Talk:Massey Place, Saskatoon

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SriMesh | talk 01:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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• 1. Context - Neighbourhood geographically localised community located within Saskatoon. describing the category or field in which the idea belongs.
• 2. Characterization - appearance, age, gender, educational level, vocation or occupation, financial status, marital status, social status, cultural background, hobbies, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ambitions, motivations, personality, what the term refers to as used in the given context.
• 3. Explanation - deeper meaning and background.
• 4. Compare and contrast - how it relates to other topics, if appropriate. need to add about neighborhood pop in comparison to small town population comparison History Geography Physical geography (area, unique features) Major Parks Transportation Demographics population racial/ethnic makeup religious makeup Economy Government City Executive current, previous executives representative body Education Sites of interest Sports Notable natives type: subdivision which have a distict existence recognized by the US Census, the municipality, or just casually by the people who live there. legal recognition, such as a historic district, parking district, voting district, or official neighborhood council; or if there are independent groups which establish boundaries of some kind, such as a neighborhood association.
• 5. Criticism - include criticism if there has been significant, notable criticism. need to compare to other neighborhoods in Saskatoon when neighborhoods finish up...and look at the comglomerated statistics from each.

Massey Place, is a geographically localised subdivision of the Confederation Suburban Development Area in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which is nestled around Archibald McDonald Park. Mcdonald Park is centrally located along the northern perimeter of 33rd Street East. The school yards of both Vincent Massey School and Bishop Klein School have their western boundaries along Archibald McDonald Park which has as its resources ball diamonds, soccer pitches, winter ice rinks, and playground facilities. Massey Place neighborhood is close to amenities provided by both the commercial district of 33rd Street East and the Confederation Suburban Centre. In comparison Massey Place with a 2001 census population of 3,510 is larger than the provincial town of Tisdale, the "Land of Rape and Honey" which showed a peak population of 3,500. In 2006, the population of Tisdale went down to 2,981 from the 2001 population of 3,063. ^[1] The population of Massey Place also dropped between 2001 and 1996 from 3,575 to 3,505, however Massey Place neighborhood had peaked in 1986 at 3,815. ^[2] Massey Place is also about the same size demographically as Caswell Hill which has a population of 3,505 folk. The family income of both the neighborhoods of Caswell Hill and Massey Place is approximately the same $40,217 to $41,971 respectively, the average home resale price is about $20,000 higher in Massey Place.

Within the Confederation SDA, the neighborhood of Massey Place is bounded to the north by 33rd Street East. It is basically triangular in shape. Confederation Drive is to the western limits, the lower tip of the triangle is foreshortened by Milton Street. The eastern limits are Circle Drive.SriMesh|talk Julia 01:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)