Canadian Cities A to Z

Every major Canadian city covered on All Canada, listed alphabetically. Click a city name to jump to the relevant province guide, where you'll find dedicated sections on neighbourhoods, post-secondary education, housing costs, cultural scene, and sports and recreation.

A Photographic Tour of Canadian Cities

From the Pacific to the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean, here are eleven Canadian cities — each with its own character, its own weather, and its own way of telling visitors what to expect. Click through to a province guide for the long-form story.

Toronto skyline at dusk seen from the Toronto Islands, with the CN Tower over Lake Ontario — Toronto, Ontario

Montreal at twilight from Mount Royal, the downtown core lit beneath a winter sky — Montreal, Quebec

Vancouver harbour and downtown with the snow-capped North Shore mountains behind — Vancouver, British Columbia

The Calgary Tower and downtown skyline with the Rockies on the western horizon at sunset — Calgary, Alberta

Parliament Hill in Ottawa with the Peace Tower and Centre Block in golden hour — Ottawa, Ontario

The Exchange District in Winnipeg, brick warehouses and the prairie horizon — Winnipeg, Manitoba

Halifax waterfront boardwalk along the harbour, looking across to Dartmouth — Halifax, Nova Scotia

Colourful Jellybean Row houses on a hillside in downtown St. John's, Newfoundland — St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador

Victoria, BC's Inner Harbour at dusk with the Empress Hotel and Parliament Buildings — Victoria, British Columbia

Charlottetown waterfront and the red-sand fields of Prince Edward Island — Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Edmonton's North Saskatchewan River valley winding past the downtown core in late summer — Edmonton, Alberta

By Population (Top 25 Metro Areas)

Rank	City	Province	Metro Population	Province Guide
1	Toronto	Ontario	~6.7 million	Ontario
2	Montreal	Quebec	~4.4 million	Quebec
3	Vancouver	British Columbia	~2.8 million	BC
4	Calgary	Alberta	~1.67 million	Alberta
5	Edmonton	Alberta	~1.5 million	Alberta
6	Ottawa-Gatineau	Ontario / Quebec	~1.5 million	Ontario
7	Winnipeg	Manitoba	~855,000	Manitoba
8	Quebec City	Quebec	~830,000	Quebec
9	Hamilton	Ontario	~785,000	Ontario
10	Kitchener-Waterloo	Ontario	~575,000	Ontario
11	London	Ontario	~550,000	Ontario
12	Halifax	Nova Scotia	~490,000	NS
13	St. Catharines-Niagara	Ontario	~440,000	Ontario
14	Windsor	Ontario	~425,000	Ontario
15	Oshawa	Ontario	~420,000	Ontario
16	Victoria	British Columbia	~397,000	BC
17	Saskatoon	Saskatchewan	~340,000	SK
18	Regina	Saskatchewan	~255,000	SK
19	St. John's	Newfoundland & Labrador	~213,000	NL
20	Kelowna	British Columbia	~225,000	BC
21	Barrie	Ontario	~215,000	Ontario
22	Kingston	Ontario	~170,000	Ontario
23	Sherbrooke	Quebec	~170,000	Quebec
24	Moncton	New Brunswick	~160,000	NB
25	Saint John	New Brunswick	~130,000	NB

Alphabetical Index

A – B

Barrie — Ontario, cottage-country gateway north of Toronto
Banff — Alberta, mountain town inside Banff National Park
Brandon — Manitoba, agricultural service centre

C

Calgary — Alberta, the corporate-and-cowboy city at the foot of the Rockies
Charlottetown — PEI, the smallest provincial capital and birthplace of Confederation
Corner Brook — Newfoundland's west-coast service hub

D – E

Dawson City — Yukon, gold-rush living history
Edmonton — Alberta capital, river-valley city and arts town

F – G

Fredericton — New Brunswick capital
Gatineau — Quebec side of the National Capital Region

H

Halifax — Nova Scotia capital and Atlantic Canada's largest city
Hamilton — Ontario, the steel city and waterfall capital

I – K

Iqaluit — Nunavut capital, Baffin Island
Inuvik — Northwest Territories, Arctic Circle road terminus
Kelowna — BC, Okanagan Lake and wine country
Kingston — Ontario, limestone city on Lake Ontario
Kitchener-Waterloo — Ontario tech corridor and university towns

L – M

Lethbridge — Southern Alberta coulee city
London — Ontario, on the other Thames
Montreal — Quebec, the largest French-speaking city in the Americas
Moncton — New Brunswick's bilingual hub
Moose Jaw — Saskatchewan, prohibition tunnels and prairie kitsch

N – O

Niagara Falls / Niagara-on-the-Lake — Ontario, the falls and the wine country
Ottawa — National capital

P – Q

Prince Albert — Northern Saskatchewan gateway
Prince George — Northern BC service centre
Quebec City — Quebec capital, walled city above the St. Lawrence

R – S

Regina — Saskatchewan capital
Saint John — New Brunswick port city
Saskatoon — Saskatchewan, the City of Bridges
Sherbrooke — Eastern Townships
St. John's — Newfoundland capital
Sydney — Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

T – V

Thunder Bay — Northwestern Ontario, on Lake Superior
Toronto — Ontario capital and Canada's largest city
Trois-Rivières — Quebec, between Montreal and Quebec City
Vancouver — BC, Pacific Rim metropolis
Victoria — BC capital, Vancouver Island

W – Y

Whitehorse — Yukon capital
Windsor — Ontario, across the river from Detroit
Winnipeg — Manitoba capital, the Heart of the Continent
Yellowknife — Northwest Territories capital, the aurora city