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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