Public Symposium: Island Mobility, Migration, and Population Issues (2016)
Island Mobility, Migration and Population Issues:
A Public Symposium
January 21, 2016 | 7 p.m.
MacKinnon Lecture Theatre, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, UPEI Campus
The current dynamics of population change in Prince Edward Island was the subject of a Public Symposium held at UPEI on Thursday, January 21, 2016.
Population change has always been at the core of the development of small islands – and it is no different on Prince Edward Island. Every day the public media deliver news about some aspect of population: youth outmigration, rural depopulation, an aging workforce, temporary foreign workers, refugees, wealthy immigrant investors….
This Public Symposium provided an opportunity for the public to hear about and contribute to the debate on several of the salient population issues that are crucial to the future of Prince Edward Island.
Featured speakers were Dr. Jim Randall, Katie Mazer (PhD Candidate), and Tony Wallbank.
This event was sponsored by UPEI’s Institute of Island Studies in conjunction with UPEI Research Services.
RESOURCES:
- Population Characteristics on Prince Edward Island as a Small Island: Setting the Stage – Dr. Jim Randall (Presentation slides)
- Making mobile workers in the oil sands era – Katie Mazer (Presentation slides)
IN THE NEWS:
- P.E.I. is experiencing a demographic and cultural shift, experts say (CBC News, January 22, 2016)
- History and Prince Edward Island’s Population Dilemma – Dr. Ed MacDonald
Dr. Ed MacDonald served as rapporteur for the Symposium. A version of this article appeared over two issues of The Guardian, Charlottetown’s daily newspaper, February 12 and 16, 2016.- A desirable place to stay: History and P.E.I’s population dilemma (The Guardian, February 16, 2016)
- A desirable place to stay: History and P.E.I’s population dilemma (The Guardian, February 16, 2016)