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Such a sleepy little city with perhaps the most mild winters in Canada. Yet, big Edmonton has much colder winters with many times the population of Victoria.
Victoria,_British_Columbia has yet to exceed 100,000 people, colder Regina,_Saskatchewan & St._John's,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador have more people. However, Greater_Victoria might eventually rival that of Halifax,_Nova_Scotia. Perhaps someday even Quebec_City & Winnipeg, but Victoria would rather remain a provincial backwater for as long as possible. Being on an island is almost as good as having a wall, but its a salt water moat instead.
Big Toronto has been the only Canadian city to become as large as Chicago.
Perhaps someday Ottawa might get as big as Montreal, but that's quite a long ways off into the future.
Unlike Victoria, NW is part of an urban region of more than a few million people. Thus, its compelled to gradually have more infrastructure.
