Davin: Industry Minister James Moore

Industry Minister James Moore: Industry Minister James Moore offered reassurances last week that Davin, Sask., will no longer appear in the census with a population of zero a mistake that was threatening to cut off the hamlet from provincial grants for municipalities, according to The Star. Statistics Canada is currently investigating how the error occurred and will adjust the population count for the Hamlet of Davin as required, as quickly as possible, Moore wrote in a letter to Ralph Goodale, the former finance minister and MP for the Wascana riding, which includes Davin and OTTAWA A tiny community in Saskatchewan will be placed back on the statistical map of Canada after it was accidentally turned into a ghost town in the 2011 census. Davin , about a half-hours drive east from Regina, actually has a population of 49 citizens, and the struggle to prove its existence to StatsCan has been going on for some months. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.