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Maybe I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that Saint John, NB was Canada's oldest city, not St. John's NL. mylesmalley 02:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Currently, this page is a mess.
I think that this page should be a list of Canada's larger cities in alphabetical order, not by province and territory, since we already have lists of cities by province and territory (to which this page should link).
If there are no objections, I'll effect this rearrangement. - Montréalais
This is a nice rearrangement, Montrealais, and my next comment may be baised as an Ontarioan, but Brampton and Mississauga, Ontario are 350,000 and 600,000 people strong respectively. Yes, they are part of the GTA, but we are in a seperate municipality than the megacity, we have a much different suburban culture than about 82% (a guess) of the population.
Would it be possible for an indented section underneath, like so?
Winkler was given city status on 2002-04-07.
Winkler's official web site history page: http://www.mywinkler.com/historical.html
I couldn't find any pages at gov.mb.ca about the upgrade, but their site refers to "City of Winkler" since that date; eg: http://www.communityprofiles.mb.ca/cgi-bin/csd/index.cgi?id=4603050
-- Michael Z. 00:56, 2004 Aug 14 (UTC)
What does it mean that there are no longer any cities in Nova Scotia?
If that is correct, then it needs some kind of explanation...
I've been to the US on many occasions and even lived there for a few years. In my experience, even the best-educated Americans cannot name more than 3 Canadian cities, unless of course that is one of their specialties.
I applaud Wikipedia for providing this valuable resource to our geographically-impaired cousins to the south. Steve Rapaport
I'm not sure why someone removed the work that I did but I have a good explaination why I put all those places in. All the places I put in were towns but since they were amalgamated into RM they than have larger population than some cities on this list. It is clearly marked a the top that there are no more cities in Nova Scotia and so I put in RM's. I also did this to show that we don't have just 2 RM's that deserve recognition. The fact that we only have 2 RM's ( Halifax Regional Municipality pop. - 359,183 and Sydney Regional Municipality or the Cape Breton Regional Municipality pop. - 109 300) that have enough population to be recognized is wrong. I think that you might have not done enough research to look for other RM's that have some kind of significant population. For example Truro, Nova Scotia the population of the actual town is only 11, 457 (and as a side note, places like Winkler, Manitoba only have a population of 9, 000 but are given "city" status) and the area (meaning municipality) is 44, 276. Please don't remove my work.
Haldimand County and Norfolk County have been removed from the article. Even though they are both single-tier municipalities and have since removed any lower-tier reference to their official corporate name (e.g. The Corporation of Haldimand County is the official corporate name for Haldimand County), they were both incorporated as towns in 2000, and this has not since changed. As a result, they have been removed from the Cities of Canada article.
I think the Quebec section has too many cities. I'd remove some of the less important ones myself, but I don't know Quebec too well... -- Selmo 20:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps we should limit the list of cities to include only provincial/territorial capitals, and cities with a population of at least 10,000. Many of the cities listed do not even have articles on Wikipedia, and others have very small populations. No worries though, I won't do anything without some feedback. Basser g 14:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
This list should include any and all communities whose legal designation is "city", regardless of their population. In many provinces, 10,000 is the population cutoff for city status, but not in all; we need to respect the legal definitions. Occasionally people have added communities that aren't incorporated as cities; the answer to that is to remove them. But any community whose provincial government has legally incorporated it as a city should be on here, period. Quebec's a tricky case, admittedly. Bearcat 11:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
A minor issue, but as a jaded Edmontonian-Vancouver transplant, I find it hard to believe that Calgary is the third largest municipality in the country. The List of 100 Largest "Metropolitan Areas" seems to say otherwise. Can anyone cite the claim? Thanks. - Woozy8 00:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Once all the provinces have an intro paragraph stating their requirements for city status, could this article become a featured list candidate? Could more experienced editors post what's left to be done for this list? Thank you. Bobo is soft 23:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Why are there places lifted that are barely villages, let alone cities? Alaric the Goth 00:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC) The regulations for what constitutes a city in Canada is left to the regulatory authories in each province. So for example, in Manitoba, a city needs to have 7500 residents to be able to become a city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstamara ( talk • contribs) 14:59, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
You may find it usefull (perhaps not anymore now that the category was deleted) to peruse the cities that link to the different timezones. (ex. User:CyclePat/UTC Timezone show what I tried to do) I tried to make prove it's usefullness but CfD prevailed. Not enough support for such a category. So, just to let you know that many cities utilize the {{ template:Infobox city}}. Many cities have a link to the related UTC timezone. You can find a list of cities by clicking the corresponding UTC timezone (ex.: UTC-5 for Ontario), and then clicking the What links here. And if ever you feel like bringing back the category we will need at least 5 people to support this. GO to my project WP:CCT and start a section to voice your opinion. When we have enough people we'll start the cat. -- CyclePat 22:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I changed the name of Brome Lake in the Quebec section from "Lac-Brome" to "Brome Lake". This change has been reverted. I support my original change, but will make my point here and invite discussion before changing back...
a) The article about the municipality (ville) is located at Brome Lake, Quebec, not Lac-Brome.
b) The above, and some simple Googling can easily convince one that that the English name of the location and the municipality is "Brome Lake".
c) The link in the text redirects to "Brome Lake", anyway.
d) The website of the Town government itself uses "Town of Brome Lake" in English and "Ville de Lac-Brome" in French. [2]
e) If Stats Can were the only valid source (Stats Can was referenced in the edit summary of the person who undid my change), then Montreal should have an accent on the "e". However, it doesn't, because that's not the name of that place in English.
f) Other lists of cities (such as, say, World's largest municipalities by population) don't use foreign names (vis: "Mexico City", not "Ciudad de México")
I don't want to be a pissant about this - there are people who try to Anglicise things beyond any reasonability, and I don't want to be one of them. However, I do believe that in this case, the English name really is "Brome Lake" AshleyMorton ( talk) 21:04, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
With this
, "Lac-Brome" was dropped in favour of "Brome Lake". Per the previous discussion above, I feel it is necessary to retain "Lac-Brome" in some manner to ensure that a reader can navigate to the information about this ville at the StatCan reference that supports its population. I also agree however that "Brome Lake" should be the primary entry for alphabetization of the table per the article name on English Wikipedia.
The user that made the above edit and I have discussed this
back and
forth on our talk pages. As a result, I will change the entry for [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Brome Lake]] to [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Brome Lake]] (Lac-Brome).
Hwy43 (
talk) 05:20, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Some Ontario Counties have been added to the list. Although these few select counties may run like a city government, they are in no way a city, nor do they claim to be. I think they need to be removed from the list. UrbanNerd ( talk) 03:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that Saint John, NB was Canada's oldest city, not St. John's NL. mylesmalley 02:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Currently, this page is a mess.
I think that this page should be a list of Canada's larger cities in alphabetical order, not by province and territory, since we already have lists of cities by province and territory (to which this page should link).
If there are no objections, I'll effect this rearrangement. - Montréalais
This is a nice rearrangement, Montrealais, and my next comment may be baised as an Ontarioan, but Brampton and Mississauga, Ontario are 350,000 and 600,000 people strong respectively. Yes, they are part of the GTA, but we are in a seperate municipality than the megacity, we have a much different suburban culture than about 82% (a guess) of the population.
Would it be possible for an indented section underneath, like so?
Winkler was given city status on 2002-04-07.
Winkler's official web site history page: http://www.mywinkler.com/historical.html
I couldn't find any pages at gov.mb.ca about the upgrade, but their site refers to "City of Winkler" since that date; eg: http://www.communityprofiles.mb.ca/cgi-bin/csd/index.cgi?id=4603050
-- Michael Z. 00:56, 2004 Aug 14 (UTC)
What does it mean that there are no longer any cities in Nova Scotia?
If that is correct, then it needs some kind of explanation...
I've been to the US on many occasions and even lived there for a few years. In my experience, even the best-educated Americans cannot name more than 3 Canadian cities, unless of course that is one of their specialties.
I applaud Wikipedia for providing this valuable resource to our geographically-impaired cousins to the south. Steve Rapaport
I'm not sure why someone removed the work that I did but I have a good explaination why I put all those places in. All the places I put in were towns but since they were amalgamated into RM they than have larger population than some cities on this list. It is clearly marked a the top that there are no more cities in Nova Scotia and so I put in RM's. I also did this to show that we don't have just 2 RM's that deserve recognition. The fact that we only have 2 RM's ( Halifax Regional Municipality pop. - 359,183 and Sydney Regional Municipality or the Cape Breton Regional Municipality pop. - 109 300) that have enough population to be recognized is wrong. I think that you might have not done enough research to look for other RM's that have some kind of significant population. For example Truro, Nova Scotia the population of the actual town is only 11, 457 (and as a side note, places like Winkler, Manitoba only have a population of 9, 000 but are given "city" status) and the area (meaning municipality) is 44, 276. Please don't remove my work.
Haldimand County and Norfolk County have been removed from the article. Even though they are both single-tier municipalities and have since removed any lower-tier reference to their official corporate name (e.g. The Corporation of Haldimand County is the official corporate name for Haldimand County), they were both incorporated as towns in 2000, and this has not since changed. As a result, they have been removed from the Cities of Canada article.
I think the Quebec section has too many cities. I'd remove some of the less important ones myself, but I don't know Quebec too well... -- Selmo 20:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps we should limit the list of cities to include only provincial/territorial capitals, and cities with a population of at least 10,000. Many of the cities listed do not even have articles on Wikipedia, and others have very small populations. No worries though, I won't do anything without some feedback. Basser g 14:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
This list should include any and all communities whose legal designation is "city", regardless of their population. In many provinces, 10,000 is the population cutoff for city status, but not in all; we need to respect the legal definitions. Occasionally people have added communities that aren't incorporated as cities; the answer to that is to remove them. But any community whose provincial government has legally incorporated it as a city should be on here, period. Quebec's a tricky case, admittedly. Bearcat 11:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
A minor issue, but as a jaded Edmontonian-Vancouver transplant, I find it hard to believe that Calgary is the third largest municipality in the country. The List of 100 Largest "Metropolitan Areas" seems to say otherwise. Can anyone cite the claim? Thanks. - Woozy8 00:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Once all the provinces have an intro paragraph stating their requirements for city status, could this article become a featured list candidate? Could more experienced editors post what's left to be done for this list? Thank you. Bobo is soft 23:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Why are there places lifted that are barely villages, let alone cities? Alaric the Goth 00:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC) The regulations for what constitutes a city in Canada is left to the regulatory authories in each province. So for example, in Manitoba, a city needs to have 7500 residents to be able to become a city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstamara ( talk • contribs) 14:59, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
You may find it usefull (perhaps not anymore now that the category was deleted) to peruse the cities that link to the different timezones. (ex. User:CyclePat/UTC Timezone show what I tried to do) I tried to make prove it's usefullness but CfD prevailed. Not enough support for such a category. So, just to let you know that many cities utilize the {{ template:Infobox city}}. Many cities have a link to the related UTC timezone. You can find a list of cities by clicking the corresponding UTC timezone (ex.: UTC-5 for Ontario), and then clicking the What links here. And if ever you feel like bringing back the category we will need at least 5 people to support this. GO to my project WP:CCT and start a section to voice your opinion. When we have enough people we'll start the cat. -- CyclePat 22:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I changed the name of Brome Lake in the Quebec section from "Lac-Brome" to "Brome Lake". This change has been reverted. I support my original change, but will make my point here and invite discussion before changing back...
a) The article about the municipality (ville) is located at Brome Lake, Quebec, not Lac-Brome.
b) The above, and some simple Googling can easily convince one that that the English name of the location and the municipality is "Brome Lake".
c) The link in the text redirects to "Brome Lake", anyway.
d) The website of the Town government itself uses "Town of Brome Lake" in English and "Ville de Lac-Brome" in French. [2]
e) If Stats Can were the only valid source (Stats Can was referenced in the edit summary of the person who undid my change), then Montreal should have an accent on the "e". However, it doesn't, because that's not the name of that place in English.
f) Other lists of cities (such as, say, World's largest municipalities by population) don't use foreign names (vis: "Mexico City", not "Ciudad de México")
I don't want to be a pissant about this - there are people who try to Anglicise things beyond any reasonability, and I don't want to be one of them. However, I do believe that in this case, the English name really is "Brome Lake" AshleyMorton ( talk) 21:04, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
With this
, "Lac-Brome" was dropped in favour of "Brome Lake". Per the previous discussion above, I feel it is necessary to retain "Lac-Brome" in some manner to ensure that a reader can navigate to the information about this ville at the StatCan reference that supports its population. I also agree however that "Brome Lake" should be the primary entry for alphabetization of the table per the article name on English Wikipedia.
The user that made the above edit and I have discussed this
back and
forth on our talk pages. As a result, I will change the entry for [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Brome Lake]] to [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Brome Lake]] (Lac-Brome).
Hwy43 (
talk) 05:20, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Some Ontario Counties have been added to the list. Although these few select counties may run like a city government, they are in no way a city, nor do they claim to be. I think they need to be removed from the list. UrbanNerd ( talk) 03:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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