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___MASK55___ is the capital city of Canada . It stands on the south bank of the ___MASK55___ River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario . ___MASK55___ borders ___MASK48___ , ___MASK78___ ; the two form the core of the ___MASK55___  ___MASK48___ census metropolitan area ( CMA ) and the National Capital Region ( NCR ). The 2011 census reported a population of 883 , 391 , making it the fourth - largest city in Canada ; and 1 , 236 , 324 within the CMA , making it the fourth - largest CMA in Canada . The City of ___MASK55___ reported that the city had an estimated population of 960 , 754 as of December 2015 . Queensville is a village within the Town ___MASK10___ ___MASK57___ , Ontario , Canada . Among the private homes , the village proper contains the Queensville Cemetery , a post office , a United Church ___MASK10___ Canada , and a complex containing a fire hall , a community centre , a public park with softball diamond , tennis courts and playground . Guy Paul Morin and Christine Jessop were neighbours in Queensville in 1984 , and John Candy once owned a home approximately 1 km south ___MASK10___ Queensville . At one time , there were plans to build Ontario ' s first private university in Queensville . The site for the proposed university would have been east ___MASK10___ Leslie on the north side ___MASK10___ Queensville side ___MASK19___ . It was expected that the university would occupy 65 acres ( 0 . 102 sq mi ; 0 . 26 km2 ) and employ 1 , 000 people . Queensville is home to the largest Antique Mall in York Region . The ___MASK23___ Holland River is a river in Ontario , Canada that is part of the Holland River watershed that empties into Cook ' s Bay in Lake ___MASK86___ . The headwaters of the ___MASK23___ Holland River rise in the Oak Ridges Moraine . The river runs generally north from the town of Newmarket , and through Holland Landing where it joins up with the West Holland River . ___MASK21___ ( short for " Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco ") is a ___MASK70___ political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity . ___MASK74___ is the ___MASK75___ populous city in Canada , the provincial capital of Ontario , and the centre of the Greater ___MASK74___ Area , the ___MASK75___ populous metropolitan area in Canada . Growing in population , the 2011 census recorded a population of 2 , 615 , 060 . As of 2015 , the population is now estimated at 2 , 826 , 498 , making ___MASK74___ the fourth - largest city in North America based on the population within its city limits . ___MASK74___ trails only ___MASK31___ City , ___MASK77___ City , and Los Angeles by this measure , while it is the fifth - largest ( behind also Chicago ) if ranked by the size of its metropolitan area . An established global city , ___MASK74___ is an international centre of business , finance , arts , and culture , and widely recognized as one of the ___MASK75___ multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world . ___MASK16___ officially ___MASK69___ in both Canadian English and French , is the ___MASK75___ populous municipality in ___MASK78___ and the 2nd - ___MASK75___ populous in Canada . Originally called " Ville - Marie ", or " City of Mary ," it is named after Mount Royal , the triple - peaked hill in the heart of the city . The city is on the Island of ___MASK16___ , which took its name from the same source as the city , and a few much smaller peripheral islands , the largest of which is Île Bizard . It has a distinct four - season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters . ___MASK78___ City ( pronounced or ) officially Québec ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of ___MASK78___ . In 2015 the city had a population estimate of 545 , 485 , and the metropolitan area had a population of 806 , 400 , making it Canada ' s seventh - largest metropolitan area and ___MASK78___ ' s second - largest city after Montreal , which is about to the southwest . ___MASK63___ ' s geography is divided into administrative divisions known as provinces and territories that are responsible for delivery ___MASK10___ sub - national governance . When ___MASK63___ was formed in 1867 , three provinces ___MASK10___ British North America  ___MASK59___ , Nova Scotia and the Province ___MASK10___ ___MASK63___ ( which , on the formation ___MASK10___ ___MASK63___ , was divided into Ontario and ___MASK78___ )  were united to form a federated colony , which eventually became a sovereign nation in the next century . Over its history , ___MASK63___ ' s international borders have changed several times , and the country has grown from the original four provinces to the current ten provinces and three territories . The ten provinces are Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , ___MASK59___ , Newfoundland and Labrador , Nova Scotia , Ontario , Prince Edward Island , ___MASK78___ , and Saskatchewan . Several ___MASK10___ the provinces were former British colonies , ___MASK78___ was originally a French colony , while others were added as ___MASK63___ grew . The three territories are Northwest Territories , Nunavut , and Yukon , which govern the rest ___MASK10___ the area ___MASK10___ the former British North America . Together , the provinces and territories make up the world ' s second - largest country by area . The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major ___MASK8___ range in western North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part ___MASK10___ British ___MASK18___ , in western Canada , to New ___MASK31___ , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west . The Greater ___MASK74___ Area ( GTA ) is the ___MASK75___ populous metropolitan area in Canada . At the 2011 census , it had a population of 6 , 054 , 191 , and the census metropolitan area had a population of 5 , 583 , 064 . The Greater ___MASK74___ Area is defined as the ___MASK9___ of ___MASK74___ , and the four regional municipalities that surround it : ___MASK4___ , Halton , Peel , and York . The regional span of the Greater ___MASK74___ Area is sometimes combined with the city of Hamilton , Ontario and its surrounding region , to form the Greater ___MASK74___ and Hamilton Area . The Greater ___MASK74___ Area is the northern part of the Golden Horseshoe . ___MASK63___ ( French : ) is a country in the ___MASK90___ half of North America . Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering , making it the world ' s second - largest country by total area and the fourth - largest country by land area . ___MASK63___ ' s border with the United States is the world ' s longest land border . The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . ___MASK63___ is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the country ' s population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border . Its capital is ___MASK55___ , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , ___MASK93___ , Edmonton , ___MASK78___ City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . ___MASK37___ ( from Inuktitut :  ) is the newest , largest , northernmost , and least populous territory of Canada . It was separated officially from the ___MASK32___ Territories on April 1 , 1999 , via the ___MASK37___ Act and the ___MASK37___ Land Claims Agreement Act , though the boundaries had been contemplatively drawn in 1993 . The creation of ___MASK37___ resulted in the first major change to Canada ' s political map since the incorporation of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949 . ___MASK80___ , one ___MASK10___ the 13 provinces and territories ___MASK10___ Canada , is located in ___MASK23___ - central Canada . It is Canada ' s ___MASK75___ populous province by a large margin , accounting for nearly 40 percent ___MASK10___ all Canadians , and is the second - largest province in total area . ___MASK80___ is fourth - largest in total area when the territories ___MASK10___ the ___MASK32___ Territories and Nunavut are included . It is home to the nation ' s capital city , Ottawa , and the nation ' s ___MASK75___ populous city , Toronto . The ___MASK32___ Territories ( also known as NWT ; French : " les Territoires du Nord - Ouest ", " TNO "; Athabaskan languages : " Denendeh "; Inuinnaqtun : " Nunatsiaq "; Inuktitut :  ) is a territory of Canada . At a land area of approximately and a 2011 population of 41 , 462 , it is the second largest and most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada . Its estimated population as of 2016 is 44 , 291 . Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967 , following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission . In physical geography , tundra is a type ___MASK10___ biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons . The term " tundra " comes through Russian  (" tûndra ") from the Kildin Sami word " tndâr " " uplands ", " treeless mountain tract ". There are three types ___MASK10___ tundra : Arctic tundra , ___MASK82___ tundra , and Antarctic tundra . In tundra , the vegetation is composed ___MASK10___ dwarf shrubs , sedges and grasses , mosses , and lichens . Scattered trees grow in some tundra regions . The ecotone ( or ecological boundary region ) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree line or timberline . ___MASK5___ is the capital and largest city of the province of ___MASK97___ in Canada . It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America , at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers . ___MASK57___ is a town on the East Holland River in the ___MASK99___ . It is part ___MASK10___ the Greater Toronto Area ___MASK10___ southern Ontario , in Canada . It was formed by the amalgamation ___MASK10___ the Township ___MASK10___ ___MASK57___ with all the previously incorporated villages and hamlets within the township . The main centres in ___MASK57___ are the villages ___MASK10___ Holland Landing , Queensville , Sharon , and Mount Albert . The Civic Centre ( municipal offices ) are located along Leslie Street in Sharon . The northernmost interchange ___MASK10___ Highway 404 is at the North edge ___MASK10___ ___MASK57___ , just south ___MASK10___ Ravenshoe Road . The hamlets ___MASK10___ Holt and Brown Hill are also within town limits . The ___MASK99___ , also called York Region , is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario , Canada , between Lake Simcoe and Toronto . It replaced the former York County in 1971 , and is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner ring of the Golden Horseshoe . The regional government is headquartered in Newmarket . ___MASK47___ is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta . ___MASK47___ is on the North ___MASK64___ River and is the centre of the ___MASK47___ ___MASK25___ , which is surrounded by Alberta ' s central region . ___MASK22___ , officially the City of ___MASK22___ , is a coastal seaport city on the ___MASK2___ of British Columbia , Canada , and the most populous city in the province . ___MASK93___ is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta . It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province , in an area of foothills and prairie , about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies . In the 2011 census , the City of ___MASK93___ had a population of 1 , 096 , 833 and a metropolitan population of 1 , 214 , 839 , making it the largest city in Alberta , and the third - largest municipality and fifth - largest census metropolitan area ( CMA ) in Canada .