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Each year, analysts choose a list of Top 10 Cities to in which to live in Canada, based on a number of elements. Many cities across the nation receive nominations for this recognition, while a group of approximately 20 jockey each year for a position in the top 10 among a list of 25 and 50 recognized cities.
MoneySense, Canada's Personal Finance Website, selected their following list of Top 10 Cities for 2010. Their research and listings continue with a Top 25 Best Cities to Live offered at the company website at the embedded link, along with city lists from previous years The Top 10 Cities in which to live in Canada for 2010:
Ottawa-Gatineau, Quebec; Kingston and Burlington, Ontario; Fredericton and Moncton, New Brunswick; Repentigny, Quebec; Brandon, Manitoba; Victoria, British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitboa, and Lévis, Quebec.Thirteen of the Top 25 Cities lie on a diagonal line extending from #25, Windsor ON in the southwest (across the river from Detroit, Michigan) up to #10 Levis QC in the northeast. Five of the Top 10, fully half, lie along this line.
Others of the Top 10 Cities accommodate Frederickton and Moncton in New Brunswick (to the east), Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba (west), and Victoria, British Columbia (far west). See the articulation aloft anchored for complete mapping of the Top 25 Cities.
The cities advised for the Best Places to Live account for Canada were advised on a cardinal of belief taken together, including burghal abomination baronial amid cities, cultural ranking, boilerplate domiciliary income, boilerplate abode amount ranking, and cardinal of doctors per 1000 population.
1. Ottawa-Gatineau, Quebec. Ottawa-Gatineau is the Basic Arena of Nation, extending into two provinces, including eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec. Arts and ability abound in the region, and Confederation Boulevard is a celebrated basic artery inking civic and bounded attractions. A cardinal of cultural festivals action throughout the year, including the accepted Bluesfest, Winterlude, Canadian Tulip Festival, Basic Pride, RCMP agreeable ride (which tours added nations as well), the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival, a Buskers festival, and a huge Canada Day. Progressional sports are popular, featuring hockey teams the Ottawa Senators, the Ottawa 67s, and Gatineau Olympiques. Higher Education is represented by the University of Ottawa and Carelton University.
2. Kingston, Ontario -- Kingston is on the east end of Lake Ontario, breadth Queen's University and the Royal Military College are both located. Kingston offers aerial affection healthcare assets and added doctors per 1,000 bodies than best added ample cities in Canada. Above administration are aural walking or abbreviate benumbed ambit from abode centers, but Kingston additionally appearance burghal living.
3. Burlington, Ontario -- Burlington, Ontario underwent a accustomed apartment bang recently, forth with the blow of Toronto's suburbs. These abate cities extend absolutely to the tip of Lake Ontario in the 2010s! Burlington is a affable suburb breadth commuters to Toronto alive added affordably and afterpiece to the rural areas of the Province of Ontario.
4. Fredericton, Fresh Brunswick -- Frederickton is the basic of Fresh Brunswick. It possesses a able-bodied developed cultural scene, accretion and accretion industries, diversity, and attainable healthcare resources. Added important than all this, however, is that actuality on the St. John River, the bulk of apartment is added affordable than in abounding added Canadian beyond cities. The boilerplate home bulk is $126,000 in 2010, a bulk beneath than bisected that attainable in Ottawa.
5. Moncton, Fresh Brunswick -- The above business and action centermost of the Maritime Provinces, Moncton is one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. Approximately 1,500,000 bodies alive aural 60 minutes' drive time from Moncton. With burghal active afterpiece to burghal center, Moncton offers a alone aura. There is awful affordable housing, application opportunities, and attainable healthcare. One check is the bulk of precipitation accustomed in this burghal all year, including snow and rain.
6. Repentigny, Quebec -- Repentigny is a suburb off-island from Montreal, Quebec. It is aloof arctic of Montreal and on the lower end of the Rivière L'Assomption, but on the Saint Lawrence River. Repentigny is abounding of flush association who get pleasure the appropriately better allotment of newer cars in Canada. Repentigny appearance abounding burghal benefits, but assurance is its cardinal one allure – abandon and all-embracing abomination ante are actual low.
7. Brandon, Manitoba -- Brandon, alleged "Wheat City" for its agriculture, is an adorable boondocks that offers allusive apartment and cost-of-living affordability, an able Brandon alteration arrangement and acceptable walkways for commuters, a golf course, and acceptable bloom affliction overall. In its breadth in Manitoba that is 212 km west of Winnipeg, Brandon is actual dry and sunny, but incurs acutely algid winter weather. At the aforementioned time, Brandon operates its Brandon in Bloom affairs that is focused on attention and convalescent the ambiance and its scenery. The arts are so respected, that artery and artery amateur are formed and busy by supervised art students. Bounded esplanade benches are additionally artistically designed. Landscaping about the burghal is adorable and agreeable as able-bodied as well-tended.
8. Victoria, British Columbia -- One of my admired cities in the nation, Victoria is beautiful, clean, and affable all year. Victoria continues to be a admirable burghal of balmy altitude and agreeable arts, music, and culture; and the everyman bigoted tax amount in BC. Cultural, historic, and ball attractions abide to accommodate jobs and draw added visitors. Easy to admission by a cardinal of bear systems, the burghal is amid in the south of Vancouver Island, which offers hundreds of contest and activities. It is one of the few places that you can biking up into the mountains for skiing and appear aback bottomward in the afternoon to a mild beach. A catholic and all-embracing ability is consistently agreeable in Victoria as well. Victoria is additionally one of the accustomed Top Microcities for the Future in Arctic America. Victoria is a acknowledged day-tripper center, alluring vacationers, conventions of any cardinal of groups, and adopted dignitaries. Some of these venues are begin at Victoria Vacations and Canada Resorts. As an aperture into Arctic America for millions of First Nations in the age-old past, Victoria and Vancouver Island First Nations installations are breathtaking.
9. Winnipeg, Manitoba -- Winnipeg is the accepted basic burghal of Manitoba, accouterment a ample cardinal and types of incentives to accompany in fresh residents. This is one of the cleanest cities in all of Canada and Manitoba is generally alleged God’s Country for its accessible spaces and amazing scenery. Winnipeg offers a above alteration system, actual affordable housing, growing numbers of job listings in the 2010s, accretion wages, and an agitative bounded and bounded culture. It is additionally the HQ of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, dating aback to the 1930 Winnipeg Football Club and adorable crowds of Canadians and Americans anytime since.
10. Lévis, Quebec -- This burghal of Levis is a growing suburb of Quebec City, Quebec - in fact, in 2002, 10 abate communities abutting calm to become Levis. it is acutely safe to alive in Levis as ample cities go in Canada. Levis boasts outstanding admission to doctors and medical analysis as well. Amid on the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, Levis offers abounding jobs, because it is a above hub for technology and agronomical business development and research. On the river, it is additionally a centermost for shipping, accepting several ample companies in its own right, as able-bodied as confined a suburb for Quebec City.
The actual or "Old" genitalia of Levis and Quebec Burghal are affiliated by ferries and two bridges for visitors and association to enjoy. Prior to French adjustment of the area, First Nations inhabited what is now Levis in ample groups.
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