Cities and Towns of Canada by emilyaviva

Champion(s):

MoyseyC


Runner(s)-Up:

RichmondJ


Quiz Description

Beyond Vancouver and Toronto.

Full Results:

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2 RichmondJ 544 93 15
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5 GrahamJ 446 79 15
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7 LakeMA 347 70 15
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10 MRideout 289 56 15
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Questions:

Situated halfway between Edmonton and Calgary, what third-most populous city in Alberta is home to both the Rebels of the Western Hockey League and the Canadian Finals Rodeo?

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Red Deer

What Nunavut town—the Canadian Arctic's sole inland settlement, 320 km from the Hudson Bay—is the closest populated place to the geographical center of Canada?

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Baker Lake

At over 40% Franco-Ontarian, what northern city is known as "La ville du nickel", being a world leader in the production of that element?

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Sudbury

What town at the southern tip of Nova Scotia was once a major centre of shipbuilding, and is now not only the terminus of a ferry from Bar Harbor, Maine, but also a playable location in Assassin's Creed Rogue?

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Yarmouth

What suburb of Montréal occupies an island in the St. Lawrence River known as Île Jésus, and is separated from Montréal by the Rivière des Prairies?

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Laval

Despite being older and more centrally located, what Anglophone municipality was forcibly amalgamated into the Francophone city of Gatineau and now forms its central business district, just across the Ottawa River from the national capital?

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Hull

What city, about an hour and a half up the Trans-Canada highway from Victoria, is the centre of the second-most populous metropolitan area on Vancouver Island, but is known throughout Canada for having given its name to a chocolate, coconut, and custard confection?

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Nanaimo

What Yukon town was the focal point of the Klondike Gold Rush, transforming from a small First Nations camp into a city of 40,000 people in just two years? Its population now stands at just over 1,000, but it still ranks as the Yukon's second-largest city.

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Dawson City

What town on Baffin Island has an airport with the code YFB, a holdover from its former name, Frobisher Bay? The airport is a frequent diversionary airport on polar routes due to its capacity and long runway, where many aircraft, notably the Airbus A380, performed cold-weather testing?

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Iqaluit

What city along the St. John River in New Brunswick was named by British loyalists fleeing the United States after the American War of Independence after King George III's second son, the Duke of York (the same one who had ten thousand men whom he made to march up and down a hill, in a nursery rhyme)?

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Fredericton

Whale-watching and storm-watching are two of its major tourist draws, but what western Vancouver Island town is best known as the unofficial surfing capital of Canada?

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Tofino

What Saskatchewan city derives its odd name from a mishearing of the Cree "moscâstani-sîpiy", meaning "warm place by the river"?

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Moose Jaw

What northern British Columbia city is the seat the Peace River Regional District and the terminus of the Alaska Highway, and has nothing to do with a late ’90s teen drama set in Massachusetts? (Note: name the city, not the TV show.)

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Dawson Creek

An amalgamated city known simply in the local Inuit language as "Vâli" but in English by a four-word name, with a dash in the middle separating the two parts. Give EITHER of the two parts of the name of this largest city in Labrador, home to a major Canadian Forces air base.

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Happy Valley – Goose Bay

What city on the shores of Lake Ontario is best known as the headquarters of General Motors Canada?

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Oshawa

Situated halfway between Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., on the Sea-to-Sky Highway is what town, named after its indigenous Coast Salish people, and home to the Stawamus Chief, an imposing granite massif popular with rock climbers?

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Squamish