Life support

This is an article about NFLD but the issue is certainly not isolated to there.

   

WW2 saved Newfoundland/Labrador's life.

The depression had returned it to the statis of a colony from that of a self governing dominion.
It's strategic position, resulted in a massive influx of jobs and revenue due to the rapidly built and expanding air and naval bases.
The end of the war, ended this happy situation and reopened the state-statis question.

For simple fiscal reasons the new Canadian Smallwood provincial government had little recourse other than to institute a massive migration from the many many small outports to larger urban centres.

Impossible to administer and provide civil services, this had to be done and the current situation is merely a continuation of that process----regardless of political stripe it is unavoidable.

   

I can see some rich people wanting to buy land cheep. This way then can have a little vacation site for their families to get away from the city now and then. Is this something that is happening?