Grade 9 SS Population Unit

Why There are Where They Are

• Cities and towns are not established in random places

• In Atlantic Canada, most cities and towns are located next to natural resources – minerals, rivers, fishing grounds

Exercise 4-1

• Population distribution – where people live

• Mainly along the coast in NS

• More evenly distributed in PEI

Exercise 4-1

• Population density – how closely together people live

• People / km2

• PEI has a low population, but Canada’s highest population density

Exercise 4-2

• Slavery was a part of our Atlantic Canadian history

• It took place here until the early 1800s

• Once slavery ended in Canada, many American slaves settled here

Exercise 4-2

• Africville was a close-knit Black settlement in North End Halifax

• Residents were evicted in the 1960s without proper compensation

Exercise 4-3

• Some of the other historical events in Atlantic Canada were:

Early French and British settlement

Expulsion of the Acadians Arrival of Scottish settlers Arrival of the Loyalists

fleeing USA Arrival of Irish fleeing

famine

Exercise 4-4

• As of 2006, Atlantic Canada’s population is:

Rapidly aging Decreasing as a % of

Canada’s overall population Much less likely to be

foreign-born than ON, BC and PQ