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.
#59 Strathcona made me blink. Never heard of that at all.
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
#11 Brampton.
Up until about a year ago, it would have been #6 Mississauga, but my company expanded into the Toronto area.
Another vote for Brampton. And I live only about a hundred miles away.
#14 Laval
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? 
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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.
#11, Brampton ON.
I need to read more about Canadian geography, for sure.
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?
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.
What’s “Canada”?
Real answer - Mississauga
Sunspace, I like the “anti-Laval” comment… if you only knew how true it is!