Table 1.5
Farm area in Canada by ecozone, 1971 and 2006
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| Ecozone area | Farm area | Farm area 1971 to 2006 | Proportion of ecozone in farm area | Population | Farm area per thousand people | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 2006 | 1971 | 2006 | 1971 | 2006 | 1971 | 2006 | |||
| square kilometres | percent change | percent | number | square kilometres per thousand people | ||||||
| Boreal Shield | 1,921,000 | 18,948 | 12,595 | -33.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 2,525,809 | 2,886,412 | 7.5 | 4.4 |
| Atlantic Maritime | 203,000 | 28,061 | 18,774 | -33.1 | 13.8 | 9.2 | 2,274,692 | 2,554,089 | 12.3 | 7.4 |
| Mixed Wood Plains | 168,000 | 75,048 | 63,922 | -14.8 | 44.7 | 38.0 | 11,041,670 | 16,611,643 | 6.8 | 3.8 |
| Boreal Plains | 744,000 | 123,113 | 128,997 | 4.8 | 16.5 | 17.3 | 561,553 | 811,956 | 219.2 | 158.9 |
| Prairies | 466,000 | 413,413 | 403,325 | -2.4 | 88.7 | 86.6 | 2,916,253 | 4,514,106 | 141.8 | 89.3 |
| Pacific Maritime | 205,000 | 1,481 | 1,504 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1,653,827 | 3,215,775 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Montane Cordillera | 487,000 | 12,057 | 15,182 | 25.9 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 508,705 | 873,559 | 23.7 | 17.4 |
Source(s):
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Statistics Canada, customized
tabulations, Census of Agriculture, Census Geographic Component Base 2006 and
Census of Agriculture Regular Base 1971. Statistics Canada, CANSIM tables 153-0057 and 153-0058 (accessed April 27, 2009). Statistics Canada, 2009,
Human Activity and the Environment, Catalogue no. 16-201-X
, Table 2.1.
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