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Agriculture has the largest number of reliant communities. Its 808 communities are found predominantly in the Prairie Provinces, but there are also several groups of these communities in parts of Ontario, southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces.
The next largest group is forestry-reliant communities. The 651 communities of this sector are spread across Canada, being found throughout British Columbia and to the north of the farming areas in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
There are much smaller numbers of communities reliant on energy, fisheries and mining (about 200 in each group). Energy-reliant communities are found predominantly in western Canada in the oil- and gas-producing parts of Canada. Fisheries communities are found on both coasts. Mining-reliant communities are probably the most widely distributed of all resource locations: the pattern reflects the locations of both production sites and the industrial centres that do primary processing of the minerals.
An important pattern that cannot be shown on this map is the population size of the resource-reliant communities. Most are relatively small — only five have more than 100 000 people. Calgary and Hamilton are the only two communities with a population of more than 200 000. There are a further 84 communities with between 10 000 and 100 000 people. The majority of the communities (1400) have fewer than 2000 inhabitants.
The Data
and Mapping Notes provide more detailed information on the methodology and the 2001 Census data used to measure resource reliance. |
