Quick! what is the population of the Canadian shield?

Answer 1

The Canadian shield is an enormous landform that covers much of the thinly populated part of North America. According to Wikipedia, "it covers much of Greenland; Labrador; most of Quebec north of the St. Lawrence River; much of Ontario including northern sections of the southern peninsula between the Great Lakes; the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York; most northern part of lower and all of upper Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and north-east Minnesota; the central/northern portions of Manitoba away from Hudson Bay and the Great Plains; northern Saskatchewan; a small portion of north-eastern Alberta; and the mainland northern Canadian territories to the east of a line extended north from the Saskatchewan/Alberta border (Northwest Territories and Nunavut). In total it covers approximately 8 million square kilometers." You could certainly look up the populations of all those places separately and add them up.

My personal guess would be about 5 million people, with most of them living in Quebec or northern Ontario. Toronto and the area south of there are generally not considered part of the shield, so most of Ontario's population would not count in the total.

Answer 2

read it was 700,000