Posted Mar 28, 2014, 2:12 AM
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Salty Town
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Halifax
Posts: 2,064
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Colin May
The outward growth is at least 50 years old and had many causes. The city of Halifax was the peninsula until the city grabbed a part of the county beyond Armdale rotary. Dartmouth population exploded after the construction of the MacDonald bridge and at the time of the 1995 amalgamation the city had as many people as peninsula Halifax.
Here is the population of peninsula Halifax from 1871-2011 ( official census)
1871 : 29,582
1881 : 36,100
1891 : 38,437
1901 : 40,832
1911 : 46,619
1921 : 58,372
1931 : 59,275
1941 : 70,488
1951 : 85,589
1961 : 92,511
1971 : 79,240
1981 : 65,943
1991 : 63,035
2001 : 61,584
2011 : 62,900
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I've seen these stats before and I find it very hard to believe that in 1961 there were 29,611 more people on the peninsula then in 2011.
Where did they live? That is 60 large footprint 10 storey buildings with no new apartment buildings built since 1961. Impossible.
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