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“Not having Statistics Canada data would be like driving on the highway with no steering wheel and not knowing where you’re going,” laughed Maryse Fredette, Director of Development, Businesses and Services at the Société de développement économique de Drummondville (SDED), a non-profit organization deemed to be the “economic arm” of the city and 16 neighbouring municipalities.

The town of Matane, located on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, was home to 18,474 people according to the 2021 Census of Population, 420 fewer compared with five years earlier.

Approximately one in eight Indigenous people (237,420 people) reported they could speak one of 70 distinct Indigenous languages well enough to conduct a conversation in 2021, 10,750 fewer people compared with 2016, and the first decline since comparable data started being collected in 1991.

Considering that moving is deemed among the top five most stressful life events, what reasons make Canadians go through the stress and aggravation of moving?

As of December 2022, there were 16,367 business locations across Canada in the traveller accommodation industry group. They include facilities such as hotels, motor hotels, resorts, motels, casino hotels, bed and breakfast homes, and housekeeping cottages and cabins, as well as other types, such as hostels and tourist lodges.

Port Alberni and its surroundings are renowned for salmon fishing and as a desirable retirement destination due to a warm climate, outdoor recreation and affordable housing. Census data show that the population in Port Alberni and nearby communities grew by 4.5% from 2016 to 2021, which was below the national growth rate of 5.2%.

Managed by the Public Sector Statistics Division, the Centre for Municipal and Local Data (CMLD) is the product of an ongoing partnership with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Statistics Canada’s Disaggregated Data Action Plan. This portal provides citizens, businesses and political decision makers with the statistics they need to make informed decisions about their local community.