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1. Context of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality community. Cape Breton Regional Municipality is a community of communities which put the county, city and towns together since 1995 because the local government of NS wants to slenderise the number of incorporated towns and cities in the province. Therefore, the CBRM was created include the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton, the City of Sydney, the Towns of Glace Bay, Sydney Mines, New Waterford, North Sydney, Dominion and Louisbourg. The CBRM is the second largest municipality in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Located on the eastern side of Cape Breton Island, it covers a kernel area of 2,470 square kilometers and currently has a population of 97,398. From the statistic Canada, the population in CBRM shows decreasing since 2006. By the resident information, it is divided into three sections to explain demography education level and labour market characteristic. (1). In the population sector, it includes age, fin ish and housing. In the age part, there were 28,090 people, which was 27.6% of the follow number of CBRM, were 35-54 years in 2011. The people age between 20-64 years, which is labour force age, were 60,575 (60%). Over 65year, old people in CBRM were 19,655 (20.0%) and 21,385 people which were 20.1% of the total number of the population was a youth under 19 year old. The median age people were 47.5% in CBRM, male and female were 46.4% and 48.3, respectively. In the sex part, the male in the CBRM were 46,075 in 2011, and female were 51,325. The age between 15-64 which was adults has the ability to work were 64,575, the male and female were 30,945 and 33,630, respectively. In the housing part, the total number of families were 28,805, 64.1 pct have been ma... ...ta-Cascante, D., & Trejos, B. (2013). Community Resilience in Resource-Dependent Communities A Comparative Case Study. Environment And Planning A, 45(6), 1387-1402.Social economy communities, economies and solidarity in Atl antic Canada.(Brief article)(Book review). (2012). Reference & investigate Book News.Patterson, P., & Biagi, S. (2003). The loom of change weaving a new economy on Cape Breton / Paul Patterson and Susan Biagi. Sydney, NS University College of Cape Breton Press, c2003.Loxley, J., Silver, J., & Sexsmith, K. (2007). Doing community economic development / alter by John Loxley, Jim Silver and Kathleen Sexsmith. Halifax, N.S. Fernwood Pub., c2007.Haughton G. Community Economic Development / Edited By Graham Haughton e-book. London Stationery Office, 1999. 1999. Available from CBU Library Catalogue, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 17, 2013.