A Census Agglomeration, or CA, to a Census Metropolitan Area, or CMA.
When you talk about population it is important to know whether you are referring to how many people are inside the city limits or what we could call the Greater Saskatoon area.
As the 20th century began the city was home to about 300 people. Three decades later at the start of the dirty 30's the population of this city had grown to over 43,000.
At the start of the baby boom in 1946 there were 46,000 inhabitants and that grew over 20 years into the mid 60's to 115,000. By the mid 70's we hovered around the 134,000 mark and by 1986, the year we surpassed the capital city of the province known as Regina. Saskatoon became Saskatchewan's largest city, we were close to 178,000.
Jump ahead to 2006, 5 years ago, and we were at 208,000. The city provides population updates twice each year and on Dec 31, 2010 we were at 224,300. The next estimate will be in a couple of weeks on June 30.
I don't have a sharp point to all this except it's interesting to see how fast we are growing. At this rate we'll be at a quarter of a million before we can blink an eye and don't bet against reaching 150,000 in the next five years. And, I'm talking about just the city, not the CMA which includes all the so called bedroom communities within a half hour or so drive.
Hold on to your hats because the evolution continues from small prairie city to big metropolis.
It worked....as I just arrived home. My apologies for how this did come out with the audio.
ReplyDeleteThere's a big construction going on. I pressumed this is going to be a subdivision. Your audio comes blurry at times but coming cleared and understandable. thanks for sharing it to us Jack.
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