# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/61 "2010-03-04T18:21:49Z")
There are two in the top ten I’ve never heard of - Mississauga and Hamilton. :eek: ETA: and six more in the second ten. We need a shame smily. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/62 "2010-03-04T19:07:24Z")
#59 Strathcona made me blink. Never heard of that at all. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/63 "2010-03-04T19:09:22Z")
Several in the top 20 that don’t even ring a bell for me: #19 - Longueuil #18 - Vaughan #17 - Gatineau # 16 - Markham #14 - Laval #6 Mississauga ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/64 "2010-03-04T19:18:23Z")
#11 Brampton. Up until about a year ago, it would have been #6 Mississauga, but my company expanded into the Toronto area. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/65 "2010-03-04T19:43:14Z")
Another vote for Brampton. And I live only about a hundred miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/66 "2010-03-04T19:59:16Z")
#14 Laval ---
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/67 "2010-03-04T20:29:41Z")
Okay, let’s summarize a few things. [ul][li]Laval is the Mississauga of Montreal.[/li][li]Gatineau is the amalgamated municipality that includes the former city known as Hull, and is across the river from Ottawa. Therefore, it is the Clarington of Ottawa.[/li][li]Longueuil is on the South Shore of the St Lawrence, across from Montréal. Therefore, it is the anti-Laval of Montréal.[/li][li]Markham is the Laval of North Toronto.[/li][li]Vaughan is the Mississauga of Markham.[/li][li]Lévis is the Longueuil of Quebec City.[/li][li]Strathcona is the Brampton of Edmonton.[/li][\*]Apparently I can’t spell Longueuil.[/ul]Clear? 🙂 ---
**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 5, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/68 "2010-03-05T07:55:09Z")
[quote=“Sunspace, post:67, topic:531184”] Okay, let’s summarize a few things. [list][li]Laval is the Mississauga of Montreal.[/li][li]Longueuil is on the South Shore of the St Lawrence, across from Montréal. Therefore, it is the anti-Laval of Montréal.[/li][/QUOTE] A recent ad campaign by the City of Montreal said, “Live on the North Shore? Yes, but the north shore of Longueuil” and “Live on the South Shore? Yes, but the south shore of Laval”. Don’t ask me why we call it the South Shore when what it really is, is the south bank. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/69 "2010-03-05T14:28:28Z")
#11, Brampton ON. I need to read more about Canadian geography, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/70 "2010-03-05T14:51:49Z")
Never heard of #18 - Vaughan. Also #28 - Richmond Hill. These are “Toronto” to me. That’s what happens when you start calling everything the “GTA” - nobody knows or cares about all the cities that were engulfed by the Toronto Blob. I know several of the smaller ones, though… does that count for anything? ---
**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 5, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/71 "2010-03-05T16:12:23Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > #11, Brampton ON. > > I need to read more about Canadian geography, for sure. As others have pointed out, it’s a suburb of Toronto. It’s a little like never having heard of, say, Long Beach, California, whose population is comparable. Like **Antigen** says, I bet you’ve heard of a lot of the smaller cities, just because they’re their own cities, rather than being suburbs. BTW, the Toronto suburbs and exurbs are some of the fastest-growing municipalities in Canada. Some of the federal electoral districts in those areas are staggeringly overpopulated (i.e. compared to other federal ridings) because the population has just grown so much since the last redistricting in 2003. The same is true of the Montreal exurbs, where ridings like Montcalm are overpopulated. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/72 "2010-03-05T16:17:18Z")
What’s “Canada”? Real answer - Mississauga ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184/73 "2010-03-05T16:19:24Z")
Sunspace, I like the “anti-Laval” comment… if you only knew how true it is! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-it-a-trifecta-the-largest-canadian-city-youve-never-heard-of/531184.md?page=3)