Talk:List of the largest population centres in Canada

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Sources

Where are the sources for this? Bearcat 07:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There you go. AshleyMorton 12:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is Kingston ranked 20 when it should be ranked 25? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.162.185.123 (talk) 00:22, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ottawa rural band

"and then a rural band," Someone hasn't been to Ottawa in a long time.

Well, in 2001, it was still the case that there was a continuous "barrier" of non-densely-populated land between Ottawa and Kanata. I would not be surprised to discover that they have been merged into one "Urban Area" once the 2006 results are out. AshleyMorton 16:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here, you can see the rural band from this: [1]. AshleyMorton 16:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Rank

Is it just me or should Quebec City be ranked 9 with Winnipeg and Hamilton each moving up one?

The populations are listed as:

7 Quebec City, Quebec 612,925

8 Winnipeg, Manitoba 626,685

9 Hamilton, Ontario 618,820

-IToba 03:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is Whitehorse not on the list? On its page, it lists the population as high enough to be in the top 100.

18,122 according to the census on Whitehorse. Benkenobi18 23:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where are Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington?

According to List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada, Tornto+Mississauga has 5,1 million residents, so Toronto here obviously doesn't include Mississauga. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.96.231 (talk) 07:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Information is taken from Statistics Canada's 2006 Census. The intial part of the article explains that there are differences between all three. Benkenobi18 00:03, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newmarket, Ontario

Newmarket, Ontario had a population of atleast 70 odd thousand in 2006, now up to 80,000, so I don't know why they're not listed on the page. On Newmarket's page their 2006 census population is listed as 74,295, I think they need to be included on the list.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.130.79 (talk) 23:22, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Newmarket is included as part of the Urban Area of Toronto - you may also notice a lack of Mississauga. AshleyMorton (talk) 10:31, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Physical size

Where would one find the physical size (square kilometres) of each of these urban areas? --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone has added a citation that link to StatsCan that shows the land area of each of these urban areas. Anyone want to add them? --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:57, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can after the 2011 census results are released in February. That way the populations can be updated and land areas added concurrently. Hwy43 (talk) 05:00, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. --Criticalthinker (talk) 01:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Toronto

Hamilton, Toronto,and Oshawa are now tethered together with the criteria set forth in the article. As such, Toronto, Hamilton and Oshawa form I contiguous urban area, and reaches a pop near 6 mil. Check google earth if you have any doubts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.171.231.18 (talk) 23:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Urban areas/population centres do not cross census metropolitan area boundaries. Hamilton, Toronto and Oshawa are not "tethered together" until Statistics Canada decides to tether them together by merging them into one statistical unit — which, as of the 2011 census, they still haven't done. It's not our role to make up our own alternative statistics on Wikipedia; if StatsCan doesn't combine Hamilton, Toronto and Oshawa into a single urban area with a population cracking six mil, then neither do we. Bearcat (talk) 00:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

White Rock BC & Vancouver BC

Interesting that White Rock (entry #40), a city of under 20k, is listed as a 70k city. Even more curious is that it is listed separately from the Vancouver population, which I surmise to be the entire GVTA or Metro Vancouver area, and White Rock is a constituent member of both demographic areas. -Kain (talk) 11:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't listed as a city at all. This article lists "urban areas" as defined by Statistics Canada, not metropolitan areas or municipalities. This is the source table. Hwy43 (talk) 17:33, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The "Vancouver urban area", as defined for the purposes of this article, is the figure listed by Statistics Canada as being the population of the series of dissemination blocks, emanating outward from downtown Vancouver, which meet the standard of having a population of at least 1,000 and a population density of at least 400/km². This has nothing to do with the municipal boundaries of the city of Vancouver, or of the GVTA as a whole; in any given direction, the urban area ends as soon as it hits a dissemination block that falls below that "urban" standard, regardless of whether that corresponds to any sort of municipal or political or sociocultural boundary — and as long as the dissemination blocks stay above that standard, the urban area can blindly shoot right past a municipal or political or sociocultural boundary too. (Toronto's urban area, for example, rockets almost all the way up to Bradford along the Yonge Street corridor, but there's also another part of the city where it doesn't even cross to the other side of Steeles Avenue, because the non-Toronto side of the street in that particular area isn't developed at all.)

From looking at Google Maps, I can confirm that Vancouver and White Rock are listed as separate urban areas because there's a sizable band of non-urbanized land separating White Rock from the rest of Surrey. I'm betting you already knew that — but what it means is that Vancouver and White Rock are not demographically contiguous with each other, because there's a band of non-urban area between them. Similarly, Ladner and Tsawassen are part of Vancouver's urban area, but North Delta is not, because there's a massive patch of undeveloped land (park, I'm guessing?) right in the middle of it which almost certainly knocks its population density down below an urban standard. The fact that they're all part of a common government entity is irrelevant to the matter, because any city or metropolitan area can have several distinct "urban areas" (Sudbury has six, Ottawa has seven, the Greater Toronto Area has at least eight) if there are areas of non-urbanized land between the more urbanized ones. It's all about the demographic patterns, and has nothing to do with political boundaries. Bearcat (talk) 00:44, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2011 census update and article move

Further to the "update" tag recently added to this article, Statistics Canada has abandoned the term "urban area" in favour of "population centre" with three sub-types. For a quick summary, see Census geographic units of Canada#Population centres and the specific StatCan reference for more detail.

This therefore begs the question, should this article be moved to List of the 100 largest population centres in Canada by population? Please provide concerns/comments before I be bold and move it. Hwy43 (talk) 06:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Be bold. Perhaps include previous years' counts in the table, if population centre and urban area are close enough in definition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.65.0.107 (talk) 22:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of Ottawa?

First time in Wikipedia, not at all sure this is the right place/ way to post a question/ comment. However, I'll give it a go and please let me know where this question should be properly posted.

Question: the photo of Ottawa, labelled Canada's Capital, looks not a smidge familiar. Could it possibly be Ottawa, Illinois or Kansas? Or if it is actually Ottawa, Ontario, perhaps a more familiar skyline would be helpful, with the Parliament buildings, Canal, National Gallery, Museum of Civilsation or other such recognizable landmarks?

Thanks! Michelle — Preceding unsigned comment added by MNCampbell (talk • contribs) 14:22, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That photo doesn't really show anything identifiably or distinctively Ottawa, but it doesn't really show anything identifiably or distinctively not Ottawa either — it's just a generic "office buildings and apartments" shot that could have been taken from an apartment balcony anywhere in Centretown, or could just as easily be a mislabelling of a photo taken in almost any other city. I do agree that a shot of a more signature Ottawa scene would be more useful here than a generic urban streetscape. Bearcat (talk) 14:31, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lethbridge Population Wrong

I'm not actually sure how to change this part while providing a source.

The table says that 87,572 is the population as of 2016. However, Statistics Canada lists the following population from their 2016 census: 92,729 Skyturnrouge (talk) 03:41, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it looks like a few others a wrong. Maybe a full update needs to be done. Again, I'm unsure as to how to do this (or how to aid this). Perhaps someone can either do it or give me guidance on how to do this? Here are my two problems: - how do you provide sources in a table when each row of the table needs different sources - this page is edit-locked Skyturnrouge (talk) 03:43, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Skyturnrouge: You're confusing the population of the city of Lethbridge (map) with the population of the population centre of Lethbridge (map). Cobblet (talk) 03:54, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I'm not understanding this right, but the population of the city in the link you provided still says 92,729 Skyturnrouge (talk) 04:06, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]