Where is Canada's geographic centre of population?
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.
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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.
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I see you've entirely missed the point of my comment. Carry on........ |
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/ |
To the Ignore list...
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No... almost everyone will just feel defensive and return the insult. :koko: |
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. |
Creeps closer to Okotoks every year...
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I think the last time I read about this it was somewhere between Barrie and Toronto along the Highway 400 corridor.
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The reason I mentioned Missouri is because the US Census Bureau has been tracking the geographic center of population since 1790.
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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. |
I wonder where it was in 1871 - the year of the first Canadian census. Western Quebec presumably.
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How much would the BC Lower Mainland have to grow for our geographic center of population to move to the USA?
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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.) |
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The map shared by Docere of all countries, shows it being somewhere around Parry Sound or Huntsville.
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