Metropolitan area populations, 1940

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Originally Posted by Wigs

amazing to compare 1941 with 2021
Canada now has:
Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton Metros at ~1.5M
Vancouver over 2.6M
Montreal over 4.2M
Toronto over 6.2M

and Winnipeg (~835k), Quebec City (~840k), and Hamilton (~785k) that will probably be over 1M in the next 15 or so years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_metropolitan_areas_and_agglomerations_in_Canada

I wouldn't be surprised to see 12 Canadian metros 1 million+ by mid-century. KW, London, and Halifax have extremely strong growth fundamentals and could represent the next wave of boom towns. A 27 year projection is rather foolhardy but it's certainly plausible to see Halifax (~490,000) get there. It likely grew by 20,000 people last year. KW snd London are slightly larger metros but grew quickly as well. I'd classify Victoria and Kelowna as budding boom towns but they would need more time to get there.