Canada's War Dead Were Small-Town Boys

Just more than half of the 158 soldiers and one diplomat that have been killed in Afghanistan came from cities of less than 50,000 people.

The minds behind iPolitics have put together an interactive map showing where all the Canadian soldiers who died in the Afghan War came from, and their analysis shows that small-town Canada suffered the heaviest toll in the war. Of the 158 soldiers and one diplomat to have been killed in Afghanistan, 51.6 per cent came from cities with fewer than 50,000 people, and a quarter of them came from towns of less than 10,000 people. This compares to just 3.8 per cent of victims that came from cities of more than a million people, and 18.4 per cent that came from cities of 500,000 or more. They came from every province except for Prince Edward Island, and one victim, Cpl. Jordan Anderson, came from Nunavut. Newfoundland and Labrador suffered the most losses per capita, with 11 soldiers killed, followed by New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.