Editing List of cities in Canada (section)

== Ontario ==
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[[Ontario]] has 52 cities. In Ontario, city status is conferred by the provincial government, generally upon the request of the incorporated municipality. A municipality may apply for city status anytime after its population surpasses 10,000. This status is not ''automatically'' conferred on a community that reaches this population target, but must be requested by the municipality and granted by the provincial [[Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario)|Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing]]. Not all municipalities which reach this population target have pursued city designation. For example, [[Ajax, Ontario|Ajax]], [[Oakville, Ontario|Oakville]], and [[Whitby, Ontario|Whitby]], which all had populations greater than 100,000 in 2011, are still designated as towns.<ref name="2011StatCanON">{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=51&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=35&CMA=0 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Ontario) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=May 28, 2012 | accessdate=January 3, 2013}}</ref> Once designated a city, however, a municipality does not lose this status even if its population later falls back below 10,000 (as, for example, [[Dryden, Ontario|Dryden]]). Ontario's newest city is [[Richmond Hill, Ontario|Richmond Hill]], which changed from town to city status on March 25, 2019.<ref name="Wang">{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/9241744-richmond-hill-changes-status-from-town-to-city/|title=Richmond Hill changes status from town to city|last=Wang|first=sheila|newspaper=Richmond Hill Liberal|date=26 March 2019|access-date=13 April 2019}}</ref>

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