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Aug/Sep 2013
To promote further, Mayor Allan Hawkins
explains, “Over the past two years, Money-
sense Canada, has ranked the town number
1 and number 2 for Doctors per capita in
Canada.”
Even while there was planning to devel-
op new industries, and a focus on helping
expand operations for existing industries,
there was a surprisingly consistent growth
in Grand Falls-Windsor’s residential popu-
lation. “There was a domino effect in which
we experienced growth during the closure of
the mill. People who had moved from the
city in their 20’s and 30’s now were coming
back,” says Mary Wong, Community Plan-
ner for the Town of Grand Falls-Windsor.
Even with a rise in population and a plan
to develop new business, there were still oth-
er chapters of local sustainability that town
hall wanted in place.
“In the last couple years we have done sev-
eral studies; a transportation plan, a parks
plan, focus and research on where we should
be spending money, and the development
of a new civic building which will be LEED
silver certified,” says Mayor Hawkins. While
LEED certified buildings remain a policy
for Canada’s biggest cities, for the Town of
