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List of cities in Canada
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.

City Area
(km²) 		Population
(2006) 		Density
(/km²) 		Location Remarks
Airdrie 21.48 1352 Part of Calgary Metropolitan Area
Brooks 17.46 664
Calgary 701.79 1413 Largest city in Alberta
Camrose 25.85 613
Cold Lake 59.30 196
Edmonton 683.88 1042 Capital of Alberta, second largest city.
Fort Saskatchewan 45.30 324 Part of Edmonton Capital Region
Grande Prairie 60.42 739
Leduc 36.97 423 Part of Edmonton Capital Region
Lethbridge 121.83 646
Lloydminster 24.19 640 City stretches into Saskatchewan, numbers for Alberta side only
Medicine Hat 111.99 500
Red Deer 60.90 1362
Spruce Grove 26.40 697 Part of Edmonton Capital Region
St. Albert 34.61 1627 Part of Edmonton Capital Region
Wetaskiwin 15.83 705
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.

City Population (2006) Area (km²) Location Remarks
Abbotsford 359.36
Armstrong 5.24
Burnaby 89.12 Part of Metro Vancouver
Campbell River 143.48
Castlegar 19.8
Chilliwack 260.19
Colwood 17.76 Part of Greater Victoria
Coquitlam 121.69 Part of Metro Vancouver
Courtenay 26.68
Cranbrook 25.14
Dawson Creek 22.32
Duncan 2.05
Enderby 4.23
Fernie 16.05
Fort St. John 22.74
Grand Forks 10.44
Greenwood 2.52
Kamloops 297.3
Kelowna 211.69
Kimberley 58.31
Kitimat 242.63
Langford 39.55 Part of Greater Victoria
Langley 10.22 Part of Metro Vancouver
Merritt 24.94
Nanaimo 89.3
Nelson 11.72
New Westminster 15.41 Part of Metro Vancouver
North Vancouver 11.85 Part of Metro Vancouver
Parksville 14.6
Penticton 42.02
Pitt Meadows 85.38
Port Alberni 19.92
Port Coquitlam 28.85 Part of Metro Vancouver
Port Moody 25.62 Part of Metro Vancouver
Powell River 29.77
Prince George 316
Prince Rupert 54.9
Quesnel 35.34
Revelstoke 31.9
Richmond 128.76 Part of Metro Vancouver
Rossland 57.97
Salmon Arm 155.36
Surrey 317.19 Part of Metro Vancouver
Terrace 41.52
Trail 34.78
Vancouver 114.71 Largest city, part of Metro Vancouver
Vernon 94.2
Victoria 19.68 Provincial capital, Part of Greater Victoria
White Rock 5.16 Part of Metro Vancouver
Williams Lake 33.11

Manitoba

City Population (2006) Area (km²) Location Remarks
Brandon 41,511 465.16
Dauphin 7,906 12.65
Flin Flon 5,594 11.55 (partially in Saskatchewan)
Portage la Prairie 12,728 24.67
Selkirk 9,515 24.87
Steinbach 11,066 25.57
Thompson 13,446 17.18
Winkler 9,106 17.02
Winnipeg 633,451 464.01 provincial capital/largest city

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). 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
Lambton Shores Lambton County 11,150
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 10,732
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
Whitby Durham Region 112,000
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.

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