County Municipality: Inverness County and Charlottetown Guardian

county municipality: During the monthly meeting on Monday, Betty Ann Mac Quarrie said local politicians are having to look at ways of repopulating emptying rural areas, according to Metro News. She says the county municipality believes agricultural immigration needs to be part of the solution. The warden of Inverness County said she's concerned that Statistics Canada figures are showing a 4.3 per cent drop in residents of the western Cape Breton area since 2011, a loss of about 600 people. The southern portion of the municipality has seen an even sharper decline, losing over five per cent of its people. CIGO, Charlottetown Guardian In eastern Prince Edward Island, the Belfast Development Corp. recently endorsed a plan that aims to create an inventory of land that could be used to attract young families to the rural area. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.