Canadians chasing an East Coast lifestyle fuel population jump in New Brunswick
CBC
New Brunswick's population grew faster than the national average last year, despite ongoing declines in its birth rate, as thousands of Canadians continue to leave larger provinces and migrate east.
"These are levels that have not been seen in a long time," said Sébastien Lavoie, an analyst with Statistics Canada's Centre for Demography about the number of those arriving in the region from other provinces.
According to new estimates released Wednesday, New Brunswick added 6,021 people over 12 months ending July 1. It's the sixth year in a row of solid population growth for a province that had seen its numbers stagnate less than a decade ago.
Between 2012 and 2015 New Brunswick grew by just 464 people but since 2015 has added 65 times that number — 30,383.
Last year most of the growth was the result of people like Salma Burney moving to New Brunswick from another province.
Burney and her husband built a life together in southern Ontario but last year picked up, sold their house and moved to rural New Brunswick.
Tired of what Burney said was a "work, eat, sleep, rinse and repeat" life in Hamilton, the couple found an old farmhouse and large piece of land listed for sale in Anagance and bought it sight unseen.
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