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Canada Cities by Population

300 cities shown of 716 total Canada cities that are over 1,000 in population...

1. Toronto 4,612,191
2. Montreal 3,268,513
3. Vancouver 1,837,969
4. Calgary 1,019,942
5. Ottawa 812,129
6. Edmonton 712,391
7. Mississauga 668,549
8. North York 636,000
9. Winnipeg 632,063
10. Quebec 528,595
11. Hamilton 504,559
12. Brampton 433,806
13. Kitchener 409,112
14. Surrey 394,976
15. Laval 376,845
16. Halifax 359,111
17. London 346,765
18. Victoria 289,625
19. Windsor 278,013
20. Oshawa 247,989
21. Gatineau 242,124
22. Vaughan 238,866
23. Longueuil 229,330
24. Burnaby 202,799
25. Ladner 200,000
26. Saskatoon 198,958
27. Barrie 182,041
28. Richmond 182,000
29. Regina 176,183
30. Burlington 164,415
31. Greater Sudbury 157,857
32. Abbotsford 151,683
33. Saguenay 143,692
34. St. Catharines 131,989
35. Sherbrooke 129,447
36. Levis 126,396
37. Kelowna 125,109
38. Cambridge 120,372
39. Trois-Rivieres 119,693
40. Guelph 115,760
41. Coquitlam 114,565
42. Kingston 114,195
43. Chatham-Kent 108,589
44. Sydney 105,968
45. Delta 101,668
46. Dartmouth 101,343
47. Thunder Bay 99,334
48. St. John's 99,182
49. Waterloo 97,475
50. Terrebonne 94,703
51. Langley 93,726
52. Saint John 87,857
53. Pickering 87,838
54. Brantford 87,759
55. Moncton 87,467
56. Nanaimo 84,905
57. Sarnia 82,998
58. Niagara Falls 82,000
59. Saint-Laurent 77,391
60. Repentigny 76,237
61. Peterborough 75,877
62. Sault Ste. Marie 74,948
63. Kawartha Lakes 74,561
64. Red Deer 73,593
65. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 71,613
66. Lethbridge 70,617
67. Maple Ridge 70,000
68. Brossard 69,575
69. Chilliwack 69,217
70. Kamloops 68,714
71. White Rock 66,450
72. Prince George 65,558
73. Medicine Hat 63,138
74. Norfolk County 60,847
75. Drummondville 59,489
76. New Westminster 58,549
77. St. Albert 57,719
78. Sherwood Park 55,063
79. Saint-Jerome 54,948
80. Jonquiere 54,842
81. Granby 53,979
82. Fredericton 52,337
83. Welland 50,331
84. Saint-Hyacinthe 50,326
85. North Bay 50,170
86. Shawinigan 49,161
87. Dollard-Des Ormeaux 48,930
88. Belleville 48,821
89. Cornwall 48,821
90. North Vancouver 48,000
91. Vernon 47,274
92. Blainville 46,493
93. Haldimand County 45,212
94. Timmins 42,997
95. Chateauguay 42,786
96. Quinte West 42,697
97. Charlottetown 42,402
98. Rimouski 42,240
99. Saint-Eustache 42,062
100. Grande Prairie 41,462

101. Boucherville 39,062
102. Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 38,662
103. Penticton 37,721
104. St. Thomas 36,110
105. Joliette 34,772
106. Mascouche 34,626
107. Mirabel 34,626
108. Prince Albert 34,609
109. Mission 34,505
110. Victoriaville 34,426
111. Brant 34,415
112. Woodstock 33,892
113. Sorel-Tracy 33,591
114. Campbell River 33,430
115. Courtenay 32,793
116. Orangeville 32,640
117. North Cowichan 32,272
118. Moose Jaw 32,166
119. Midland 31,502
120. Cote-Saint-Luc 31,395
121. Val-d'Or 31,123
122. Leamington 30,428
123. Stratford 30,233
124. Orillia 30,178
125. Pointe-Claire 30,161
126. Baie-Comeau 29,808
127. Bellechasse Regional County Municipality 29,570
128. Alma 29,526
129. Sainte-Julie 29,019
130. West Kelowna 28,793
131. Port Moody 27,512
132. Boisbriand 26,483
133. Brandon 26,234
134. Vaudreuil-Dorion 25,789
135. Thetford-Mines 25,704
136. Walnut Grove 25,683
137. Prince Edward 25,496
138. Sainte-Therese 25,224
139. Airdrie 24,673
140. Mount Pearl 24,671
141. Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 24,388
142. Rouyn-Noranda 24,023
143. Saint-Constant 23,957
144. Brockville 23,886
145. Langley 23,606
146. Whitehorse 23,272
147. Owen Sound 22,625
148. Chambly 22,608
149. Sept-Iles 22,582
150. Langford 22,459
151. Duncan 22,199
152. La Prairie 21,763
153. Saint-Lambert 21,599
154. Port Alberni 21,282
155. Parksville 21,150
156. Keswick 21,000
157. Varennes 20,950
158. Clarence-Rockland 20,790
159. Truro 20,650
160. Westmount 20,494
161. Kirkland 20,491
162. New Glasgow 20,322
163. Cole Harbour 20,000
164. Glace Bay 19,968
165. Huntsville 19,579
166. Terrace 19,443
167. North Battleford 19,440
168. Beaconsfield 19,194
169. Mont-Royal 18,933
170. Beloeil 18,927
171. Bradford West Gwillimbury 18,811
172. Corner Brook 18,693
173. Cranbrook 18,610
174. Port Colborne 18,599
175. Riviere-du-Loup 18,586
176. Dieppe 18,565
177. Thorold 18,224
178. Miramichi 18,129
179. Cobourg 18,099
180. Dorval 18,088
181. Amos 17,918
182. Spruce Grove 17,767
183. Pitt Meadows 17,410
184. Deux-Montagnes 17,402
185. Fort St. John 17,402
186. Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures 17,281
187. Conception Bay South 17,087
188. Saint-Lazare 17,016
189. L'Assomption 16,738
190. Edmundston 16,643
191. L'Ancienne-Lorette 16,516
192. Cochrane 16,365
193. Sainte-Catherine 16,211
194. Salmon Arm 16,205
195. Fort Erie 15,953
196. Candiac 15,947
197. Lloydminster 15,910
198. Yellowknife 15,865
199. Collingwood 15,809
200. Mont-Saint-Hilaire 15,720

201. Camrose 15,686
202. Saint-Basile-le-Grand 15,605
203. Leduc 15,561
204. Pembroke 15,551
205. Magog 15,550
206. Kenora 15,177
207. Yorkton 15,172
208. Greater Napanee 15,132
209. Matane 15,000
210. Fort Saskatchewan 14,957
211. Okotoks 14,826
212. Gaspe 14,819
213. Summerside 14,808
214. Prince Rupert 14,708
215. Swift Current 14,703
216. Colwood 14,687
217. Rosemere 14,173
218. Williams Lake 14,168
219. Saint-Lin--Laurentides 14,159
220. Quesnel 13,788
221. Bay Roberts 13,737
222. Mont-Laurier 13,405
223. Portage la Prairie 12,957
224. Dolbeau-Mistassini 12,916
225. Powell River 12,779
226. Brooks 12,744
227. Bathurst 12,714
228. Kentville 12,636
229. Elliot Lake 12,508
230. Thompson 12,467
231. Aldergrove 12,363
232. Canmore 12,288
233. Hawkesbury 12,283
234. Grand Falls-Windsor 12,076
235. Beauharnois 11,918
236. Ingersoll 11,874
237. Montmagny 11,724
238. Cold Lake 11,595
239. Sainte-Marie 11,584
240. Amherstburg 11,459
241. Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac 11,311
242. Wetaskiwin 11,302
243. Petawawa 11,256
244. Pincourt 11,197
245. Paris 11,177
246. Becancour 11,134
247. Cowansville 10,887
248. Dawson Creek 10,802
249. Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines 10,680
250. Sainte-Adele 10,634
251. Les Coteaux 10,622
252. Whistler 10,600
253. Smiths Falls 10,553
254. Sylvan Lake 10,518
255. Temiskaming Shores 10,442
256. Rawdon 10,400
257. Labrador City 10,313
258. Angus 10,269
259. Prevost 10,132
260. Mercier 10,121
261. Lacombe 10,059
262. Strathmore 10,009
263. Bells Corners 9,977
264. L'Ile-Perrot 9,927
265. Estevan 9,904
266. Hinton 9,889
267. Notre-Dame-de-l'Ile-Perrot 9,885
268. High River 9,826
269. Nelson 9,813
270. Carleton Place 9,743
271. Trail 9,707
272. Selkirk 9,653
273. Lorraine 9,613
274. Arnprior 9,607
275. Steinbach 9,607
276. Lachute 9,562
277. Val-des-Monts 9,539
278. La Tuque 9,503
279. Weyburn 9,362
280. Amherst 9,336
281. Roberval 9,287
282. Saint-Raymond 9,273
283. Kapuskasing 9,240
284. Saint-Sauveur 9,191
285. Oromocto 8,998
286. Kitimat 8,987
287. La Malbaie 8,959
288. Stony Plain 8,939
289. Mont-Tremblant 8,892
290. Whitecourt 8,763
291. Lavaltrie 8,762
292. Ladysmith 8,740
293. Castlegar 8,715
294. Otterburn Park 8,464
295. Dauphin 8,418
296. Bois-des-Filion 8,383
297. Winkler 8,270
298. Bracebridge 8,238
299. Notre-Dame-des-Prairies 8,230
300. Dryden 8,195

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Canada History

The name Canada comes from a St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata, meaning village"" or ""settlement"". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier towards the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but also the entire area subject to Donnacona; by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada."

From the early 17th century onwards, that part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes was named Canada, an area that was later split into two British colonies, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, until their re-unification as the Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country, and Dominion was conferred as the country's title; combined, the term Dominion of Canada was in common usage until the 1950s. Thereafter, as Canada asserted its political autonomy from Britain, the federal government increasingly used simply Canada on state documents and treaties, a change that was reflected in the renaming of the national holiday from Dominion Day to Canada Day in 1982.

First Nation and Inuit traditions maintain that indigenous people have resided on their lands since the beginning of time, while archaeological studies support a human presence in the northern Yukon from 26,500 years ago, and in southern Ontario from 9,500 years ago. Europeans first arrived when the Vikings settled briefly at L'Anse aux Meadows around AD 1000; following the failure of that colony, there was no further attempt at North American exploration until 1497, when John Cabot explored Canada's Atlantic coast for England, followed by Jacques Cartier in 1534 for France.

French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived in 1603 and established the first permanent European settlements at Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec City in 1608. These would become respectively the capitals of Acadia and Canada. Among French colonists of New France, Canadiens extensively settled the Saint Lawrence River valley, Acadians settled the present-day Maritimes, while French fur traders and Catholic missionaries explored the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay and the Mississippi watershed to Louisiana. The French and Iroquois Wars broke out over control of the fur trade.