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The head of Statistics Canada is the chief statistician of Canada. The heads of Statistics Canada and the previous organization, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, are: Robert H. Coats (1918–1942) Sedley A. Cudmore (1942–1945) Herbert Marshall (1945–1956) Walter E. Duffett (1957–1972) Sylvia Ostry (1972–1975) Peter G. Kirkham (1975 ...
Statistics Canada conducts a national census of population and census of agriculture every five years and releases the data with a two-year lag.. The Census of Population provides demographic and statistical data that is used to plan public services such as health care, education, and transportation; determine federal transfer payments; [1] and determine the number of Members of Parliament for ...
February 8, 2017, for boundary files (second edition), reference maps (second edition), attribute information products (GeoSuite and geographic attribute file), and reference guides and documents (second edition). The release dates for data by release topic from the 2016 census are: [10] February 8, 2017, for population and dwelling counts;
Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, [10] while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.
Canada's fertility rate hit a record low of 1.4 children born per woman in 2020, [30] below the population replacement level, which stands at 2.1 births per woman. In 2020, Canada also experienced the country's lowest number of births in 15 years, [30] also seeing the largest annual drop in childbirths (−3.6%) in a quarter of a century. [30]
See 1990 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Books in Canada First Novel Award: Sandra Birdsell, The Missing Child; Geoffrey Bilson Award: Kit Pearson, The Sky Is Falling; Gerald Lampert Award: Steven Heighton, Stalin's Carnival; Marian Engel Award: Carol Shields
July 9 – The Canada men's national under-19 basketball team wins the 2017 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup for the first time. [60] September 23 to September 30 – The 2017 Invictus Games are held in Toronto; November 4 – Georges St-Pierre becomes 1st Canadian UFC Middleweight Champion by defeating Michael Bisping at UFC 217. [61]
In 1989, with a million children living in poverty in Canada, members of parliament voted unanimously to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. [2] By 2013, the rate child poverty in Canada was higher than it was in 1989, and was approaching the poverty rates of the mid-1970s in spite of the growth of Canada's economy between 1981 and 2010. [2]