Largest Cities in Canada 2024

There are 5 cities in Canada with a population of more than 1 million people (up from just 3 five years ago).

There are also 54 cities with a population of more than 100,000, and 100 cities with a population of more than 50,000 people. 

In this article you will find a quick reference to the 10 largest cities in Canada, details of the smallest city in Canada. And, at the end of the article, we have included a more detailed table listing the 100 largest cities in Canada.

Top 10 largest cities in Canada

The table below lists the ten largest cities in Canada in a different format, so that they can be copied and pasted.

After Toronto (see section above for details) the next largest Canadian cities are Montreal (1,704,694), Calgary (1,239,220), Ottawa (934,243) and Edmonton (932,546).

Brampton may only be the 9th largest city in Canada, but it is the fastest growing among the top 36 Canadian cities.

Kelowna, ranked 37th is the next largest city that is growing faster than Brampton in 2021, growing at a rate of 13.5% between the 2016 and 2021 censuses.

What is the smallest city in Canada?

The smallest city in Canada is Greenwood, in British Columbia.

The population of Greenwood is 702 (data from 2021 census).

At its height of its mining boom in 1901, Greenwood was home to 1,359 people, but this fell to just 171 in 1931, once the good times were over.

The number of people living in Greenwood today varies quite a bit from census to census, and has been bouncing between around around 600 and 900 since the 1950s.

100 largest cities in Canada

The table below is a full list of the 100 largest cities in Canada, sorted by population.

All data in this article is from the 2021 census.