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Abbotsford, British Columbia
Abbotsford, British Columbia: a Fraser Valley city of 153,524 (2021 census), fifth largest in BC, formed by 1995 amalgamation of Matsqui and Abbotsford districts; known for Sumas Prairie agriculture and flood risk.
Ajax
Ajax, Ontario: a Durham Region town of 126,666 (2021) in the Greater Toronto Area, founded in 1941 around a Defence Industries Limited shell-filling plant and named for HMS Ajax of the Battle of the River Plate.
Alert, Nunavut
Alert, Nunavut is the site of Canadian Forces Station Alert, the world's northernmost permanently inhabited location, 817 km from the North Pole on Ellesmere Island, a signals intelligence and atmospheric research outpost resupplied by Operation Boxtop.
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Antigonish, Nova Scotia: small university town in northeastern mainland Nova Scotia, home of St. Francis Xavier University and the Antigonish Highland Games since 1863; 2021 census population 4,656.
Athabasca, Alberta
Athabasca is a town in northern Alberta, 145 km north of Edmonton on the Athabasca River; formerly Athabasca Landing, a fur-trade gateway to the North, it had 2,759 people in 2021.
Atlin
Atlin: town and lake in far northwestern British Columbia, Canada; largest natural lake in the province (775 km²). Site of the 1898 Atlin Gold Rush on Pine Creek, an offshoot of the Klondike Gold Rush, in Taku River Tlingit territory (Wenah).
Baie-Comeau
Baie-Comeau, Quebec town on the Côte-Nord founded by Chicago Tribune owner Colonel Robert R. McCormick; incorporated 20 May 1937 around a newsprint mill, merged with Hauterive in 1982, about 21,750 inhabitants.
Banff, Alberta
Banff, Alberta: resort town of about 8,000 inside Banff National Park, Canada's first national park (1885). Incorporated 1990; fixed 3.93 km2 townsite at 1,383 m; tourism-driven economy under federal development caps.
Barrie
Barrie is a city on Kempenfelt Bay, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, named for Sir Robert Barrie; 147,829 residents in 2021 (CMA 212,856), incorporated 1854, growing toward a 298,000-person 2051 forecast with a 2025 annexation of 1,673 hectares.
Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario: city of 55,071 (2021) at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte, renamed from Meyers' Creek in 1816, amalgamated with Thurlow Township in 1998, and an early adopter of on-demand transit.
Blind River, Ontario
Blind River, Ontario: a town in Algoma District on the North Channel of Lake Huron, halfway between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. Former logging town, incorporated 1906, home to Cameco's uranium refinery.
Bowmanville
Bowmanville, Ontario: community in Clarington, Durham Region, on Lake Ontario. Known for the Darlington nuclear site and BWRX-300 SMR project, the Bowmanville GO Extension, and the Bowmanville Hospital redevelopment.
Brampton
Brampton is a city in the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto; Canada's 7th largest city, it grew to 791,486 people in 2024.
Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon, Manitoba: western Manitoba's second-largest city on the Assiniboine River, incorporated 30 May 1882 as a CPR divisional point; 2021 population 51,313, trading population 180,000, home of Brandon University.
Brantford
Brantford, Ontario, "The Telephone City," a Grand River city of 104,690 (2021) where Alexander Graham Bell conceived the telephone in 1874 and made the first long-distance call in 1876.
Brossard
Brossard is a multicultural city on Montréal's South Shore in Montérégie, Québec, incorporated in 1958 with 3,400 residents, now about 91,525 (2021 census), served by three REM light-rail stations and home to Quartier DIX30.
Burlington, Ontario
Burlington, Ontario: a city in Halton Region on Lake Ontario's western shore, about 70 km west of Toronto; population 186,948 (2021 census), a city since 1974, founded from Joseph Brant's 1784 land grant.
Burnaby
Burnaby is a city in British Columbia at the centre of Metro Vancouver, BC's third-largest city with over 249,000 residents. Incorporated September 22, 1892 and named for Robert Burnaby, it hosts Simon Fraser University, BCIT, and Metrotown.
Calgary
Calgary is a city in southern Alberta, Canada, where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet. Founded as a North-West Mounted Police post in 1875, it is Canada's third largest municipality.
Cambridge, Ontario
Cambridge, Ontario: a city in Waterloo Region formed January 1, 1973 by amalgamating Galt, Preston, Hespeler, and Blair; population 138,479 (2021), second largest in the region, with advanced manufacturing near 20% of its workforce.
Canmore, Alberta
Canmore, Alberta is a Bow Valley town outside Banff National Park, founded in 1883 as a CPR railway siding and coal mining town until 1979, now a recreation destination of about 16,000 residents facing housing affordability pressures.
Chambly, Quebec
Chambly is a Quebec town in Montérégie on the Richelieu River, founded 1665 around Fort Chambly; population 31,966 (2026 decree), home to the Fort Chambly and Chambly Canal national historic sites.
Channel-Port aux Basques
Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland ferry gateway town on the Cabot Strait; created by the 1898 Newfoundland Railway, merged in 1945, Marine Atlantic's principal terminal to North Sydney.
Charlottetown
Charlottetown, capital and largest city of Prince Edward Island, Canada; founded 1764 by Samuel Holland and named for Queen Charlotte. Site of the September 1864 Charlottetown Conference and legally declared the birthplace of Canadian Confederation.
Chilliwack
Chilliwack is a city in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, 100 km east of Vancouver, named from Halq'eméylem Ts'elxwéyeqw; incorporated 1873 (Township) and 1908 (City), amalgamated 1980, population about 107,200 in 2023.
Churchill, Manitoba
Churchill, Manitoba, a town of about 900 on Hudson Bay, is the Polar Bear Capital of the World, with summer beluga viewing, aurora tourism, the 1929 Hudson Bay Railway, and Canada's only Arctic deep-water port.
Coquitlam
Coquitlam is a city in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, named for the Kwikwetlem First Nation, incorporated July 25, 1891, grown around Fraser Mills, with 148,625 people at the 2021 Census and SkyTrain service since 2017.
Cornwall, Ontario
Cornwall, Ontario: Eastern Ontario city on the St. Lawrence River bordering Akwesasne; founded 1784 by Loyalists, city since 1945; estimated 54,346 residents in 2025 with a diversified manufacturing, logistics, and retail economy.
Côte Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc (Côte-Saint-Luc) is a bilingual, mostly English-speaking residential city between Lachine and Hampstead on Montreal island: village 1903, town 1951, city 1958, merged 2002, reconstituted 2006; 37,833 residents on 7.04 km², twinned with Ashkelon since 1975.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Punamu'kwati'jk), the City of Lakes on Halifax Harbour's east shore: founded 1750 by Alderney settlers, town 1873, amalgamated into HRM 1996, about 72,000 people, 1752 saltwater ferry, Shubenacadie Canal heritage.