List of cities in Canada
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This is a list of incorporated cities of Canada in alphabetical order by province. More thorough lists of communities are available for each province.
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[edit] Significant Cities
People, businesses and organizations originating in a number of Canadian cities have impacted the world.
Canada's provincial and territory capital cities include: Charlottetown (capital city of Prince Edward Island), Edmonton (capital city of Alberta), Fredericton (capital city of New Brunswick), Halifax, Nova Scotia (capital city of Nova Scotia), Iqaluit (capital city of Nunavut), Quebec City (capital city of Quebec), Regina, Saskatchewan (capital city of Saskatchewan), St. John's (capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador), Toronto (capital city of Ontario), Victoria (capital city of British Columbia), Whitehorse (capital city of Yukon), Winnipeg (capital city of Manitoba) and Yellowknife (capital city of Northwest Territories).
- Ottawa is the capital of Canada and home for the Governor-General of Canada, the Prime Minister of Canada and Canadian Museum of Civilization. Many celebrities hail from Ottawa including Dan Aykroyd, Bryan Adams, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Yousuf Karsh, Alanis Morissette, Matthew Perry and Alex Trebek. Ottawa was the site of the event that many people consider to be the official start of the Cold War.
- Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal on 12 December 1901 at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland using a 400-foot (122-metre) kite-supported antenna for reception.
- Vancouver is the third largest film production centre for US-based productions in North America after Hollywood and New York. The city will be the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the 2007 Memorial Cup and the 2009 World Police and Fire Games.
- Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth most populous city in North America. Toronto is listed as a beta world city. It is also the center for various businesses and commerce in Canada with Bay Street being the Canadian equivalent to Wall Street and having one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, the TSX.
- Montreal is the largest French speaking city in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest city by population in Canada. Its historical downtown area called Old Montreal is dated back to colonial times of French and British rule. It is also home to the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world which is held annually.
- Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta. It is located in the south of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, approximately 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is the third largest civic municipality, by population, in Canada.
- Edmonton is Alberta's provincial capital. It is Canada's northernmost city with a metro population of over one-million people.
[edit] Alberta
To qualify as a city in Alberta, a sufficient population size of over 10,000 people must be present and a majority of the buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1850 square metres.[1] Despite this, a community is not always incorporated as city even with such a population. For example, Fort McMurray merged with Improvement District No. 18 in 1995 to form the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. As a result, it lost its city status and is officially known as a hamlet. Some communities attained city status without reaching the 10,000-population threshold such as Drumheller (which reverted to town status in 1997). Sherwood Park, despite having ample qualifications to be a city, has chosen to remain, legally, a hamlet.
- See also: List of communities in Alberta
- Airdrie
- Brooks
- Calgary - largest city
- Camrose
- Cold Lake
- Edmonton - provincial capital
- Fort Saskatchewan
- Grande Prairie
- Leduc
- Lethbridge
- Lloydminster (partly in Saskatchewan)
- Medicine Hat
- Red Deer
- Spruce Grove
- St. Albert
- Wetaskiwin
[edit] British Columbia
In British Columbia, a community can be incorporated as a city if its population exceeds 5,000.[2] Once so incorporated, a city does not lose this status even if its population later declines; the once-thriving city of Greenwood, for example, now has a population of just 695 people.
- See also: List of communities in British Columbia
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[edit] Manitoba
- See also: List of communities in Manitoba
- Brandon
- Dauphin
- Flin Flon (partly in Saskatchewan)
- Portage la Prairie
- Selkirk
- Steinbach
- Thompson
- Winkler
- Winnipeg - provincial capital/largest city
[edit] New Brunswick
- See also: List of communities in New Brunswick
- Bathurst
- Campbellton
- Dieppe
- Edmundston
- Fredericton - provincial capital
- Miramichi
- Moncton-
- Saint John - largest city
[edit] Newfoundland and Labrador
- Corner Brook
- Mount Pearl
- St. John's - provincial capital/largest city
[edit] Northwest Territories
- Yellowknife - territorial capital
[edit] Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia no longer has any incorporated cities, as they were amalgamated into Regional Municipalities in the 1990s.
- See also: List of communities in Nova Scotia
- Halifax - provincial capital and Metropolitan Area, now part of the Halifax Regional Municipality
- Sydney, Nova Scotia - former city, now part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - second largest city in Nova Scotia , now a Metropolitan Area and part of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
[edit] Nunavut
- See also: List of communities in Nunavut
- Iqaluit (City) - territorial capital
[edit] Ontario
In Ontario, city status is conferred by the provincial government, generally upon the request of the incorporated municipality. A municipality may apply for city status anytime after its population surpasses 10,000. Not all municipalities which reach this population target have pursued city designation (as for example, Markham and Oakville). Once designated as a city, however, a municipality does not lose this status even if its population later falls back below 10,000 (as, for example, Dryden.) City status may also be conferred on some rural counties which have been amalgamated such that all municipal governance takes place at the county level with no further municipal subdivisions. Thus, city status in Ontario does not always connote a primarily urbanized community.
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is responsible for laws surrounding the incorporation and administration of municipal governments in Ontario.
- See also: List of communities in Ontario
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[edit] Prince Edward Island
- Charlottetown - provincial capital/largest city
- Summerside
[edit] Québec
In Québec, provincial law does not currently distinguish between towns and cities — one designation, ville, covers both types of communities regardless of size. A ville might be informally referred to as a town or a city in English, but this is an arbitrary and subjective distinction. Québec does, however, distinguish between villes and other types of incorporated municipalities, such as cantons, municipalités, paroisses, villages and villages autochthones. Québec did at one time distinguish between villes and cités, but no longer does.
All municipalities in Québec which have ville status are listed here, regardless of whether they are considered towns or cities in unofficial usage.
- See also: List of communities in Quebec
[edit] Saskatchewan
In Saskatchewan, towns must maintain a population above 5,000 and meet other criteria in order to be granted city status, although in the early 20th century several centres such as Saskatoon and Regina were granted city status despite having a smaller population. The city of Melville retains city status as of 2006 despite dropping below 5,000 population in the 1990s. Kindersley, with a population that fluctuates around the 5,000 mark, has applied for city status in recent years.
- See also: List of communities in Saskatchewan
- Estevan
- Flin Flon (mostly in Manitoba)
- Humboldt
- Lloydminster (mostly in Alberta)
- Melfort
- Melville
- Moose Jaw
- North Battleford
- Prince Albert
- Regina - provincial capital
- Saskatoon - largest city
- Swift Current
- Weyburn
- Yorkton
[edit] Yukon
- See also: List of communities in Yukon
- Whitehorse - territorial capital
[edit] See also
- List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population
- List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada
- 100 largest cities and towns in Canada by area
- List of towns in Canada
[edit] References
- ^ Alberta Municipal Affairs (2006-05-16). Types of Municipalities in Alberta. Retrieved on December 18, 2006.
- ^ Government of British Columba - Local Government Act
