What is the largest city in Canada by population?

The largest city in Canada by population is Toronto. In the 2021 Canadian census, the City of Toronto had 2,794,356 residents, more than any other Canadian municipality.

Toronto sits on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario and is the capital of Ontario. It is also Canada’s main financial and business centre, home to the Toronto Stock Exchange and the headquarters or major operations of many national banks and corporations.

The name can cause confusion because “Toronto” may refer to the municipal city, the Greater Toronto Area, or the Toronto census metropolitan area. The wider metropolitan region has well over six million residents, but the quiz’s city-by-population wording conventionally refers to the incorporated city itself.

Toronto’s modern boundaries were created in 1998, when the former municipality of Toronto merged with East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York. Montreal and Vancouver are major Canadian cities, but their municipal populations are smaller.