November 2013
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in Atlantic Canada. Not so many years
ago, as a small bedroom community on
the outskirts of the Provincial Capital of
St. John’s, Paradise was made home by a
population comprised by a little more than
4,000 people, but today that number has
grown to more than 20,000. At the same
time, when considering its proximity to
communities such as Conception Bay
South, Mount Pearl as well as St. John’s,
Paradise is tied to a regional population
that equates closer to 200,000 people.
Paradise Chief Administrative Of-
ficer Rodney Cumby credits growth in
Paradise to industrial advances affiliated
with the oil and gas industry, as well as
constraints to growth in other communi-
ties which has basically forced expansion
into Paradise. The community has capi-
talized on increasing residential construc-
tion, and Cumby notes that much of that
housing is made home by young families.
While the average age here is only 35
years old, Cumby says Paradise also has
a growing senior population. And as to
be expected, as the residential sector has
