Answer #1

It depends which way you look. Looking east of Ontario, the provinces are becoming more rural -- a larger share of the population lives in rural areas now than in 1971. Meanwhile, provinces west of Ontario have become more urban. And Ontario holds the balance between east and west by maintaining the same percentage of rural dwellers today as it did two decades ago. For Canada as a whole, there's been little change since 1971; urban areas still have three quarters of the Canadian population.

This excerpt is from Transition (March 1997), published by the Vanier Institute of the Family.

Posted by the Vanier Institute of the Family, July 1997.

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