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École St. Joseph School is an elementary/middle school in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, operated by the Yellowknife Catholic School Board. The school was opened in September 1978 and is named in honour of the Sisters of St. Joseph. In addition to English, St. Joseph's offers the French immersion program for all students. The ...
The Northwest Territories is the most populous of Canada's three territories with 41,070 residents as of 2021 and is the second-largest territory in land area at 1,127,712 km 2 (435,412 sq mi). [1] The Northwest Territories' 24 municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to 96% of its population. [1] [2] [3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Yellowknife had a population of 20,340 living in 7,519 of its 7,975 total private dwellings, a change of 3.9% from its 2016 population of 19,569. With a land area of 103.37 km 2 (39.91 sq mi), it had a population density of 196.8/km 2 (509.6/sq mi) in 2021. [5]
The 2021 census reported that immigrants (individuals born outside Canada) comprise 4,145 persons or 10.3 percent of the total population of the Northwest Territories. [ 13 ] Immigrants in Northwest Territories by country of birth
This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) as defined by Statistics Canada.
Water bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. ... about 65% of the Territories population of 46,000 people ...
Population 2016 [2] % change from 2011 Location Aklavik: barren-ground grizzly place Hamlet [5] Yes Inuvik [5] Region 1: 590 −6.8% Behchokǫ̀: Rae Edzo, August 4, 2005 Mbehcho's place Self government, Community Government of Behchokö [6] Yes
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]