Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
In dark purple you have areas where the average high temperature in January is above freezing (0°C; 32°F).
And in light purple you have even warmer places where the average low in January is above freezing (basically stays above freezing the whole month).
From the author:
Source: Ian Bremmer
The map above shows an interesting feature of Canada’s population density.
Not only does almost everyone live very close to the US border (see: 50% of Canadians Live South of The Red Line), but a small area stretching from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to Quebec city holds half the country’s population.
Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the areas connected to them next to the US border contain a further quarter of the population.
And the last quarter live in the remaining 90%+ of the land mass.
The numbers today would be slight different as Canada’s population has zoomed past 41 million people, so each group would have to be over 10 million people. But if anything it’s likely to have become even more concentrated in an even smaller area.
So maybe Toronto really is the centre of the Canadian universe (only joking).
The map is from 2016, but here’s the breakdown of the percentage of people who can speaker English, French or who can speak both (Bilingual Speakers) by province in 2021:
I love this map. It shows what decade the 50 tallest buildings in each city (including those under construction) were completed. All the way from before the 1950’s until the 2020s.
Here’s what LivinAWestLife had to say about the map:
It saw the birth of not one but two new political parties (The Bloc Québécois & Reform) which would become the 2nd and 3rd largest parties respectively in Canada’ House of Commons.
But most surprising of all, was the almost entire wipe-out of Canada’s Progressive Conservative (PC) party.
Here’s a detailed breakdown:
This is a view of Ottawa from 1876, only nine years after it became the capital of what was then known as the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.
In the main diagram the viewer is looking more or less to the south, while the insert in the bottom left is a view of the parliamentary precinct looking roughly north.
The map above shows the outcome of a federal plebiscite on the prohibition of alcohol that was held in Canada on September 29, 1898.
It was the first national referendum in the history of the country. It followed agitation over many decades by the temperance movement, which had succeeded introducing prohibition at the local (county) level in some areas, but wanted it extended nationally.