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Originally Posted by Architype
The two cities' populations closely parallel each other up until around 1975, so the cause or catalyst is pretty clear.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig1_227717868
So, briefly, and simplistically stated, the article says that the size etc. of a city depends upon the size of its hinterland (sphere of influence), and that depends on things like language and culture. When Montreal stopped being a city which is inclusive of English, and became a de facto French speaking city, it's hinterland and sphere of influence, shrunk drastically, inhibiting growth. Montreal today is a city relatively starved of meaningful and copious outside cultural or social interaction (especially in the economic sense from the Anglosphere), except those within the province. Here is an excerpt from an older quoted text.
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...nd_Toronto#pf3 |
The metrics used here to calculate Toronto's population in the 40's are substantially inflating it because they're counting everything within the post-amalgamation metropolitan area.
Willowdale , Black Creek, Don Mills were their own towns and communities and didn't identify with Toronto proper anywhere to the same extent they do today.
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