List of Planned Cities - Canada

Canada

Planned cities of Eastern Canada are notable. In Western Canada, however, virtually all cities and towns created after the 1870 Dominion Lands Act (the majority of all such cities) were planned. Most were railway towns, surveyed and subdivided by the powerful railway companies. For example, both Medicine Hat, Alberta; and Swift Current, Saskatchewan, were founded by the Canadian Pacific Railway during construction of Canada's main transcontinental line. The only cities in Western Canada that grew organically were those – usually founded before 1870 – that grew up around fur-trade forts, police outposts or Christian missions.

  • Batawa, Ontario
  • Bramalea, Ontario – now a part of Brampton
  • Broughton, Nova Scotia – failed
  • Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Deep River, Ontario
  • Don Mills, Ontario – now a part of Toronto
  • Erin Mills – a planned community of Mississauga, Ontario
  • Fermont, Quebec
  • Gagnon, Quebec
  • Guelph, Ontario
  • Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Kapuskasing, Ontario
  • Kitimat, British Columbia
  • Mount Royal, Quebec
  • New Westminster, British Columbia – designed by Richard Moody of the Royal Engineers to be the capital of the Colony of British Columbia
  • Oromocto, New Brunswick
  • Pinawa, Manitoba
  • Thompson, Manitoba
  • Townsend, Ontario – failed
  • Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia
  • Vaughan, Ontario

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