Education and growing up
University and trade training involve different costs and routines.
COUNTRY LIFE / CAN
A life in Canada
From snowy school journeys to work and retirement.
01 / QUESTION
What might life in Canada be like?
Choose paths through study, work and family amid provincial and generational differences.
Canada / 1950–2025
Choices along the way
Shifts and long distances shape working life. · Heating costs and distant relatives enter household decisions.
02 / START
Set your birth
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
03 / GENERATIONS
A country across generations
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
1984Sources and scope
The 1984 Canada Health Act set conditions for federal funding of provincial health insurance.
Sources describe the social setting for the relevant era; choices and the simulation shape each person’s work, family and outcome.
04 / EVERYDAY LIFE
Choices along the way
Work and careers
Shifts and long distances shape working life.
Family and everyday life
Heating costs and distant relatives enter household decisions.
Life across generations
The 1966 pension launch and 1984 health law mark changing institutions.
05 / SOURCES
Sources and scope
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
Immigration and non-permanent residents
Original source ↗2021 census education and income cross-tabulation
Original source ↗2021 Census Education and Employment of Immigrants
Original source ↗How publicly funded health care coverage works
Original source ↗Seniors and Retirement: Canada Pension Plan
Original source ↗About the Canadian Multiculturalism Act
Original source ↗06 / LIFE ARCHIVE
Lives that began here
Only completed simulation records voluntarily made public by players appear here.
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07 / NEXT COUNTRY
Choose a birthplace. Discover a different life.
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