Choose the suburbs!
Broadcast Date: Aug. 13, 1992
Canadians choose suburb over city in 1992. A Statistics Canada study says 13,000 more people a year move to the suburbs than to urban destinations. Also this year, Chatelaine magazine rated a Montreal suburb one of the best places to live in Canada. Kirkland made the magazine's top 10 list because of its rural flare, job opportunities and unusually low crime rate. In this TV clip, suburbanites tell the CBC why it's so great where they live.Choose the suburbs!
• Not having to commute to a job in the city is often considered a luxury to suburbanites. At the time of the Chatelaine article, large pharmaceutical, kitchenware and electronic companies located within Kirkland provided ample job opportunities. The regional employment rate was 88.3 per cent.
• By comparison, in big Canadian cities for September 1992, the Census Metropolitan Area employment rate was 65.4 per cent.
• Around the time of the Chatelaine article, Kirkland's mayor asked police to increase the town's car patrol. He was told the crime rate was too low to do so.
• In 1992, Kirkland's population of 118,000 was mainly French, English and Italian.
• That year, a three-bedroom house in Kirkland cost $115,000.
• The town is on the West Island of Montreal, 30 kilometres from downtown.
• According to Chatelaine, the other top nine communities in 1992 were:
- Penticton (British Columbia)
- Okotoks (Alberta)
- Prince Albert (Saskatchewan)
- Sarnia (Ontario)
- Waterloo (Ontario)
- Sussex (New Brunswick)
- Truro (Nova Scotia)
- Charlottetown (Price Edward Island)
- Grand Falls-Windsor (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Choose the suburbs!
Medium: Television
Program: Newswatch
Broadcast Date: Aug. 13, 1992
Guest(s): Jean Doré
Reporter: Jonathan Freed
Duration: 2:00
Last updated:
March 6, 2008
Choose the suburbs!.
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