Job Seekers Heading Back to Alberta

June 22, 2011 - Janet McFarland

Job seekers are flooding back to Alberta after a two-year lull, lured by a resurgence in the oil patch and growing hiring demands.

Alberta saw a net inflow of 5,300 people from other provinces in the first quarter of 2011 -- its highest rate of interprovincial migration since the first quarter of 2006, according to Statistics Canada preliminary population data reported Wednesday.

The province saw steady inflows of workers from other parts of Canada between 1995 and 2009, but saw outflows in 2010 for the first time in 15 years.

That slowdown appears to have now reversed, with Alberta registering the fastest first-quarter population increase in Canada in the first quarter this year. The province’s population was estimated at 3,758,200 as of April 1, Statscan reported, up 15,500 people or 0.4 per cent since Jan. 1......

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