This is a
list of incorporated cities of Canada
in
alphabetical order categorized by province. More thorough
lists of communities are available for each province.
A map showing the provincial capitals and provinces
of Canada
Provincial and territorial capitals
Alberta
To
qualify as a city in Alberta
, a
sufficient population size (over 10,000 people) must be present and
a majority of the buildings must be on parcels of land smaller than
1850 square metres. A community is not always
incorporated as a city even if it
meets these requirements.
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.
- Sources: Population from Alberta Municipal
Affairs; Area from Statistics
Canada
British Columbia
In
British
Columbia
, a community
can be incorporated as a city if its population exceeds
5,000. 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.
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
As in
the other two Canadian territories, the only incorporated city in
the Northwest
Territories
is its capital, Yellowknife
.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia no longer has any incorporated cities, as they were
amalgamated into
Regional
Municipalities in the 1990s.
Nunavut
As in
the other two Canadian territories, the only incorporated city in
Nunavut
is its capital, Iqaluit
.
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. This status is not
automatically conferred on a community that reaches this
population target, but must be requested by the municipality and
granted by the provincial
Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Not all municipalities which reach this
population target have pursued city designation (as, for example,
Markham
, Ajax
and
Oakville
, which in 2006 had census populations of
ca. 262,000, 93,000, and 166,000 respectively).
Once
designated 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.
| City |
Census division |
Population
2006
|
Location |
Barrie |
Simcoe County |
128,430 |
|
Belleville |
Hastings County |
48,821 |
|
Brampton |
Peel
Region |
433,806 |
|
| Brant |
Brant |
34,415 |
|
Brantford |
Brant |
90,192 |
|
Brockville |
Leeds
and Grenville |
21,957 |
|
Burlington |
Halton Region |
164,415 |
|
Cambridge |
Waterloo
Region |
120,371 |
|
Chatham-Kent |
single-tier |
108,177 |
|
Clarence-Rockland |
Prescott and
Russell |
20,790 |
|
Cornwall |
Stormont,
Dundas and Glengarry |
45,965 |
|
| Dryden |
Kenora District |
8,195 |
|
Elliot Lake |
Algoma District |
11,549 |
|
Greater Sudbury |
single-tier |
157,857 |
|
Guelph |
Wellington
County |
114,943 |
|
| Haldimand County |
single-tier |
45,212 |
|
Hamilton |
single-tier |
504,559 |
|
Kawartha Lakes |
single-tier |
74,561 |
|
Kenora |
Kenora District |
15,177 |
|
Kingston |
Frontenac County |
117,207 |
|
Kitchener |
Waterloo Region |
204,668 |
|
London |
Middlesex County |
352,395 |
|
Mississauga |
Peel Region |
668,549 |
|
Niagara Falls |
Niagara Region |
82,184 |
|
Norfolk County |
single-tier |
60,847 |
|
North Bay |
Nipissing District |
53,966 |
|
Orillia |
Simcoe County |
30,259 |
|
Oshawa |
Durham Region |
141,590 |
|
Ottawa |
single-tier |
812,129 |
|
Owen Sound |
Grey County |
21,753 |
|
Pembroke |
Renfrew County |
13,930 |
|
Peterborough |
Peterborough County |
74,898 |
|
Pickering |
Durham Region |
87,838 |
|
Prince Edward County |
single-tier |
25,496 |
|
Port Colborne |
Niagara Region |
18,599 |
|
| Quinte West |
Hastings County |
42,697 |
|
Sarnia |
Lambton County |
71,419 |
|
Sault Ste. Marie |
Algoma District |
74,948 |
|
St. Catharines |
Niagara Region |
131,989 |
|
St. Thomas |
Elgin County |
36,110 |
|
Stratford |
Perth County |
30,461 |
|
Temiskaming Shores |
Timiskaming District |
10,442 |
|
Thorold |
Niagara Region |
18,224 |
|
Thunder Bay |
Thunder Bay |
109,140 |
|
Timmins |
Cochrane District |
42,997 |
|
Toronto |
single-tier |
2,503,281 |
|
Vaughan |
York Region |
238,866 |
|
Waterloo |
Waterloo Region |
97,475 |
|
Welland |
Niagara Region |
50,331 |
|
Windsor |
Essex County |
216,473 |
|
Woodstock |
Oxford County |
35,480 |
|
Prince Edward Island
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
municipalités 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.
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.
Yukon
As in
the other two Canadian territories, the only incorporated city in
the Yukon
is its
capital, Whitehorse
. Dawson
was also previously incorporated as a city, but
when the criteria were changed in the 1980s, its status was reduced
to that of a town due to population. Through special
provision, however, it is officially the town of the city of
Dawson.
See also
References
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: Halifax
: Charlottetown
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- former city, now part of the Cape Breton Regional
Municipality
- formerly the second largest city in Nova Scotia,
now a Metropolitan Area and part of the Halifax Regional
Municipality.
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