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Volume 3, Issue 04
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Oldtimers’ Classic clownin’ around The Hanson Brothers were in Leamington on Saturday, February 18 for the 11th annual Oldtimers’ Hockey Challenge Classic. The trio played with the Boston Bruins Alumni team on Saturday night on the Heinz Arena. They were at Lally Southpoint Ford on Saturday morning for a meet and greet. Pictured here with their corresponding bobble-heads are, from left, Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson and Dave Hanson of the 1977 hit Slapshot. Ray Bourque is pictured above as captain of the Bruins Alumni. Other featured players included Rick Middleton, Terry O’Reilly, Chris Nilan and Dave Ellett. Heinz Arena was filled with fans young and old, and added another approximately $20,000 to the $210,000 raised to date from this event for WE Care For Kids. (SUN Photos)
Population of Leamington down 1.5% according to 2011 Census Canada’s population has doubled in past 50 years!
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The Municipality of Leamington was one of several communities in Essex County that registered negative population growth since 2006. Statistics Canada begins to paint a statistical portrait of the nation this month with the release of the first data from the 2011 Census of Population covering population and dwelling counts. The results were released on February 8 on Statistics Canada’s website (www.statcan.gc.ca). This first release of information covers detailed data on population and dwelling counts for Canada, the provinces and territories, for all municipalities and for many other levels of geography down to the block level. The Municipality of Leamington’s population was down 430 people (-1.5%). In 2006 Leamington had a population of 28,833 and in 2011 that number dipped to 28,403. “This obviously needs to be taken very seriously as we, the Municipality, plan for the future,” said Leamington’s Deputy-Mayor Charlie Wright. Nationally, Canada’s population grew by 5.9 %. Canada’s population growth was the highest among G8 countries. On May 10, 2011 33,476,688 people were enumerated in the Census. This is almost twice as many as in 1961 (18,239,000) and approximately ten times as many is in the 1861 (3,174,442) Census. Other Essex County municipalities which showed a decrease included Es-
sex at -2.2%; Amherstburg at -.09%; Tecumseh at -2.5%; and Windsor at -2.6%. Windsor’s population dropped from 216,473 in 2006 to 210,891 in 2011 – a displacement of 5,582 people. Lakeshore enjoyed the largest increase in population at 3.9% (34,546), followed by LaSalle at 3.6% (28,643) and Kingsville at 2.2% (21,362). The population of all provinces and two of three territories increased between 2006 and 2011. Nationally, the highest rate of growth occurred in Yukon, where the population increased 11.7% between 2006 and 2011. Among the provinces, Alberta (+10.8%) had the fastest growth rate. The rate of population growth was higher in all provinces and territories between 2006 and 2011 than it was between 2001 and 2006, except in Ontario, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The largest increases in the growth rates between the two five-year periods occurred in Saskatchewan, Yukon, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. Three other releases from the 2011 Census of Population are scheduled: • Age and sex: May 29, 2012 • Families, households and marital status / Structural type of dwelling and collectives: September 19, 2012 • Language: October 24, 2012.
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