ICYMI: Corner Brook caught in 'kind of the perfect storm': Newfoundland's west coast hub's population could shrink by 17 per cent in the next 20 years | SaltWire
Between 2016 and 2021, Corner Brook's population declined from 19,806 to 19,333.Special to SaltWire Network
“Our focus has been shifting towards immigration and making sure that we have the services and the things that people with young families and newcomers want to see,” says Parsons. “We have fewer families of childbearing age; the ones we do are having fewer children and, of course, we’ve had those years of outmigration and so we have an aging population.”
“Now we’re all starting to retire, and the older ones are starting to die. So, it’s kind of the perfect storm and Corner Brook is representative of most small cities reflecting that reality.” “Our numbers, and our projections, indicate that most of that movement in rural Newfoundland through the smaller to relatively larger urban centres has happened,” he adds.
“We are able to absorb immigration and people love it here. We just need to have more of the pull and less of the push that impacts population change, but it’s going to be 10, 15, 20 years, I think, before you see that transition to growing population."Originally from the community of Tack’s Beach, Brown moved away at age 19, first coming to Corner Brook in 1968 and later settling there permanently on Sept. 2, 1972. He worked as a teacher in the local high school until 1999.
Brown has seen this with his own family. His daughter went to law school and returned to Corner Brook to begin her career; however, his son had to move away to St. John’s for work.
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