Lists of municipalities in Canada
Canada has a total of 3,573 municipalities among its 10 provinces and 3 territories that are subject to some form of local government.
Matrix of municipalities
Municipal status | AB [1] | BC [2][3] | MB [2] | NB [4] | NL [2][5] | NS [6]` | ON [2] | PE [2] | QC [7] | SK [8] | Prov. total | NT [2] | NU [2] | YT [2] | Terr. total | Nat. total |
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Charter community | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
City | 18 | 51 | 10 | 8 | 3 | [a] | 51 | 2 | [b] | 16 | 159 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 162 |
Community | 63 | 63 | 63 | |||||||||||||
Community government | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||
County | [c] | 9 | 19 | 28 | 28 | |||||||||||
Cree village | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
District municipality | 50[d] | 12 | 62 | 62 | ||||||||||||
Hamlet | [e] | [f] | [g] | [h] | 11 | 24 | [i] | 35 | 35 | |||||||
Improvement district | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
Indian government district | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Inuit community government | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
Island municipality | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Local government district | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Metis settlement | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
Mountain resort municipality | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Municipal district | 64 | [j] | 64 | 64 | ||||||||||||
Municipality | [k] | [l] | 58 | 640 | 698 | 698 | ||||||||||
Naskapi village | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Northern hamlet | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Northern town | 11 | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||||
Northern village | 14 | 11 | 25 | 25 | ||||||||||||
Parish | 158 | 158 | 158 | |||||||||||||
Regional municipality | [m] | [n] | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 12 | |||||||||
Resort municipality | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Resort village | [o] | 40 | 40 | 40 | ||||||||||||
Rural community | 7 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||
Rural municipality | [p] | 98[q] | 296 | 394 | 394 | |||||||||||
Special area | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Specialized municipality | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
Summer village | 51 | [r] | 51 | 51 | ||||||||||||
Town | 108 | 14 | 25 | 26 | 268[s] | 26 | 88 | 9 | [t] | 146 | 712 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 719 | |
Township | 206 | 44 | 250 | 250 | ||||||||||||
United county | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
United township | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
Village | 89 | 42 | 2 | 65 | 11 | 44 | 260 | 513 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 516 | ||||
Ville | 223 | 223 | 223 | |||||||||||||
Total municipalities | 354 | 162 | 137 | 107 | 271 | 50 | 444 | 74 | 1,134 | 782 | 3,515 | 24 | 25 | 8 | 57 | 3,572 |
Total population[11] | 3,645,257 | 4,400,057 | 1,208,268 | 751,171 | 514,536 | 921,727 | 12,851,821 | 140,204 | 7,903,001 | 1,033,381 | 33,369,423 | 41,462 | 31,906 | 33,897 | 107,265 | 33,476,688 |
Avg. population | 10,297.3 | 27,160.8 | 8,819.5 | 7,020.3 | 1,898.7 | 18,434.5 | 28,945.5 | 1,894.6 | 6,969.1 | 1,321.5 | 9,493.4 | 1,727.6 | 1,276.2 | 4,237.1 | 1,881.8 | 9,372.0 |
Lists by province
Alberta
British ColumbiaManitoba
| New BrunswickNewfoundland and LabradorNova ScotiaOntario
| Prince Edward IslandQuebecSaskatchewan
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Lists by territory
Northwest Territories
| Nunavut
| Yukon
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See also
- List of the largest cities and towns in Canada by area
- List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population
Notes
- ^ See "regional municipality". Nova Scotia's former incorporated "city" municipal status was abandoned in the 1990s as a result of amalgamations to form regional municipalities.
- ^ See "ville". There is no official incorporated "city" municipal status in Quebec.
- ^ See "municipal district" and "specialized municipality". Alberta abolished its incorporated "county" municipal status in the mid-1990s. All were continued as municipal districts but were permitted to retain the term "county" in their official names. Two of these municipal districts, Mackenzie County and Strathcona County, subsequently changed their status from "municipal district" to "specialized municipality".
- ^ Includes the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, which is incorporated as a "district municipality" despite being named a "regional municipality".[9]
- ^ In Alberta, "hamlets" are unincorporated communities within incorporated municipalities. See list of hamlets in Alberta.
- ^ In Manitoba, "hamlets" are not incorporated communities. See Category:Hamlets in Manitoba.
- ^ In Ontario, "hamlets" are not incorporated communities. See list of hamlets in Ontario.
- ^ In Saskatchewan, "hamlets", excluding "northern hamlets", are unincorporated communities within incorporated municipalities. See list of hamlets in Saskatchewan.
- ^ In Yukon, "hamlets" are not incorporated communities. See list of hamlets in Yukon.
- ^ See "district municipality". Statistics Canada incorrectly reports that Nova Scotia's 12 district municipalities are "municipal districts".
- ^ See "specialized municipality". Though the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass and the Municipality of Jasper are named "municipalities", they are incorporated as "specialized municipalities".
- ^ See "rural municipality". Manitoba's 2015 municipal amalgamation reforms created 37 rural municipalities that branded themselves simply as "municipalities" in their official legal names
- ^ See "specialized municipality". Though the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is named a "regional municipality", it is incorporated as "specialized municipality".
- ^ See "district municipality". Though the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality is named a "regional municipality", it is incorporated as a "district municipality".[9]
- ^ See "summer village", which is the similar equivalent to Saskatchewan's "resort villages".
- ^ In Alberta "rural municipalities" are a group of municipal status types including "improvement districts", "municipal districts" and "special areas".
- ^ Statistics Canada incorrectly characterizes 37 rural municipalities as simply municipalities due to their official legal names excluding the term "rural" despite officially holding rural municipality status. Also, Statistics Canada divides the RM of Mountain into two parts.
- ^ See "resort village", which is the similar equivalent to Alberta's "summer villages".
- ^ While Statistics Canada reports that there are 277 municipalities in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), including 3 cities and 274 towns,[2] NL's Department of Municipal Affairs and the Canada Revenue Agency both report there are 271 municipalities in NL.[5][10]
- ^ See "ville". There is no official incorporated "town" municipal status in Quebec.
References
- ^ "2024 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. June 3, 2024. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Interim List of Changes to Municipal Boundaries, Status, and Names: From January 2, 2014 to January 1, 2015 (Table A: Census subdivision types by province and territory, as of January 1, 2015)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ "Order in Council No. 357". Province of British Columbia. June 26, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ "Welcome to the AMANB". The Association of Municipal Administrators of New Brunswick. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ a b "Part 3.9, Department of Municipal Affairs, Monitoring of Municipalities" (PDF). Auditor General of Newfoundland and Labrador. January 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ "Membership Directory 2016". Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities. December 1, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ "L'organisation municipale et régionale au Québec en 2013" (PDF). Ministère des Affaires Municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du Territoire. May 21, 2013. pp. 4, 5 and 8. ISBN 978-2-550-67938-7. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
- ^ "Types of Municipalities". Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ^ a b "Order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council (Order in Council No. 033)". Province of British Columbia. January 29, 2009. p. 3. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
The class of the municipality is a district municipality.
- ^ "List of municipalities – Newfoundland and Labrador". Canada Revenue Agency. May 27, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, 2011 and 2006 censuses". Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
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