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Osoyoos
Osoyoos, British Columbia: a border town on Osoyoos Lake in the South Okanagan, named from the Syilx word soo-yoos. Canada's warmest fresh-water lake, only desert, wine and fruit economy, incorporated 1946, town 1983.
Port Moody
Port Moody is a city of about 35,000 in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, on Burrard Inlet. Named for Colonel Richard Moody, it was the original CPR western terminus (1879) and incorporated in 1913.
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan: third-largest city in the province (population 34,291), on the North Saskatchewan River 141 km north of Saskatoon; Gateway to the North, founded 1866 by James Nisbet, city since 1904.
Prince George, British Columbia
Prince George, British Columbia: largest city in northern BC at the Fraser-Nechako confluence, incorporated 1915, population 76,708 (2021). Regional service hub with forestry-based economy, rising housing costs, and Lheidli T'enneh origins.
Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, is a port city on Kaien Island at the mouth of the Skeena River, incorporated in 1910 as the western terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
Qualicum Beach
Qualicum Beach is a town on the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC, north of Parksville in the Regional District of Nanaimo; incorporated 1942 as a village, 1983 as a town; pentl'ach-derived name; population about 9,387.
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer, Alberta: Alberta's third largest city, incorporated 1913, midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor on the QEII Highway; 115,409 residents in 2025, health care, manufacturing, and oil-and-gas service economy.
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina, Saskatchewan: provincial capital, 16th largest Canadian city, population 226,404 (2021). Founded 1882 as Pile of Bones, named by Princess Louise, provincial capital since 1906, home of the RCMP Training Academy.
Richmond, British Columbia
Richmond, British Columbia: island city in Metro Vancouver at the Fraser River mouth, on Sea Island, Lulu Island, and 15 smaller islands; 241,375 residents (2025 est.), about 1 m above sea level, protected by 49 km of dikes.
Salmon Arm
Salmon Arm is a city in British Columbia's Southern Interior at the southwest end of Shuswap Lake, incorporated 1905 as a district and 2005 as a city; 19,432 residents in 2021, a Shuswap service hub on the Trans-Canada Highway.
Saskatoon
Saskatoon, largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River; founded 1882 as a temperance colony, incorporated 1906, population about 308,626 in 2024 with the province's fastest growth.
Sidney, British Columbia
Sidney, British Columbia: a town of 12,318 on the Saanich Peninsula, 26 km north of Victoria, incorporated 1952 (town 1967), named for Lt. Frederick William Sidney; W̱SÁNEĆ site SET,TINES; ferry and airport hub with 468-unit housing target.
Sooke
Sooke is a district municipality on southwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia, about 40 km west of Victoria in the Capital Regional District. Named for the T'Sou-ke people, incorporated in 1999, population over 17,000 (2026 estimate), a former logging and fishing town now largely a Highway 14 commuter community.
Squamish, British Columbia
Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) is a district municipality at the head of Howe Sound, British Columbia, on the Sea-to-Sky corridor. Formerly Newport until 1914; fastest-growing Canadian census agglomeration 2016–2021; economy of tourism, outdoor recreation, and forestry.
Surrey, British Columbia
Surrey, British Columbia: a city in Metro Vancouver on the south side of the Fraser River, bordering the US. Second most populous BC municipality (568,322 in 2021), largest by land area, incorporated 1879, named after Surrey, England.
Terrace, British Columbia
Terrace, British Columbia: a city of about 12,300 on the Skeena River in northwest BC, founded by George Little around the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, briefly named Littleton, and the regional service hub of the Kitimat-Stikine regional district.
Thompson, Manitoba
Thompson, Manitoba: northern Canadian city founded 1957 around Inco's nickel mines, 765 km north of Winnipeg, known as the Hub of the North; incorporated as a town in 1967 and a city in 1970.
Tofino
Tofino (n̓ačiqs) is a district municipality of about 2,000 people on the Esowista Peninsula in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia; named for Spanish hydrographer Vicente Tofino de San Miguel, post office 1909, incorporated 1932, resort municipality since 2008.
Vancouver
Vancouver, Canada, is a coastal seaport city of 662,248 in British Columbia, the core of a 2.65 million person metropolitan region and host of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Vernon, British Columbia
Vernon, British Columbia: Okanagan Valley city between Okanagan and Kalamalka lakes, first incorporated in the valley (1892), named for Forbes George Vernon; 44,519 city residents (2021), economic anchor of the North Okanagan.
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia: provincial capital on southern Vancouver Island, founded as HBC's Fort Victoria in 1843 on Lekwungen territory, incorporated 1862. City population about 94,890; December 2024 benchmark detached home price $1,151,200.
White Rock, British Columbia
White Rock, British Columbia: small city (pop. 21,939 in 2021) on Semiahmoo Bay beside Surrey, incorporated 1957, named for a white beach boulder, known for its 470-metre 1914 wooden pier and 2.2-km promenade.
Winnipeg
Winnipeg, capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, at the Forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers; incorporated 1873, 749,607 residents in 2021, estimated 850,260 in 2026, largest Indigenous population in Canada.