Resource Frontier Aging: Trends and questions from a mature industrial town in northern BC
Age-friendly Communities, Community and Economic Development and Transformation
2005
By Greg Halseth, Neil Hanlon, Rachael Clasby, and Virginia Pow
This presentation examines the process of “resource frontier aging” in Mackenzie, BC by tracking population change and by posing policy questions about how to cope with these changes. Following a brief introduction to the context and nature of resource towns, the presentation then turns to the community of Mackenzie, BC to look at the way its local population age-structure has been changing.
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