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 by province; see the bottom of this page for links.

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1 Significant Cities
2 Alberta
3 British Columbia
4 Manitoba
5 New Brunswick
6 Newfoundland and Labrador
7 Northwest Territories
8 Nova Scotia
9 Nunavut
10 Ontario
11 Prince Edward Island
12 Quebec
13 Saskatchewan
14 Yukon
15 External links

[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).

At the site of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland the remains of a Viking village were discovered in 1960 by the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his archaeologist wife, Anne Stine Ingstad. This is the only authenticated Viking settlement in continental North America. The settlement, dates back more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus, proving that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America.

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, Brian 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.

[edit] Alberta

To qualify as a city, 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. Despite this, a community may not always be designated a 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.

[edit] British Columbia

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[edit] Manitoba

Brandon
Dauphin
Flin Flon (partly in Saskatchewan)
Portage la Prairie
Selkirk
Steinbach
Thompson
Winkler
Winnipeg - provincial capital/largest city

[edit] New Brunswick

[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, they were amalgamated into Regional Municipalities.

Halifax - provincial capital, 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, Recently amalgamated into the Halifax Regional Municipality.

[edit] 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, however — most notably, Markham is still designated as a town despite being larger than most of Ontario's cities. 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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Orillia
Oshawa
Ottawa - federal capital
Owen Sound
Pembroke
Peterborough
Pickering
Prince Edward County
Port Colborne
Quinte West
Sarnia
Sault Ste. Marie
St. Catharines
St. Thomas
Stratford
Temiskaming Shores
Thorold
Thunder Bay
Timmins
Toronto - provincial capital/largest city
Vaughan
Waterloo
Welland
Windsor
Woodstock

[edit] Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown - provincial capital
Summerside

[edit] Quebec

In Quebec, 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. Quebec does, however, distinguish between villes and other types of incorporated municipalities, such as cantons, municipalités, paroisses, villages and villages autochthones. Quebec did at one time distinguish between villes and cités, but no longer does.

All municipalities in Quebec 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.