Let's make it a trifecta: The Largest Canadian city you've never heard of

In My Humble Opinion
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In the spirit of this thread and this thread, what’s the largest Canadian city you’ve never heard of. Wiki list of the Top 100 is here.

For me, #79, St-Jerome, QC does not ring a bell.

2

Maple Ridge (#75). I’ve lived or spent significant time in about half of the ones in the list.

3

Brampton, #11. Never heard of it. (and I lived in Ontario for 3 months)

4

Levis, #34 (lived in Canada all my life, hmmm)

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#19, Longueuil, QC.

Also don’t recognize #34 (Levis, QC), 44 (Saanich, BC), or 50 (Delta, BC).

I stopped looking at that point…apparently I just don’t know Quebec or British Columbia…

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#6 Mississauga

On the other hand, I know every single one of the BC cities on the list.

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Vaughan #18. Have lived in BC all my life.

8

Me as well.

Born and raised in BC, now in Alberta.

9

Me neither. & I was born in Ontario.

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Brampton #11, even though I’ve been to (or driven through) 7 of the top 10, including Toronto, Mississauga and Hamilton. So I’ve been pretty close to Brampton – just didn’t know it was there.

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#14 - Laval. But I’ve spent a total of one hour in Canada in my entire life (Windsor, on a sidetrip lark while driving through Michigan), so my northern neighbor geography isn’t so sharp.

12

Me fourth for Brampton, Ontario. Obviously a city that needs an advertising budget.

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#9 Hamilton.

I fail.

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I wasn’t sure of 6, Mississauga and I definitely didn’t know there was a Surrey, 12. I’m in the UK.

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Another Brampton vote here. Though in my defense I noticed that it grew over 60% from 1996-2006, so back when I was actually learning things it was much smaller.

16

Another Brampton.

17

Yet another Brampton. Is it just a big suburb of Toronto?

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  1. Saanich - Although in all fairness it is only ~ 100,000.
19

Wow - I’m amazed people haven’t heard of Brampton. Weird.

Anyhoo - the only one I don’t know is Kawartha Lakes - I don’t even know where it would be in Ontario.

FWIW I’ve visited (or at least driven through) almost the entire list.

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#16, Markham, ON, whose existence was quite unknown to me until just this instant. And I’ve been to Canada a lot, altho not Ontario, lately.