# Let's make it a trifecta: The Largest Canadian city you've never heard of **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184 "2010-03-03T21:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/41 "2010-03-04T04:08:07Z")
#91 Wood Buffalo, Alberta. Following the wiki link, though, I _have_ heard of Fort McMurray, the major town/city that got amalgamated with the rest of the area to form Wood Buffalo. I have a classmate from Maple Ridge, which got me past #75! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/42 "2010-03-04T05:46:51Z")
Mississisaugaippi. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/43 "2010-03-04T06:47:43Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > #16, Markham, Ontario > > I’ve actually heard of a good number of the ones below it, but this one stopped me. Its north of Toronto by maybe 2 miles , iI was gonna say the other side of steeles avenue, but it could easily be the other side of highway 7. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/44 "2010-03-04T07:15:09Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Its north of Toronto by maybe 2 miles , iI was gonna say the other side of steeles avenue, but it could easily be the other side of highway 7. Yup. Markham is north of Steeles, east of Yonge. Vaughan (pronounced “Von”, by the way) is north of Steeles, west of Yonge. Centred on Yonge, a ways further up, are Richmond Hill, Aurora, and Newmarket. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/45 "2010-03-04T07:30:58Z")
[Mississauga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississauga) for me. I kinda figured it’d be the Wuhan of this thread, but maybe I’m more out of touch than the average American. Either that or it’s better known in and around the East coast or something. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/46 "2010-03-04T07:32:45Z")
Brampton was the first one I couldn’t recognize. I did know about Mississauga but only because I remember hearing jokes about it by Canadian comics and on SCTV years ago. You have to admit it is kind of a funny-sounding name. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/47 "2010-03-04T07:32:51Z")
That Wiki list is using some funny definitions of city in my opinion. For example, it lists Nanaimo (where I live) as having a bigger population than Victoria! That’s really only possible if you define “Victoria” as ten blocks surrounding the Parliament buildings. But the Victoria that I know starts at the bottom of the Malahat (in this mysterious “Saanich” place that no one has heard of) and covers the bottom of Vancouver Island from there. It’s **vast** and you can tell just by the way the roads and buildings are built. Nanaimo is vast as well but spread out like a shotgun blast. We haven’t really had to build up because we can still build out. But anyone who takes a walk through downtown Nanaimo during the day and takes a walk through downtown Victoria during the day won’t have any trouble figuring out which one belongs higher up on the list. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/48 "2010-03-04T07:45:11Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > #9 Hamilton. > > I fail. Me three. I don’t know where Mississauga is, but I’ve read news stories that mention it. And even if I knew of Hamilton, I though Surrey was in England. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/49 "2010-03-04T11:14:09Z")
Mississauga - I’ve never been to Canada ☹ ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/50 "2010-03-04T12:27:39Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > #9 Hamilton. > > I fail. I was born there! I’m not very well traveled, but I’ve heard of everywhere on that list. Dad was a trucker, and I spent 14 years dispatching for an office equipment company, so that might have something to do with it… ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/51 "2010-03-04T12:48:07Z")
Blainville - actually made me go “Quebec? Where the hell is Drummondville…ah there it is” ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/52 "2010-03-04T13:20:23Z")
I thought it was Brampton, until I remembered that I had been there. That is how boring a suburb it is. Mississauga, however, I remember due to taking a very wrong turn trying to get back to the Airport. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/53 "2010-03-04T15:26:35Z")
Vaughan again, #18. I’m from the US. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/54 "2010-03-04T15:27:09Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Mississisaugaippi. The Canadian alternaqueer band the Hidden Cameras released an album called _Mississauga Goddam_. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/55 "2010-03-04T17:38:44Z")
Brampton. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/56 "2010-03-04T17:45:28Z")
Missisauga ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/57 "2010-03-04T17:50:56Z")
11 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/58 "2010-03-04T17:52:01Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > #6 Mississauga Glad I wasn’t the first. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/59 "2010-03-04T17:55:56Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Mississauga - I’ve never been to Canada ☹ Likewise. I thought I’d do a bit better than #6, though! ---
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Another Brampton here. I’ve been to Mississauga, but never heard of Brampton. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184.md?page=4)