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I love your channel, Greg, Springfield, Louisiana, USA

I thought Mississauga was over a million.

wow your info on Saskatoon is out of date, our population is well over 300,000, probably a little over 350,000 tbh

Born and raised in Surrey, It's hugeeee but doesnt have the infrastructure to handle all the people coming

you hinted at edmontons value to the north but could have gone deeper into albertas/edmontons value for supply to the NWT .. and maybe saskatoon should have been mentioned as it is growing as well and its value to northern saskatchewan minerals/resources

I've long noticed that Canada is different from the US in that many US cities are surrounded by a large collection of small suburbs while that is rarely the case in Canada. In Canada we either have a central city that covers most of the metro area leaving no (or few) separate suburbs at all, or there are a small number of very large suburbs. You can see the single city model in Calgary, Alberta, Winnipeg, and Halifax, while you can see the few large suburbs model in Toronto and Vancouver. Montreal is a slight exception but even its suburbs are fewer and larger than you'd typically see in the US.

Same with Scandinavian cities, Stockholm is located at the same latitude as Juneau AK but has the population of greater Seattle

Love that you are talking about "cities proper" and not metro areas, census, areas, etc...

By population for sure they are large especially Mississauga and Surrey, but on the other side, both of the municipalities are large in land sizes and flat (most of it) which make it easy to crate a relatively affordable housing market compare to the Core City like Vancouver and Toronto. Keep it up my fellow planner, waves from BC.

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Excellent information as usual. On another note.. The most desirable city in Canada is Penticton. Climate, location, and recreation contribute to its success.

Of course Edmonton’s warmer than Winnipeg look north bakers lake and Hudson Bay are right there and a thing called the ocean or northwest passage duh grade six history maybe grade3

when i look at this map i see the 51st state.

At 3000 ft in sask theres a lake of fresh water bigger than the province of sask

As an American, I'm surprised not seeing Brampton among the four cities. Gotta say that Ottawa caught me a little off-guard, though, and I was there only eight weeks ago. But, if you're showcasing four cities, there's only room for four - that's how that works, lol. Missisauga, though, was the very first one that came to my mind before I "looked".

Interesting! I can understand Surrey's growth, given the west coast climate; not so clear on why Edmonton has grown instead of Calgary? Any thoughts on this?

We can not compare cities like this bro. C’mon. Suburbs are suburbs, and délimitations are just for administration. Any city in Canada our USA have the Same fckg rules. As Read above. For example Ottawa has joined all rural areas for administration pumping it up. Bad title for this post. Métro areas, are the only way to compare in urbanism.

Not Canadian but still surprised how big Edmonton turns out to be. Made me think of East Texas with the energy economy, right down to the sister cities.

As a Vancouverite, I knew you would pick Surrey. The city proper covers a huge area including the hills where most people live on and the farmlands all the way to the southern border. However, the growth of the city is not without drawbacks. Like most Canadian cities, Surrey is a car-centric suburban hell with wide residential streets and huge lots for huge homes. Many cul-de-sacs within the half-mile city blocks makes walking to bus routes awkward and discouraged. The city has a reputation of attracting crime and gangs due to proximity with the border and lax surveillance in the farmlands. Now, they can get away with taller glass and concrete condos without a height restriction like Vancouver does because of Coast Mountains NIMBYism. The SkyTrain is finally expanding further along the Fraser Highway. Surrey shares the same problems with Vancouver by proximity but a few things have gotten better over the decades.

Google earth looks like they need to revisit Surrey. Way more high rises now

What about Shittshtain Saskatchewan ?? I heard they just got a Giant Tiger !!!

Go with sq km.

You do fantastic work Cameron! But I'm still not buying any more tsx.v 😅

Funny that density is so low as a large part of Ottawa is Greenbelt

I'm actually often surprised that so many well-known US cities like San Francisco, Boston and Seattle are under one million.

Bruh what kind of list is this. Bro just listed the top 10 cities in Canada

Mississauga also has a great waterfront. I worked there for years and originally hated it... Horrible traffic, huge Bleak industrial areas, etc)... but ended up liking the older less built up parts, the waterfront, and the parks. Not for me but I can see why people live there.

Brampton is 700k. Surprised its not on here. Right beside Mississauga.

I live in Edmonton, and the climate here is actually better than Winnipeg. Winter is very sunny and fairly dry. We tend to not get the huge dumps of snow Calgary gets, as they're closer to the mountains. But they are also at a higher altitude, and can get bitterly cold. But they also get a much stronger chinook. Summers in Edmonton are generally supposed to be fairly wet. We normally get 2 or 3 thunderstorms a week throughout summer, but the last few years have been incredibly dry. That is not normal. In the last 4 years, summers have also been getting far more days above 30 degrees. This past summer, after I spent 2 weeks in Tokyo where it was averaging 37-38 degrees with high humidity, we returned to Edmonton to very similar temperatures, but drier. But it did not feel cooler because of the intensity of the sun. But I would say that summer is absolutely beautiful here, and with the amount of greenspace in the city, the outdoors are very busy. My wife is from Japan, and she has come to love Edmonton. Why? Because it is a comfortable city to live in, has great access to Japanese food (among other ethnic foods), great festivals, a growing train system (she's from Japan, I lived there for 11 years, and we love being able to get around by train), amazing outdoor activities, and it's not boring. So many people who don't live in Edmonton think it's boring, but there's actually a lot going on.

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Amazing that 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the US border in a country that is the second largest in the world by land mass pretty pathetic!!!

Gaming with an American from Texas, who was shocked I hadn't heard of his hometown of like 50,000 people but had never heard of Edmonton, home to a million.... shock.

what is surprising about surrey? its new india

Most are completely unaffordable

Reason way Edmonton is growing is NOT because of how much housing and stuff costs BUT IS because of emigrants coming into the area.

To all Americans who believe it's all igloos, moose and beaver pelts on a dog sled. Pay attention.

Canadian cities that are larger than you think? Only if you’re not Canadian! And especially if you’re American!

Mississauga is west of Toronto, not east.

Blame out of control immigration

The Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge/Guelph urban aglomeration is the better part of 1 million at this point and growing. Great area and only getting bigger and better

ahem, they just, like, revised our population, ok? anchorage is now, like, so totally at 300,000 again :-P actually i think we are they did just revise the numbers

not many Canadians know anything about Canada especially the new comers. and I don't think they. give a SHITE. BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM A COUNTRY THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW ANTHING ABOUT WHERE THEY WRE BORN. BUT RELIGION RULED

Most of the population of these cities are immigrants that weren't in the country even 5 years ago. Canada is honestly just cooked. Every city is just becoming India.

Just another banger video! Great stuff :D :D

meh Mississauga is just Toronto

RE: Ottawa- Gatineau is an integral part of Ottawa and that would elevate the population numbers close to 1.5 million (the CMA has two portions, ON and QC)

Thanks to Eastern Canadian cities restructuring/amalgamation that happened in late 1990s, many of the main urban hubs has amalgamated with surrounding cities, towns and farmlands to make 1 large city. This happened to Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, London, Gatineau, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, etc (although some former cities in Quebec voted to demerge) - and thus see a jump in their population growth.

Good video. I've got some nitpicks though... I'd say Milton is southwest of Mississauga, and Oakville is south of Mississauga. Rather than as you described in the video. I think some other cities like Halifax could've gotten onto this list, however. Most cities you've mentioned seem oddly populous at first, but you could probably think of some reasons as to why they're so big even without being a huge geography nerd (e.g. Mississauga/Surrey being in the metropolitan areas of 2 of Canada's biggest and most well-known cities, and Edmonton being economically prosperous/important). Most don't expect any Atlantic Canadian cities to be more than just "city" in name. And I think there's some issues with how you clipped your mic audio to fit the video, it seems like you're clipping the end off your mic audio too soon. It might seem like I'm being overly critical, but I'm merely sharing my feedback, I'm not trying to hurt or insult. Good video as a whole, though.

Canadian cities have low population but somehow behaves twice of their sizes like for example, Calgary Alberta only has 1.5 million in it’s metro but acts like Denver Colorado with almost 3 millions habitants.

I dont think anyone is surprised by Edmonton or ottawa since theyre major Canadian cities. Id say any city without a pro sports team over 400k would be surprisingly large.