The migration of population in and out of the Maritime Provinces has been a central concern during much of the last two centuries. We think that achieving a deeper understanding of migration dynamics will require much finer data and greater contextuality than currently available. In the medium-term, our geo-genealogy project will start generating this data. In the meantime, we are not without any resources.
We have taken scans of a table of the populations for towns and urban centres in Atlantic Canada for the census decades, 1871-1991. While the aggregate population numbers at a provincial or national level are readily available, it is harder to root out the numbers at the local levels.
We intend to transcribe the table and format it as a database, but are making it available now for review and analysis: Atlantic Urban Population (3.91MB).
Andrew Downs (1811-1892) created the first Zoological Gardens in North America in Dutch Village in 1847, at the head of the Northwest Arm, expanding it eventually to over 40 hectares (100 acres) in size. He was humble and gentle, a practicing naturalist, who saw Nature as the greatest Temple and set out to share it with the public at large, not as dead, sterile taxidermied mounts, but as a living menagerie, to be experienced by all.
