List of regions of Canada
The wist of regions of Canada is a summary of geographicaw areas on a hierarchy dat ranges from nationaw (groups of provinces and territories) at de top to wocaw regions and sub-regions of provinces at de bottom. Administrative regions dat rank bewow a province and above a municipawity are awso incwuded if dey have a comprehensive range of functions compared to de wimited functions of speciawized government agencies. Some provinces and groups of provinces are awso qwasi-administrative regions at de federaw wevew for purposes such as representation in de Senate of Canada. However regionaw municipawities (or regionaw districts in British Cowumbia) are incwuded wif wocaw municipawities in de articwe List of municipawities in Canada.
- 1 Nationaw regions
- 2 Inter-provinciaw regions
- 3 Provinciaw regions
- 3.1 Awberta
- 3.2 British Cowumbia
- 3.3 Manitoba
- 3.4 New Brunswick
- 3.5 Newfoundwand and Labrador
- 3.6 Nordwest Territories
- 3.7 Nova Scotia
- 3.8 Nunavut
- 3.9 Ontario
- 3.10 Prince Edward Iswand
- 3.11 Quebec
- 3.12 Saskatchewan
- 3.13 Yukon
- 4 See awso
- 5 References
Awdough most of dese regions have no officiaw status or defined boundaries, de Provinces and territories are sometimes informawwy grouped into regions (wisted here from west to east by province, fowwowed by de dree territories). Seats in de Senate are eqwawwy divided among four regions: Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, and de West, wif speciaw status for Newfoundwand and Labrador, and Nordern Canada ('de Norf'). These are de onwy nationaw regions dat have any officiaw status. Regionaw representation on de Supreme Court of Canada is governed more by convention dan by waw. Quebec is de onwy region wif a wegawwy guaranteed qwota of dree judges on de bench. The oder regions are usuawwy represented by dree judges from Ontario, two from Western Canada (typicawwy but not formawwy one from British Cowumbia and one from de Prairie Provinces) and one from Atwantic Canada. The dree territories do not have any separate representation on de supreme court. Statistics Canada uses de six-region modew for de Geographicaw Regions of Canada.
|Aww provinces and territories||Senate divisions||Seven-region modew||Six-region modew||Five-region modew||Four-region modew||Three-region modew|
|British Cowumbia||Western Canada (24 seats)||British Cowumbia||British Cowumbia||West Coast||Western Canada||Western Canada|
|Saskatchewan||Saskatchewan and Manitoba|
|Ontario||Ontario (24 seats)||Ontario||Ontario||Centraw Canada||Centraw Canada||Eastern Canada|
|Quebec||Quebec (24 seats)||Quebec||Quebec|
|New Brunswick||The Maritimes (24 seats)||Atwantic Canada||Atwantic||Atwantic Canada||Atwantic Canada|
|Prince Edward Iswand|
|Newfoundwand and Labrador||Newfoundwand and Labrador (6 seats)|
|Yukon||The Norf (Territories) (3 seats)||Nordern Canada||Territories||Nordern Canada||Nordern Canada||Nordern Canada|
An inter-provinciaw region incwudes more dan one province or territory but doesn't usuawwy incwude de entirety of each province or territory in de group. However, de geographic or cuwturaw features dat characterize dis type of region can sometimes wead to de rewevant provinces or territories being seen as regionaw groups wike British Cowumbia-Yukon and Awberta-Nordwest Territories.
- French Canada, centred in Quebec but has scattered popuwations in Manitoba, Ontario, and de Maritime provinces.
- Engwish Canada, sometimes known as de Rest of Canada when considering topics of wanguage. Quebec is usuawwy excwuded despite de presence of scattered Engwish speaking popuwations in de soudern part of de province.
- Inuit Nunangat, a warge region of nordern Canada popuwated mainwy by de Inuit, de majority of whom do not cwaim eider Engwish or French as deir first wanguage. It incwudes de territory of Nunavut, de Nunavik region of nordern Quebec, de NunatuKavut and Nunatsiavut regions of nordern Labrador, and de Inuviawuit Settwement Region of de Nordwest Territories and Yukon.
Primary and secondary geographic
- Canadian Arctic Archipewago, a warge group of Canadian iswands in de Arctic Ocean dat wies partwy in Nunavut, partwy in de Nordwest Territories, and one, Herschew Iswand, dat is part of Yukon, uh-hah-hah-hah. Some iswands are administrativewy spwit between Nunavut and de Nordwest Territories.
- Canadian Shiewd, a vast region centered around Hudson Bay dat incwudes parts of every province except British Cowumbia and de Maritimes, and every territory except Yukon, uh-hah-hah-hah.
- Hudson Bay Lowwand, a warge wetwand dat extends from nordern Manitoba across de far norf of Ontario into nordwestern Quebec.
- Acadia, a wargewy historicaw region dat winks parts of de Maritimes and parts of eastern Quebec.
- Quebec City–Windsor Corridor dat winks soudern Ontario wif soudern Quebec.
- Ottawa Vawwey dat winks eastern Ontario wif western Quebec.
- Pawwiser's Triangwe dat winks de main agricuwturaw regions of Awberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. It is roughwy co-terminus wif de grasswands of de Canadian Prairies.
- Cypress Hiwws dat winks de hiwwy areas of soudern Awberta wif deir counterparts in soudern Saskatchewan, uh-hah-hah-hah. The Cypress Hiwws are awso part of Pawwiser's Triangwe.
- Mackenzie River Vawwey which incwudes de Peace River Country of nordern Awberta and nordeastern British Cowumbia and de Mackenzie-Swave-Adabaska river system in de Nordwest Territories. They combine into a singwe warge vawwey region dat occupies much of de combined inter-provinciaw region, uh-hah-hah-hah. Some mountainous areas of British Cowumbia and Yukon are technicawwy part of de watershed but are not generawwy considered part of de vawwey region, uh-hah-hah-hah.
- Canadian Rockies which wink most of British Cowumbia and Yukon Territory into a singwe mountainous region, uh-hah-hah-hah.
- Nationaw Capitaw Region, a federaw administrative region dat straddwes de Ottawa River on de Ontario-Quebec border and incwudes de cities of Ottawa and Gatineau. It is awso part of de Quebec City-Windsor Corridor and de Ottawa Vawwey.
The provinces and territories are nearwy aww sub-divided into regions for a variety of officiaw and unofficiaw purposes. The geographic regions are wargewy unofficiaw and derefore somewhat open to interpretation, uh-hah-hah-hah. In some cases, de primary regions are separated by identifiabwe transition zones, particuwarwy in Awberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. The wargest provinces can be divided into a number of primary geographic regions of comparativewy warge size (e.g. soudern Ontario), and subdivided into a greater number of smawwer secondary regions (e.g. soudwestern Ontario). In geographicawwy diverse provinces, de secondary regions can be furder subdivided into numerous wocaw regions and even sub-regions. British Cowumbia has a much greater number of wocaw regions and sub-regions dan de oder provinces and territories due to its mountainous terrain where awmost every popuwated wake, sound, and river vawwey, and every popuwated cape and cwuster of smaww iswands can cwaim a distinct geographicaw identity. At de oder extreme, Prince Edward Iswand is not divided into any widewy recognized geographic regions or sub-regions because of its very smaww size and wack of warge rivers or rugged terrain, uh-hah-hah-hah. New Brunswick's smaww size renders it dividabwe into wocaw geographic regions onwy. Yukon awso has onwy wocaw scawe regions despite its warger size.
In Awberta and Quebec, severaw primary geographic regions can be identified. However, deir smawwer secondary regions are administrative or demographic and are not considered subdivisions of de warger regions because deir borders do not harmonize between tiers in eider province. In Nunavut and de Nordwest Territories, de regions are not mainwy geographic in nature, but have been officiawwy defined by deir respective governments for supra-municipaw administrative purposes. Most of dese jurisdictions are smawwer in wand area dan de primary geographic regions in oder provinces, so dey have been wisted here as eqwivawent to secondary regions.
Primary regions (geographic)
Secondary regions (qwasi-administrative or demographic)
These regions are not officiawwy considered subdivisions of de warger primary naturaw regions.
Primary, secondary, and wocaw geographic regions and subregions
Primary and secondary geographic regions
Locaw geographic regions
Newfoundwand and Labrador
Primary, secondary, and wocaw geographic regions
Administrative regions of Nordwest Territories.
Primary, secondary, and wocaw geographic regions
Primary, secondary, and wocaw geographic regions
Prince Edward Iswand
Not subdivided into geographicaw regions or sub-regions.
Primary and secondary regions (geographic)
The administrative regions are not officiawwy considered subdivisions of de geographic regions.
Primary geographic regions
Primary and wocaw geographic regions
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- Used, for exampwe, by EKOS Research powwing, Harris-Decima powwing.
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Discover Canada (PDF) | (HTML). Retrieved 9 Apriw 2018.
- "Maps of Inuit Nunaat (Inuit Regions of Canada)". Itk.ca. 2009-06-10. Archived from de originaw on 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- Fwora of de Canadian Arctic Archipewago Parnassia kotzebuei
- Fwora of de Canadian Arctic Archipewago Astragawus eucosmus
- Arctic Archipewago
- "About MCAA – Regions". Government of de Nordwest Territories – Municipaw and Community Affairs. Archived from de originaw on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2016.