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Provinces and territories of Canada
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"O Canada we stand on guard for thee" Stained Glass, Yeo Hall, Royal Military College of Canada features arms of the Canadian provinces and territories (1965)
The provinces and territories of Canada are the administrative divisions that are responsible for the delivery of sub-national governance within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada (which, upon Confederation, was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—were united to form a federated colony, which eventually became a sovereign nation in the next century. Over its history, Canada'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, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. Several of the provinces were former British colonies, and Quebec was originally a French colony, while others were added as Canada grew. The three territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon, which govern the rest of the area of the former British North America. Together, the provinces and territories make up the world's second-largest country by area.
The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly called the British North America Act, 1867), whereas territorial governments have powers delegated to them by the Parliament of Canada. The powers flowing from the Constitution Act are divided between the Government of Canada (the federal government) and the provincial governments to exercise exclusively. A change to the division of powers between the federal government and the provinces requires a constitutional amendment, whereas a similar change affecting the territories can be performed unilaterally by the Parliament of Canada or government.
In modern Canadian constitutional theory, the provinces are considered to be sovereign within certain areas based on the divisions of responsibility between the provincial and federal government within the Constitution Act 1867, and each province thus has its own representative of the Canadian "Crown", the lieutenant governor. The territories are not sovereign, but instead their authorities and responsibilities come directly from the federal level, and as a result have a commissioner instead of a lieutenant governor.
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1 Map
2 Provinces
2.1 Provincial legislature buildings
3 Territories
3.1 Territorial legislature buildings
4 Territorial evolution
5 Government
6 Provincial political parties
7 Ceremonial territory
8 Proposed provinces and territories
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Map[edit]
Clickable map of Canada exhibiting its ten provinces and three territories, and their capitals

Provinces[edit]
Flag
Shield
Province
Postal
abbreviation
Capital[1]
Largest city
(by population)[2]
Entered
Confederation[3]
Population
(May 10, 2016)[4]
Area: land
(km2)[5]
Area: water
(km2)[5]
Area: total
(km2)[5]
Official
language(s)[6]
Federal Parliament:
Commons seats[7]
Federal Parliament:
Senate seats[7]
Ontario
ON Toronto Toronto 000000001867-07-01-0000July 1, 1867 13,448,494 917,741 158,654 1,076,395 English[a] 121 24
Quebec
QC Quebec City Montreal 000000001867-07-01-0000July 1, 1867 8,164,361 1,356,128 185,928 1,542,056 French[b] 78 24
Nova Scotia
NS Halifax Halifax[c] 000000001867-07-01-0000July 1, 1867 923,598 53,338 1,946 55,284 English[d] 11 10
New Brunswick
NB Fredericton Moncton 000000001867-07-01-0000July 1, 1867 747,101 71,450 1,458 72,908 English and French[e] 10 10
Manitoba
MB Winnipeg Winnipeg 000000001870-07-15-0000July 15, 1870 1,278,365 553,556 94,241 647,797 English[a][f] 14 6
British Columbia
BC Victoria Vancouver 000000001871-07-20-0000July 20, 1871 4,648,055 925,186 19,549 944,735 English[a] 42 6
Prince Edward Island
PE Charlottetown Charlottetown 000000001873-07-01-0000July 1, 1873 142,907 5,660 0 5,660 English[a] 4 4
Saskatchewan
SK Regina Saskatoon 000000001905-09-01-0000September 1, 1905 1,098,352 591,670 59,366 651,036 English[a] 14 6
Alberta
AB Edmonton Calgary 000000001905-09-01-0000September 1, 1905 4,067,175 642,317 19,531 661,848 English[a] 34 6
Newfoundland and Labrador
NL St. John's St. John's 000000001949-03-31-0000March 31, 1949 519,716 373,872 31,340 405,212 English[a] 7 6
Total
7007350381240000000♠35,038,124
7006549091800000000♠5,490,918
7005572013000000000♠572,013
7006606293100000000♠6,062,931
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7002335000000000000♠335
7002102000000000000♠102
Notes:
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g De facto; French has limited constitutional status.
Jump up ^ Charter of the French Language; English has limited constitutional status.
Jump up ^ Nova Scotia dissolved cities in 1996 in favour of regional municipalities; its largest regional municipality is therefore substituted.
Jump up ^ Nova Scotia has very few bilingual statutes (three in English and French; one in English and Polish); some Government bodies have legislated names in both English and French.
Jump up ^ Section Sixteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Jump up ^ Manitoba Act.
Provincial legislature buildings[edit]
British Columbia Parliament Buildings
Alberta Legislative Building
Saskatchewan Legislative Building
Manitoba Legislative Building
Ontario Legislative Building
Parliament Building (Quebec)
Confederation Building (Newfoundland and Labrador)
New Brunswick Legislative Building
Province House (Nova Scotia)
Province House (Prince Edward Island)
Territories[edit]
There are three territories in Canada. Unlike the provinces, the territories of Canada have no inherent sovereignty and have only those powers delegated to them by the federal government.[8][9][10] They include all of mainland Canada north of latitude 60° north and west of Hudson Bay, as well as most islands north of the Canadian mainland (from those in James Bay to the Canadian Arctic islands). The following table lists the territories in order of precedence (each province has precedence over all the territories, regardless of the date each territory was created).
Territories of Canada
Flag
Arms
Territory
Postal
abbreviation
Capital and largest city[1]
Entered Confederation[3]
Population
(May 10, 2016)[4]
Area: land (km2)[5]
Area: water (km2)[5]
Area: total (km2)[5]
Official languages
Federal Parliament: Commons seats[7]
Federal Parliament: Senate seats[7]
Northwest Territories
NT Yellowknife 000000001870-07-15-0000July 15, 1870 41,786 1,183,085 163,021 1,346,106 Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey, Tłįchǫ[11] 1 1
Yukon
YT Whitehorse 000000001898-06-13-0000June 13, 1898 35,874 474,391 8,052 482,443 English, French[12] 1 1
Nunavut
NU Iqaluit 000000001999-04-01-0000April 1, 1999 35,944 1,936,113 157,077 2,093,190 Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut,
English, French[13] 1 1
Total territories
7005119100000000000♠119,100
7006359358900000000♠3,593,589
7005328150000000000♠328,150
7006392173900000000♠3,921,739
—
7000300000000000000♠3
7000300000000000000♠3
Territorial legislature buildings[edit]
Yukon Legislative Building
Northwest Territories Legislative Building
Legislative Building of Nunavut
Territorial evolution[edit]
Main article: Territorial evolution of Canada
See also: Former colonies and territories in Canada
Canada timeline: Evolution of the borders and the names of Canada's Provinces and Territories
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were the original provinces, formed when several British North American colonies federated on July 1, 1867, into the Dominion of Canada and by stages began accruing the indicia of sovereignty from the United Kingdom.[14] Prior to this, Ontario and Quebec were united as the Province of Canada. Over the following years, Manitoba (1870), British Columbia (1871), and Prince Edward Island (1873) were added as provinces.[14]
The British Crown had claimed two large areas north-west of the Canadian colony, known as Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory and assigned them to the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1870, the company relinquished its claims for £300,000 ($1.5 million), assigning the vast territory to the Government of Canada.[15] Subsequently, the area was re-organized into the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.[15] The Northwest Territories were vast at first, encompassing all of current northern and western Canada, except for the British holdings in the Arctic islands and the Colony of British Columbia; the Territories also included the northern two-thirds of Ontario and Quebec, and almost all of present Manitoba, with the 1870 province of Manitoba originally being confined to a small area in the south of today's province.[16] The British claims to the Arctic islands were transferred to Canada in 1880, adding to the size of the Northwest Territories. The year of 1898 saw the Yukon Territory, later renamed simply as Yukon, carved from the parts of the Northwest Territories surrounding the Klondike gold fields. On September 1, 1905, a portion of the Northwest Territories south of the 60th parallel north became the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.[16] In 1912, the boundaries of Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba were expanded northward: Manitoba's to the 60° parallel, Ontario's to Hudson Bay and Quebec's to encompass the District of Ungava.[17]
1905 Provinces and territories of Canada coat of arms postcard
In 1869, the people of Newfoundland voted to remain a British colony over fears that taxes would increase with Confederation, and that the economic policy of the Canadian government would favour mainland industries.[18] In 1907, Newfoundland acquired dominion status.[19] In the middle of the Great Depression in Canada with Newfoundland facing a prolonged period of economic crisis, the legislature turned over political control to the Commission of Government in 1933.[20] Following Canada's participation in World War II, in a 1948 referendum, a narrow majority of Newfoundland citizens voted to join the Confederation, and on March 31, 1949, Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province.[21] In 2001, it was officially renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.[22]
In 1903, the Alaska Panhandle Dispute fixed British Columbia's northwestern boundary.[23] This was one of only two provinces in Canadian history to have its size reduced. The second reduction, in 1927, occurred when a boundary dispute between Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland saw Labrador increased at Quebec's expense – this land returned to Canada, as part of the province of Newfoundland, in 1949.[24] In 1999, Nunavut was created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories.[25] Yukon lies in the western portion of The North, while Nunavut is in the east.[26]
All three territories combined are the most sparsely populated region in Canada, covering 3,921,739 km2 (1,514,192 sq mi) in land area.[5] They are often referred to as a single region, The North, for organisational and economic purposes.[27] For much of the Northwest Territories' early history it was divided into several districts for ease of administration.[28] The District of Keewatin was created as a separate territory from 1876 to 1905, after which, as the Keewatin Region, it became an administrative district of the Northwest Territories.[29] In 1999, it was dissolved when it became part of Nunavut.
Government[edit]
Main article: Canadian federalism
See also: Monarchy in the Canadian provinces, Office-holders of Canada, and Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories
Theoretically, provinces have a great deal of power relative to the federal government, with jurisdiction over many public goods such as health care, education, welfare, and intra-provincial transportation.[30] They receive "transfer payments" from the federal government to pay for these, as well as exacting their own taxes.[31] In practice, however, the federal government can use these transfer payments to influence these provincial areas. For instance, in order to receive healthcare funding under Medicare, provinces must agree to meet certain federal mandates, such as universal access to required medical treatment.[31]
Provincial and territorial legislatures have no second chamber like the Canadian Senate. Originally, most provinces did have such bodies, known as legislative councils, with members titled councillors. These upper houses were abolished one by one, Quebec's being the last in 1968.[32] In most provinces, the single house of the legislature is known as the Legislative Assembly; the exceptions are Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, where the chamber is called the House of Assembly, and Quebec where it is called the National Assembly.[33] Ontario has a Legislative Assembly but its members are called Members of the Provincial Parliament or MPPs.[34] The legislative assemblies use a procedure similar to that of the Canadian House of Commons. The head of government of each province, called the premier, is generally the head of the party with the most seats.[35] This is also the case in Yukon, but the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have no political parties at the territorial level.[36] The Queen's representative to each province is the Lieutenant Governor.[37] In each of the territories there is an analogous Commissioner, but he or she represents the federal government rather than the monarch.[38]
Federal, Provincial, and Territorial terminology compared
Jurisdiction
Legislature
Lower house
Members of lower house
Head of Government
Viceroy
Canada
Parliament House of Commons Member of Parliament Prime Minister Governor General
Ontario
Legislative Assembly Member of the Provincial Parliament* Premier Lieutenant Governor
Quebec
Legislature National Assembly† Member of the National Assembly†
Nova Scotia
General Assembly House of Assembly Member of the Legislative Assembly§
New Brunswick
Legislature Legislative Assembly§
Manitoba
British Columbia
Parliament
Prince Edward Island
General Assembly
Saskatchewan
Legislature
Alberta
Newfoundland
and Labrador
General Assembly House of Assembly Member of the House of Assembly
Northwest Territories
Assembly Legislative Assembly Member of the Legislative Assembly Premier‖ Commissioner
Yukon
Legislature
Nunavut
Assembly
* Members were previously titled "Member of the Legislative Assembly".
† Quebec's lower house was previously called the "Legislative Assembly" with members titled "Member of the Legislative Assembly". The name was changed at the same time Quebec's upper house was abolished.
§ Prince Edward Island's lower house was previously called the "House of Assembly" and its members were titled "Assemblyman". After abolition of its upper house, assemblymen and councillors both sat in the renamed "Legislative Assembly". Later, this practice was abolished so that all members would be titled "Member of the Legislative Assembly".
‖ In Northwest Territories and Yukon the head of government was previously titled "Government Leader".
Provincial political parties[edit]
Most provinces have rough provincial counterparts to major federal parties. However, these provincial parties are not usually formally linked to the federal parties that share the same name.[39] For example, no provincial Conservative or Progressive Conservative Party shares an organizational link to the federal Conservative Party of Canada, and neither do provincial Green Parties to the Green Party of Canada. Provincial New Democratic Parties, on the other hand, are fully integrated with the federal New Democratic Party – meaning that provincial parties effectively operate as sections, with common membership, of the federal party. The Liberal Party of Canada shares such an organizational integration with the provincial Liberals in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Other provincial Liberal Parties are unaffiliated with their federal counterpart.[39]
Some provinces have provincial political parties with no clear federal equivalent, such as the Alberta Party, Saskatchewan Party, and Wildrose Party.
The provincial political climate of Quebec is quite different: the main split is between sovereignty, represented by the Parti Québécois and Québec solidaire, and federalism, represented primarily by the Quebec Liberal Party.[40] The Coalition Avenir Québec, meanwhile, takes an abstentionist position on the question and does not support or oppose sovereignty.
Currently, the only minority provincial/territorial government is held by the British Columbia New Democratic Party after receiving 41 out of 87 seats in the 2017 general election.
Current provincial/territorial governments (as of July 2017[update])
Province/Territory
Premier[41]
Party in government[41]
Majority
/Minority
Lieutenant Governor/
Commissioner[42]
Alberta
Rachel Notley Alberta New Democratic Party ◕ Majority Lois Mitchell
British Columbia
John Horgan British Columbia New Democratic Party ◔ Minority[note 1] Judith Guichon
Manitoba
Brian Pallister Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba ◕ Majority Janice Filmon
New Brunswick
Brian Gallant New Brunswick Liberal Association ◕ Majority Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau
Newfoundland and Labrador
Dwight Ball Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador ◕ Majority Frank Fagan
Nova Scotia
Stephen McNeil Nova Scotia Liberal Party ◕ Majority John James Grant
Ontario
Kathleen Wynne Ontario Liberal Party ◕ Majority Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Prince Edward Island
Wade MacLauchlan Prince Edward Island Liberal Party ◕ Majority Frank Lewis
Quebec
Philippe Couillard Quebec Liberal Party ◕ Majority J. Michel Doyon
Saskatchewan
Brad Wall Saskatchewan Party ◕ Majority Vaughn Solomon Schofield
Northwest Territories
Bob McLeod Consensus government Nonpartisan Margaret Thom
Nunavut
Peter Taptuna Consensus government Nonpartisan Nellie Kusugak
Yukon
Sandy Silver Yukon Liberal Party ◕ Majority Doug Phillips
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Ceremonial territory[edit]
Canadian National Vimy Memorial – For First World War Canadian dead and First World War Canadian missing, presumed dead in France.
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, and the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, near Beaumont-Hamel, France are ceremonially considered Canadian territory.[43] In 1922, the French government donated the land used for the Vimy Memorial "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".[44] The site of the Somme battlefield near Beaumont-Hamel site was purchased in 1921 by the people of the Dominion of Newfoundland.[43] These sites do not, however, enjoy extraterritorial status and are thus subject to French law.
Proposed provinces and territories[edit]
Main article: Proposed provinces and territories of Canada
Since Confederation in 1867, there have been several proposals for new Canadian provinces and territories. The Constitution of Canada requires an amendment for the creation of a new province[45] but the creation of a new territory requires only an act of Parliament, a legislatively simpler process.[46]
In late 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin surprised some observers by expressing his personal support for all three territories gaining provincial status "eventually". He cited their importance to the country as a whole and the ongoing need to assert sovereignty in the Arctic, particularly as global warming could make that region more open to exploitation leading to more complex international waters disputes.[47]
See also[edit]
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Manitoba portal
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Prince Edward Island portal
Saskatchewan portal
Alberta portal
Newfoundland and Labrador portal
Northwest Territories portal
Yukon portal
Nunavut portal
Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies
Canadian adjectival and demonymic forms of place names
Language policies of Canada's provinces and territories
List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States
List of regions of Canada
List of governments in Canada by annual expenditures
Commonwealth Local Government Forum-Americas
Provincial museums of Canada
List of Canada-related topics by provinces and territories
List of Canadian provinces and territories by area
List of Canadian provinces and territories by gross domestic product
List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols
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Further reading[edit]
Main article: Bibliography of Canadian provinces and territories
Brownsey, Keith; Howlett, Michael (2001). The Provincial State in Canada: Politics in the Provinces and Territories. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-55111-368-5.
Moore, Christopher; Slavin, Bill; Lunn, Janet (2002). The Big Book of Canada: Exploring the Provinces and Territories. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88776-457-8.
Pross, A. Paul; Pross, Catherine A. (1972). Government Publishing in the Canadian Provinces: a Prescriptive Study. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-1827-0.
Tomblin, Stephen (1995). Ottawa and the Outer Provinces: The Challenge of Regional Integration in Canada. James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 978-1-55028-476-8.
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