100 Biggest Cities in Canada on a Map

Thanks! I put the dots on manually, and then un-fill them. That's a good idea actually, and you are free to use any of my maps to make that! I cannot do anything much myself since I do each process by hand, just filling in the data takes ages...

Good idea!

Fixed. Also fixed the position of Welland-Pelham. Thank you.

Thanks! And I care - to be fixed soon - although Saint-Georges is a right metropolis in it's own right :)

The quiz uses metro population, meaning that cities connected to larger ones such as Vaughan and Brampton are considered a part of Toronto. Milton and Kanata are only seperated from Toronto and Ottawa (respectively) because they have fields between them and their parent city, despite being suburbs.

I should specify that these are population centres, rather than true metro areas. The Canadian government will divide metro areas when there is rural area inbetween the suburb and the city proper. In the case of White Rock it is seperated from Vancouver by fields.

Thank you! I am glad you think so.

Actually, the original map comes from this Jetpunk quiz but I modified the map, as I saw fit.

It is population-centre figures, so it's somewhere inbetween city proper and metro. As you probably guessed, Gatineau is absorbed into Ottawa. I 100% agree with you though that Kanata should be included in Ottawa's population figures (in fact I'm really tempted to grey that one out and go to 101 instead).

It is the price to pay for using population-centre figures, however, and I have much less issues with this measurement than I do with city-proper or metro area :)

It's because of the way the population is counted, check here

Statistics Canada calculates for different urban measurements at the same time: city proper population, population-centre (which includes all settlements within a built-up urban area regardless of administrative borders) and metro-areas/agglomerations (which includes surrounding administrative divisions, meaning the exact size of the agglomeration depends on the borders of the administrative units themselves).

For this quiz I used population-centre metrics, which actually has the smallest population figure for Whitehorse of any metric, as Whitehorse has large city-limits which encompass surrounding populated rural areas. On the other hand, Whitehorse's agglomeration is even larger, and stretches all the way to the BC border.

It's a good question though.

I agree! Especially in Ontario I have a big problem with the way that certain county-like regions are given the same status as a city (single-tier municipality), or when Fort McMurray in Alberta becomes 'Wood Buffalo'. There are many administrative reasons why this may be the case, but what matters on Jetpunk is to have the best guessing experience :)

Yes, administratively it is one unified city.

I didn't know that before, I added the type-in and I'll be sure to do that on future quizzes too!

Thanks for playing, I wanted to represent as many provinces (and regions of provinces as possible) so urban areas works well for that. I used to use Statistic Canada's population centres, but it has a few weird quirks like separating Kanata from Ottawa. Meanwhile if I used the city boundaries, half the quiz would be Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal suburbs and banlieuex haha.

I disagree, except perhaps with city proper. City proper is completely administrative, and so I find it to be a bad way to compare cities. It's like when cities like New Orleans or St. Louis top the homicide ranks, because the city-limits are small and closer to the more crime-ridden downtown core, while other cities draw the boundaries more broadly, bringing in more population to nullify crime per capita. In the case of Canada, it means counties with municipal-style government are technically 'cities'.

Population centres are generally much fairer, only counting the built-up, urbanised area we would probably call a 'city'. The one downside is that certain areas that locals do not think of as 'cities', and which do not function as cities, get counted separately.

Urban area is generally fair, although it never splits administrative units up, and therefore can cover huge footprints. I find it's good, although it combines cities sometimes and includes municipalised counties too :(

Also, I was surprised how much less concentrated the quiz got by using urban areas. Population centres and obviously and especially city proper has extreme favour towards Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver areas.

It's part of the Toronto urban area.