“…While many of the extant studies of youth migration underscore the importance of reducing out‐migration in rural areas, researchers have yet to understand the nature and scope of Canada's north‐south migration patterns. Canada's northern regions differ in their available resources, demographics, size, and infrastructures, but they commonly share high levels of skill and youth out‐migration (Newbold and Brown 2015; Zarifa, Hango, and Pizarro Milian 2018). Moreover, securing stable employment, and employment commensurate with one's field or level of education, is becoming ever more difficult in northern economies, and may be contributing to higher out‐migration rates among youth aged 15 to 30 (Andres and Licker 2005; Dupuy, Mayer, and Morrisette 2009; Hango et al.…”