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Originally Posted by Spocket
Just a small correction : For Mac isn't on the prairies. It's basically in the northern wilds. Nearest farm has to be a couple hundred kilometers away.
Also , Fort Mac is truly a modern day boom town in every sense of the word. It's easy to build in a place like Fort Mac due to the fact that all of about three people actually live there on a permanent basis. Okay , yes , I'm grossly exaggerating but with a severe housing shortage , a major portion of the population being transient , and major population projections , it's like the perfect storm for grand building plans.
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I believe he was just talking about Western Canada in general, as cities of 200 000 out here (Regina, Saskatoon) have skylines comparable to cities of 500 000 back east.
Actually, the vast majority of the population of the city is permanent.
The total population of Wood Buffalo Regional Municipality is 116 000 as of 2012 municipal census, with a permanent population of 74,631, a shadow population of 2,505, and a project accommodation population of 39,271.
That said, the population of the Urban Service Area (city) of Fort McMurray, as of the 2012 municipal census, was 73 000, with a permanent population of 71 000, and a shadow population of 2000, with a project accommodation population of 0.
http://www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca/Municip...us-Reports.htm
Fort McMurray is a city, with a large permanent population.
Projections put the permanent population of Wood Buffalo at around 102 000 by 2019, and 110 000 by 2026. Under the medium growth scenario. Over 90% of Wood Buffalo's permanent population resides in the Urban Service Area of Fort McMurray.
http://www.countygp.ab.ca/assets/Dep...02012-2041.pdf