDevelopment/KeyIndustriesandSectors/Pages/agriculture.aspx
  12. Municipality of Chatham-Kent. (2012). Economic development: Agriculture. See Agricultural production, farms by industry, 2006 census. Retrieved from http://www.chatham-kent.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Business/Economic%20Development/Key%20Industries%20and%20Sectors/AgriculturalProduction.pdf
  13. Municipality of Chatham-Kent. (2012). Economic development: Agriculture.
  14. Municipality of Chatham-Kent. (2012). Welcome newcomers. Retrieved from http://www.chatham-kent.ca/Newcomers/Pages/Home.aspx
  15. Senior advisory committee of Chatham-Kent. (2012). Assisted living. Retrieved from http://ckseniors.ca/assisted-living/
  16. For a discussion of this reality in the City of Ottawa, read Miedema, D. (2009). Getting ready for the boom. Ottawa: Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Retrieved from http://www.imfcanada.org/issues/getting-ready-boom
  17. Milan, A. and Bohnert, N. (2012). Fifty years of families in Canada: 1961 to 2011. Ottawa: Statistics Canada. Retrieved from http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312-x/98-312-x2011003_1-eng.cfm#n2