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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.
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.
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.
Dawson City
Dawson City, Yukon, town at the Yukon-Klondike river confluence, heart of the 1896-1899 Klondike Gold Rush, Yukon capital 1898-1953, now a National Historic Site and UNESCO Tr'ondëk-Klondike component.
Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador
Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador: a Humber Valley town founded by 1864 Cape Breton settlers, incorporated 1950, home to Deer Lake Regional Airport, the fourth busiest in Atlantic Canada, at the Trans-Canada Highway and Viking Trail junction.
Fredericton
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada, on the Wolastoq (Saint John River); founded as Frederick's Town in 1785 by Loyalists, incorporated 1848, population about 79,000 in 2025.
Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador
Gander, Newfoundland, and Labrador: town built around Gander International Airport, a 1938 transatlantic refueling hub and WWII Ferry Command base, famous for sheltering 6,600 stranded 9/11 passengers, inspiring Come From Away.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia: capital and largest municipality of Nova Scotia, founded 1749 by Edward Cornwallis, amalgamated into HRM in 1996; over 500,000 people, 59.5% of provincial GDP, CFB Halifax naval base, and active provincial housing-planning intervention.
Hay River, Northwest Territories
Hay River (Xatlo Dehe) is the NWT's second-largest town, on Great Slave Lake's south shore; population 3,317 (2025), 42% Indigenous, transportation hub of the Mackenzie barge system.
Inuvik
Inuvik, Northwest Territories: planned town founded 1958 to replace Aklavik, largest Canadian community north of the Arctic Circle, Dempster Highway terminus since 1979, population 3,337 (2025).
Iqaluit
Iqaluit, formerly Frobisher Bay, is the capital and largest city of Nunavut, Canada, on Baffin Island. Population about 7,400 to 9,000; government-dominated economy; housing growth limited by water capacity; no road links outside.
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (Old Town Lunenburg), a town founded in 1753 as a planned British colonial grid settlement by German, Swiss, and French settlers; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995, criteria (iv) and (v), 33.85 ha property, National Historic Site 1991.
Moncton
Moncton is a city in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Petitcodiac River. It is New Brunswick's largest city and Canada's first officially bilingual city.
Saint John, New Brunswick
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada's first incorporated city (1785), a Bay of Fundy port city of about 70,000-79,000 people, founded by Loyalists in 1783 and rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1877.
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the most easterly city in North America, with a 2021 population of about 110,000.
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador is a town of about 6,600 people on Bay St. George on the west coast of Newfoundland, serving a surrounding area of roughly 25,000.
Sussex, New Brunswick
Sussex, New Brunswick: a town in Kings County in the Kennebecasis River valley, 70 km northeast of Saint John. Known as the Dairy Capital of Atlantic Canada, home of the 8th Hussars, murals, and the Kings County Agricultural Fair; amalgamated with Sussex Corner in 2023.
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney, Nova Scotia: town founded 1785, capital of the colony of Cape Breton until 1820, named for Lord Sydney; steel and coal port on Sydney Harbour, now Cape Breton's largest community.
Whitehorse
Whitehorse is the capital and largest city of Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River; also called the Wilderness City. Population about 33,000 city, 38,490 area (2025); capital since 1953; economy led by public administration.
Wolfville
Wolfville is a town in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, home to Acadia University and the centre of the province's wine country, with 11 wineries within 20 km and the Grand-Pré UNESCO site nearby.
Yellowknife
Yellowknife (Sǫ̀mbak'è), capital and only city of the Northwest Territories on Great Slave Lake's north shore; founded 1934 in a gold rush, territorial capital since 1967, population about 20,000 to 24,000, high-cost high-income northern economy.