Where is Canada's geographic centre of population?

[Docere]

The US geographic center of population is in Hartville, Missouri. I don't know what it is for Canada - any idea? It's got to be fairly near Toronto.

[Justanothermember]

I'm not sure why you always posts these types of threads with a fixation on comparing Canada to the US. It's always the same boring theme. I would find it more interesting to derive comparisons with other nations, such as Australia.

[Docere]

I'm not sure why you always posts these types of threads with a fixation on comparing Canada to the US. It's always the same boring theme. I would find it more interesting to derive comparisons with other nations, such as Australia.

Likewise, I think you're boring as well.

[Justanothermember]

Likewise, I think you're boring as well.

:haha:

I see you've entirely missed the point of my comment.

Carry on........

[Docere]

In 1986 it was in Richmond Hill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population

Here's a more recent map of every country:

https://vividmaps.com/centre-of-population/

[Docere]

To the Ignore list...

[Nouvellecosse]

:haha:

I see you've entirely missed the point of my comment.

Carry on........

With all due respect, if the point was to convey constructive criticism then that wasn't the communication style to use. Did you really think that he was going to say, "Hey, now that this person has insulted my entire thread creation history, I feel inspired to abandon my area of interest and change the thread topic to suit their personal taste!"

No... almost everyone will just feel defensive and return the insult. :koko:

[ScreamingViking]

Today: Collingwood? Or closer to Lake Huron? (near Southampton, or Port Elgin) Maybe farther south... Goderich, Walkerton.

If it's stayed within the GTHA I'm going to guess it's around Orangeville now.

[Nashe]

Creeps closer to Okotoks every year...

[MonctonRad]

Creeps closer to Okotoks every year...

:haha::haha::haha:

[Acajack]

I think the last time I read about this it was somewhere between Barrie and Toronto along the Highway 400 corridor.

[urbandreamer]

It's here
https://maps.app.goo.gl/TkA3pdcnV9L1QNG67

[ToxiK]

I think the last time I read about this it was somewhere between Barrie and Toronto along the Highway 400 corridor.

About 80-85 km south east of Barrie is the (self-proclaimed) center on the Universe...

[Docere]

The reason I mentioned Missouri is because the US Census Bureau has been tracking the geographic center of population since 1790.

[hipster duck]

There's the fancy and accurate way of calculating it, but a quick and dirty method would be to just take the weighted centre of the following 3 polygons:

- Southern and SW Ontario from Oshawa over
- Ottawa - Sherbrooke - Quebec City
- Victoria - Calgary - Edmonton

You'll be off, maybe by a few hundred kilometers, but not by thousands.

[Docere]

I wonder where it was in 1871 - the year of the first Canadian census. Western Quebec presumably.

[lio45]

How much would the BC Lower Mainland have to grow for our geographic center of population to move to the USA?

[lio45]

Interestingly, depending on how you define "Eastern Canada", I'm sure you can easily get a center of population that's in Northern Maine.

(For Atlantic Canada + Eastern Quebec.)

[Docere]

Population by region, 1680-2004:

https://uregina.ca/~gingrich/211canimm.htm

[jonny24]

The map shared by Docere of all countries, shows it being somewhere around Parry Sound or Huntsville.

[Docere]

The regional population distributions are quite interesting, and it's not a simple "movement west." The Prairies were the slow-growth region between 1930 and 1970. Quebec grew faster than Ontario in the country's first 80 years - presumably due to birth rates (Quebec had 88% of Ontario's population in 1951, compared to 73% in the first post-Confederation census). And Ontario actually increased its share from around a third in the mid-20th century to nearly 40% today. BC, meanwhile, went from least populated western province in 1931 to most populated western province in 1951.

[MolsonExport]

Creeps closer to Okotoks every year...

/thread.

:youmad:

[MolsonExport]

In the first half of the 20th century, the most populous western province was Saskatchewan, but its population was later eclipsed by British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba

[Docere]

Yup, of the four western provinces BC went from least to most populated and Saskatchewan from most to least populated.

[Docere]

The population of Saskatchewan declined by 7% between 1941 and 1951.