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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.
Dawson Creek
Dawson Creek, a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, is Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway and the western terminus of the Northern Alberta Railway; incorporated as a village in 1936 and a city in 1958, population 12,323 (2021).
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.
Delta, British Columbia
Delta is a city in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, on the south side of the Fraser River's mouth, with three communities: Ladner, Tsawwassen, and North Delta.
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.
Edmonton
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River in Treaty Six territory. Grew from a 1778 fur trade post; 1,010,899 residents in 2021, about 1.24 million by 2025; opened Canada's pioneering 1978 LRT.
Edson, Alberta
Edson, Alberta: a town of about 8,400 in Yellowhead County on Highway 16, founded 1911-1912 as a Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad supply depot named for Edson J. Chamberlain, with a resource economy in oil and gas, forestry, and coal.
Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray, Alberta: urban hub of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo at the Athabasca-Clearwater confluence, founded 1870 as an HBC post, and the service center of the Athabasca oil sands since the 1967 GCOS operation.
Fort St. John, British Columbia
Fort St. John, British Columbia: the "Energetic City," a Peace River regional hub of 21,465 (2021), oldest non-First Nations settlement on the BC mainland, oil-and-gas and agricultural center on the Alaska Highway.
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.
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.
Grand Bend
Grand Bend, Ontario: Lake Huron beach resort in Lambton Shores, Lambton County, named for a 180-degree bend of the Ausable River; Blue Flag beach, 1892 river Cut harbour, summer population 30,000-40,000.
Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie, Alberta, is a city about 460 km northwest of Edmonton and the largest commercial center in the Peace Country, serving a trade area of nearly 300,000 people.
Greater Sudbury
Greater Sudbury (Grand Sudbury) is a 3,186 km² single-tier city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada's second-largest municipality by area, formed by 2001 amalgamation, a world-class nickel-copper mining centre with 166,004 residents (2021) and a bilingual population.
Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, 'The Royal City': planned town founded April 23, 1827 by John Galt of the Canada Company, named for the royal Guelph lineage; 2021 population 143,740, projected 208,000 by 2051.
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.
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario: Canadian port city at the west end of Lake Ontario, fifth-largest Ontario municipality (569,353 in 2021), historic steel center (Stelco, Dofasco), CMA of 785,184, planning 236,000 new residents and a 14-km LRT by mid-century.
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.
Hope, British Columbia
Hope, British Columbia: district municipality at the Fraser–Coquihalla river junction, 150 km east of Vancouver. Founded as HBC Fort Hope (1848–49), incorporated 1929, district 1992; 2021 population 6,686; forestry, tourism, service economy.
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.
Kamloops
Kamloops (Tk'emlúps) is a city in British Columbia's Southern Interior at the confluence of the North and South Thompson rivers. Incorporated 1893, population about 114,142 (2021 CMA), known as Canada's Tournament Capital.
Kelowna
Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, the province's sixth largest, incorporated in 1905, with about 145,000 residents, a wine- and tourism-based economy, and rapid growth under its 2040 Official Community Plan.
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston, Ontario: southeastern Canadian city at the mouth of the Cataraqui River on Lake Ontario, Canada's first capital 1841-1844, home of Queen's University and the UNESCO Rideau Canal fortifications, population 132,485 (2021).
Kitchener, Ontario
Kitchener, Ontario: largest city of Waterloo Region, founded as Berlin by German-speaking settlers, renamed Kitchener on September 1, 1916; 256,885 residents in 2021, ION light rail, and the Kitchener 2051 official plan.
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.
Lakeshore, Ontario
Lakeshore, Ontario: a town in Essex County on Lake St. Clair, formed in 1999 from Belle River and four townships; 40,410 people in 2021, Essex County's largest municipality.
Langley, British Columbia
Langley, British Columbia, comprises two adjacent Metro Vancouver municipalities: the City of Langley (incorporated 1955, population about 35,316) and the Township of Langley (incorporated 1873, third oldest in the province), home to Fort Langley.
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.