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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.
Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, also called Coalbanks or Sikoohkotoki, is a southern Alberta city on the Oldman River; founded on 1870s coal mining, named for William Lethbridge, a city since 1906, population about 106,550 in 2023.
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.
London, Ontario
London, Ontario: Canadian city at the Thames River forks, population over 530,000, 11th largest in Canada. Founded 1826, incorporated 1855; economy spans health care, manufacturing, education, and a $616 million tourism sector.
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.
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.
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.
Markham, Ontario
Markham, Ontario: a city in York Region northeast of Toronto, founded 1794 by Berczy settlers, population 338,503 (2021), Canada's densest technology hub with 1,500+ tech companies.
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat, Alberta: city of over 65,000 in southeast Alberta on the South Saskatchewan River, nicknamed after the Blackfoot 'Saamis'; known for its 1883 gas discovery, Kipling's 'all hell for a basement', and municipally owned gas and electric utilities.
Merritt, British Columbia
Merritt, British Columbia: a city at the junction of the Nicola and Coldwater Rivers, southwest of Kamloops; incorporated 1911, renamed 1906 for William Hamilton Merritt, evacuated in the November 2021 flood.
Milton, Ontario
Milton, Ontario: town in Halton Region, Canada; founded 1821-22 by Jasper Martin, incorporated 1857; 2021 population 132,979, projected 400,400 by 2051; new Official Plan adopted 2026.
Mississauga
Mississauga is a city in the Region of Peel, Ontario, west of Toronto; incorporated 1974, Canada's sixth largest city, home to Pearson airport, 501,500 jobs, and the Official Plan 2051 growth framework.
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.
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.
Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw is Saskatchewan's fourth largest city, at the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 2 junction about 68 km from Regina. Known for 15 Wing air training, the Tunnels of Moose Jaw, and the 'Canada's Most Notorious City' brand.
Nakusp
Nakusp: village municipality on Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, incorporated 1964, population 1,589 (2021), known for forestry, community forest NACFOR, and the Nakusp Hot Springs.
Nanaimo
Nanaimo (Snuneymuxw territory) is a city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, incorporated 1874, founded on HBC coal mining in 1852 as Colvilletown; population 99,863, Harbour City, Nanaimo bar, fifth-largest BC urban centre.
Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson, BC is a city of about 10,600 on Kootenay Lake's West Arm in the Selkirk Mountains, incorporated 1897, named for Lt.-Gov. Hugh Nelson, home to BC's first hydroelectric plant and 350 heritage buildings.
New Westminster
New Westminster, British Columbia, the "Royal City": founded 1859 by Colonel Moody as capital of the mainland colony, named by Queen Victoria, capital until 1868; population 78,916 (2021).
Newmarket, Ontario
Newmarket, Ontario: a York Region town founded in 1801 by Quaker Timothy Rogers, incorporated 1858, town 1880; 2021 population 87,942, 38.5 km2, home of Southlake Health and Mulock Park. Distinct from Newmarket, England.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ontario is a city of 94,415 beside the Niagara Falls waterfalls, known as the Honeymoon Capital of the World and drawing about 14 million visitors a year.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario town at the mouth of the Niagara River, formerly Newark and Niagara; first capital of Upper Canada 1792-1796, national historic site with 1815-1859 buildings, Shaw Festival, and wine country.
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay, Ontario: a city of about 62,000 on Lake Nipissing, 345 km north of Toronto. Founded as a CPR railway camp in 1882, incorporated 1925; NORAD base, Nipissing University, Gateway to the North.
North Vancouver (city)
City of North Vancouver: British Columbia municipality incorporated May 13, 1907, on the North Shore across from Vancouver, distinct from the District of North Vancouver. Compact Lonsdale-core city of 61,550 (2021) facing severe housing affordability limits and a 3,320-unit provincial housing target.
North York
North York, a district of Toronto and former municipality (Township 1922, borough 1967, city 1979, amalgamated 1998), known for North York Centre on Yonge Street, Mel Lastman, and Don Mills.
Oakville, Ontario
Oakville, Ontario: lakeside town in Halton Region, Greater Toronto Area; 213,759 residents (2021 Census), founded 1827 by William Chisholm, incorporated 1857, amalgamated with Trafalgar Township 1962.
Okotoks
Okotoks is a town in southern Alberta, 18 km south of Calgary, named from the Blackfoot word for rock. Population 30,405 (2021 census); home of the Big Rock glacial erratic; growth once capped by Sheep River water supply.
Oshawa
Oshawa, Ontario, is a city on Lake Ontario in Durham Region about 60 kilometers east of Toronto, historically known as Canada's Motor City for its General Motors automobile industry.
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.