Canadian Twin Cities

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by le calmar

I don't know. I feel like almost every city on your list is far stretching the definition of twin cities. IMO they have to be connected to each other, depends of each other to be considered as such.

I've grown tempted to say Regina and Saskatoon.

[SkydivePilot]

Originally Posted by Beedok

I've grown tempted to say Regina and Saskatoon.

Lol!

During the '80s, Regina was "twinned" with Jinan, China.

[softee]

If smaller towns are included, then there are also the Tri-Towns in Northern Ontario (Cobalt-Haileybury-New Liskeard). They were partially amalgamated in 2004 to form the new City of Temiskaming Shores (Cobalt rejected the merger).

[RWin]

Vernon BC shares its city boundary with Coldstream. Not a twin city at all but it's a small city with an incorporated suburb. Even in "Vernon" you would say you're from Vernon if you live in Coldstream.

[ssiguy]

Courtenay/Comox for sure.

[TorontoDrew]

Toronto/Hamilton I suppose, until it swallows Hamilton that is.

[MolsonExport]

^Milton's growth means that eventually the entire world will fall into its gaping maw.

woot-ipedia

For old times' sake:

2016 - 127,200
2017 - 134,832
2018 - 142,921
2019 - 151,497
2020 - 160,587
2021 - 170,222
2022 - 180,435
2023 - 191,261
2024 - 202,737
2025 - 214,901
2026 - 227,795
2027 - 241,463
2028 - 255,951
2029 - 271,308
2030 - 287,586
2031 - 304,842
2032 - 323,132
2033 - 342,520
2034 - 363,071
2035 - 384,856
2036 - 407,947
2037 - 432,424
2038 - 458,369
2039 - 485,872
2040 - 515,024
2041 - 545,925
2042 - 578,681
2043 - 613,402
2044 - 650,206
2045 - 689,218
2046 - 730,572
2047 - 774,406
2048 - 820,870
2049 - 870,123
2050 - 922,330
2051 - 977,670
2052 - 1,036,330
2053 - 1,098,510
2054 - 1,164,420
2055 - 1,234,286
2056 - 1,308,343
2057 - 1,386,843
2058 - 1,470,054
2059 - 1,558,257
2060 - 1,651,753
2061 - 1,750,858
2062 - 1,855,910
2063 - 1,967,264
2064 - 2,085,300
2065 - 2,210,418
2066 - 2,343,043
2067 - 2,483,626
2068 - 2,632,643
2069 - 2,790,602
2070 - 2,958,038
2071 - 3,135,520
2072 - 3,323,652
2073 - 3,523,071
2074 - 3,734,455
2075 - 3,958,522
2076 - 4,196,034
2077 - 4,447,796
2078 - 4,714,664
2079 - 4,997,543
2080 - 5,297,396
2081 - 5,615,240
2082 - 5,952,154
2083 - 6,309,284
2084 - 6,687,841
2085 - 7,089,111
2086 - 7,514,458
2087 - 7,965,325
2088 - 8,443,245
2089 - 8,949,840
2090 - 9,486,830
2091 - 10,056,040
2092 - 10,659,402
2093 - 11,298,966
2094 - 11,976,904
2095 - 12,695,519
2096 - 13,457,250
2097 - 14,264,685
2098 - 15,120,566
2099 - 16,027,800
2100 - 16,989,468
2101 - 18,008,836
2102 - 19,089,366
2103 - 20,234,728
2104 - 21,448,812
2105 - 22,735,741
2106 - 24,099,885
2107 - 25,545,878
2108 - 27,078,631
2109 - 28,703,349
2110 - 30,425,550
2111 - 32,251,083
2112 - 34,186,148
2113 - 36,237,317
2114 - 38,411,556
2115 - 40,716,250
2116 - 43,159,225
2117 - 45,748,778
2118 - 48,493,705
2119 - 51,403,327
2120 - 54,487,527
2121 - 57,756,778
2122 - 61,222,185
2123 - 64,895,516
2124 - 68,789,247
2125 - 72,916,602
2126 - 77,291,598
2127 - 81,929,094
2128 - 86,844,840
2129 - 92,055,530
2130 - 97,578,862
2131 - 103,433,594
2132 - 109,639,609
2133 - 116,217,986
2134 - 123,191,065
2135 - 130,582,529
2136 - 138,417,481
2137 - 146,722,530
2138 - 155,525,882
2139 - 164,857,435
2140 - 174,748,881
2141 - 185,233,814
2142 - 196,347,843
2143 - 208,128,713
2144 - 220,616,436
2145 - 233,853,422
2146 - 247,884,627
2147 - 262,757,705
2148 - 278,523,167
2149 - 295,234,558
2150 - 312,948,631
2151 - 331,725,549
2152 - 351,629,082
2153 - 372,726,827
2154 - 395,090,436
2155 - 418,795,863
2156 - 443,923,614
2157 - 470,559,031
2158 - 498,792,573
2159 - 528,720,128
2160 - 560,443,335
2161 - 594,069,936
2162 - 629,714,132
2163 - 667,496,980
2164 - 707,546,798
2165 - 749,999,606
2166 - 794,999,583
2167 - 842,699,558
2168 - 893,261,531
2169 - 946,857,223
2170 - 1,003,668,657
2171 - 1,063,888,776
2172 - 1,127,722,103
2173 - 1,195,385,429
2174 - 1,267,108,555
2175 - 1,343,135,068
2176 - 1,423,723,172
2177 - 1,509,146,562
2178 - 1,599,695,356
2179 - 1,695,677,078
2180 - 1,797,417,702
2181 - 1,905,262,764
2182 - 2,019,578,530
2183 - 2,140,753,242
2184 - 2,269,198,437
2185 - 2,405,350,343
2186 - 2,549,671,364
2187 - 2,702,651,645
2188 - 2,864,810,744
2189 - 3,036,699,389
2190 - 3,218,901,352
2191 - 3,412,035,433
2192 - 3,616,757,559
2193 - 3,833,763,013
2194 - 4,063,788,794
2195 - 4,307,616,121
2196 - 4,566,073,089
2197 - 4,840,037,474
2198 - 5,130,439,723
2199 - 5,438,266,106
2200 - 5,764,562,072

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Toronto/Hamilton I suppose, until it swallows Hamilton that is.

Hamilton's growth has actually kept a decent pace with Toronto for that past century from what I can tell. It might end up being more like St. Paul - Minneapolis at some point, but those are still considered distinctive twin cities.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by le calmar

I don't know. I feel like almost every city on your list is far stretching the definition of twin cities. IMO they have to be connected to each other, depend of each other to be considered as such. Ideally be similarily sized too, but it's not always necessary. Gatineau is smaller than Ottawa, but with their downtowns so close to each other just across the river and with all the people commuting from one city to the other, I think they deserve the title of twin cities.

Ottawa and Gatineau are like the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito of twin cities.

[Pinus]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

wikipedia only lists 4 for Canada:

Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia[n 1]
Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec[n 2]
Battleford and North Battleford, Saskatchewan[n 3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_cities

and three that involce international boundaries

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Niagara Falls, New York, United States
North Portal, Saskatchewan, Canada; Portal, North Dakota, United States
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States

You mean four that invoice international boundaries, including Emerson, Manitoba, Canada; Pembina, North Dakota/St. Vincent, Minnesota, United States

[le calmar]

i can't believe nobody mentioned this famous one.

[megadude]

I was thinking of this topic while I did a long road trip last weekend. But my thougths expand beyond twin cities to sister cities, cousins and rivals. Lots of great examples here.

I think of Port Hope and Cobourg as sister towns like Elora and Fergus or Stratford and St. Mary's or Acton and Georgetown. Midland and Penetang might be twin towns. Same with Richmond Hill and Markham.

East Gwillimbury and West Gwillimbury are just towns that are a hodge podge of villages with no real downtown and no identity. West got amalgamated into Bradford West Gwillimbury and lies in Simcoe County while East remains its own municipality and is a part of York Region, which is part of the GTA.

For places like Brampton and Mississauga, while they share a border and are the two largest suburbs of them all, and are a part of Peel Region, I feel like they are more rivals than anything.

There's some obvious rival cities across the country, and there's a thread about that so I won't go too much into that.

[MonctonRad]

Dog River & Wullerton SK,

[megadude]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Dog River & Wullerton SK,

Good point.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^Milton's growth means that eventually the entire world will fall into its gaping maw.

woot-ipedia

For old times' sake:

will the miltonization of the universe unfold before the Okotokian black hole acquires enough mass to swallow everything up?

[MolsonExport]

Lllllllloydminster. Two towns, two provinces, two 'Ls'

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Lllllllloydminster. Two towns, two provinces, two 'Ls'

Two Losers, both sides suck.

[gatt]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Rouyn-Noranda
Chicoutimi-Jonquiere
Moncton-Dieppe
Halifax-Dartmouth
Sydney-Glace Bay
Kitchener-Waterloo (and Cambridge)

rouyn and noranda are not cities.theres one city rouyn-noranda.i grew up there.

[dmuzika]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Lllllllloydminster. Two towns, two provinces, two 'Ls'

Lloydminster is a single city that is in two provinces.

[Marty_Mcfly]

I see that 10 years ago SHH mentioned that St. John's and Mount Pearl used to be called the twin cities locally. If you wanted to be very technical to the definition of a city, St. John's, Mount Pearl, Paradise, and Conception Bay South could be called the quad-cities as all 4 municipalities meet the definition of a city in NL.

In reality though I doubt anyone could point out anything urban about Mount Pearl, Paradise, or CBS. They're really just overgrown suburban communities with some commercial business and major traffic issues.

Halifax-Dartmouth on the other hand, both cities have their own distinct downtowns, and have enough urban aspects to really feel like twin cities, even if Halifax is carrying a lot more of that weight than Dartmouth is.