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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.
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.
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.
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.
Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO) is a city of 48,200 in western Montreal Island, Quebec, founded 1924 from Sainte-Geneviève, named for soldier Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, a city since 1960, demerged from Montreal in 2006.
Gatineau
Gatineau, Quebec's fourth-largest city (306,105 in 2025), on the Ottawa River across from Ottawa; formed in 2002 by merging Hull, Aylmer, Gatineau, Buckingham, and Masson-Angers; Outaouais regional metropolis.
La Tuque, Quebec
La Tuque, Quebec: city on the Saint-Maurice River in Mauricie, founded 1911; largest Quebec city by area (agglomeration 29,310 km², like Belgium) with about 11,000–15,000 residents, forest economy, Gouin reservoir, mayor Pierre Pacarar.
Laval, Quebec
Laval, Quebec: city occupying all of Île Jésus (246 km²) north of Montreal, also administrative region 13; about 459,000 residents; created 6 August 1965 by merging 14 municipalities; named for Bishop François de Laval.
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) is a Quebec archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with 12,941 inhabitants (2022), an economy based on fishing, salt mining, and tourism, and severe coastal erosion exposure.
Lévis
Lévis is a city in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite Quebec City, the province's seventh largest.
Longueuil
Longueuil, Quebec: South Shore city across from Montreal, central city of the Agglomération de Longueuil (458,178 in 2025). Founded as the 1657 seigneurie of Charles Le Moyne; three boroughs, Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park; 254,483 residents in 2021.
Magog, Quebec
Magog, Quebec: city in Estrie on the Magog River at the foot of Lake Memphremagog, 32 km north of the Vermont border; founded by Ralph Merry III, industrialized by the 1884 Magog Textile mill, population about 30,807.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Mont-Saint-Hilaire is a city in Montérégie, Quebec, on the Richelieu River at the foot of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978), home to McGill's Gault Nature Reserve and a center of apple growing.
Montreal
Montreal (Montréal) is a major Quebec metropolis founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie. It is the largest francophone city in the Americas and is not the world's second-largest French-speaking city.
Quebec City
Quebec City (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 on the St. Lawrence River.
Saguenay
Saguenay, Quebec: city created 18 February 2002 by merging Chicoutimi, Jonquière, La Baie, Laterrière, Lac-Kénogami, Shipshaw and part of Canton Tremblay; three boroughs, 151,972 residents (2025), aluminum and hydroelectric economy.
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec city (formerly Saint-Jean-Iberville), formed 24 January 2001 by merging five municipalities; 11th largest Quebec city, about 100,400 Johannais on the Richelieu River in Montérégie, site of Fort Saint-Jean (1666-1667).
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is a city in the Montérégie region of southern Québec, Canada, on Baie Saint-François at the outlet of Lac Saint-François, with an estimated 46,208 residents in 2024.
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is a city in southeastern Quebec, Canada, the seat of the Estrie region at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers, about 150 km east of Montreal.
Sorel-Tracy
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec city at the Saint Lawrence–Richelieu confluence, formed by the 2000 merger of Sorel and Tracy; one of Canada's oldest towns, with shipbuilding and metallurgy heritage, 35,165 people (2021), and the 103-island Lake Saint-Pierre archipelago.
Terrebonne, Quebec
Terrebonne, Quebec: city in Lanaudière on the Rivière des Mille Îles, formed 27 June 2001 by merging Terrebonne, Lachenaie, and La Plaine; 126,199 residents (2026), tenth-largest Quebec city, mayor Mathieu Traversy since 2025.
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières, Quebec city founded 1634 by Laviolette under Champlain, second oldest French-speaking city in North America; population 149,934 (2025), former world newsprint capital, six-municipality merger in 2002.
Val-d'Or
Val-d'Or is a city in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, founded on 1930s gold mining (Lamaque, Sigma mines), village 1935, city 1937, merged with Dubuisson, Sullivan, Val-Senneville, and Vassan in 2002; population about 33,000.
Ville-Marie, Quebec
Ville-Marie, Quebec: the 1642 missionary settlement founded by Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance that became Montreal; today also Montreal's central borough (84,013 residents) and a town on Lake Témiscamingue named by the Oblates in 1863.