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| | globeandmail.com: 2001 Census |
 | | In 2001, about 15.3 million people -- or 51 per cent of Canadians -- lived in southern Ontario's Golden Horseshoe around Toronto, Montreal and environs, Vancouver and B.C.'s Lower Mainland and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor, according to census data released yesterday by Statistics Canada. |
 | | The four regions accounted for 49 per cent of Canada's population in the 1996 census, compared to 41 per cent in 1971. |
 | | In the extended Golden Horseshoe, which radiates out from Toronto to include Oshawa, Hamilton, St. Catharines-Niagara, Kitchener, Guelph and Barrie, the population in 2001 was 6.7 million, up from 6.1 million in 1996. |
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