Source: Ian Bremmer

The map above shows an interesting feature of Canada’s population density.

Not only does almost everyone live very close to the US border (see: 50% of Canadians Live South of The Red Line), but a small area stretching from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to Quebec city holds half the country’s population.

Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the areas connected to them next to the US border contain a further quarter of the population.

And the last quarter live in the remaining 90%+ of the land mass.

The numbers today would be slight different as Canada’s population has zoomed past 41 million people, so each group would have to be over 10 million people. But if anything it’s likely to have become even more concentrated in an even smaller area.

So maybe Toronto really is the centre of the Canadian universe (only joking).

Map created by Nerdy.MapsThe map above shows where people speak English and French and Aboriginal languages in Canada.

The map is from 2016, but here’s the breakdown of the percentage of people who can speaker English, French or who can speak both (Bilingual Speakers) by province in 2021:

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Map crated by MaptitudeThis map depicts the market share of Tim Hortons versus Starbucks across Canada by census subdivision. The colour coding represents the dominance of each coffee chain in various regions:

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Map created by Lokal_Profil.Canada’s 1993 Federal election had one of the oddest results in history for any Western country.

It saw the birth of not one but two new political parties (The Bloc Québécois & Reform) which would become the 2nd and 3rd largest parties respectively in Canada’ House of Commons.

But most surprising of all, was the almost entire wipe-out of Canada’s Progressive Conservative (PC) party.

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Map created by Herman Brosius, found on Toronto Public Library website

This is a view of Ottawa from 1876, only nine years after it became the capital of what was then known as the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.

In the main diagram the viewer is looking more or less to the south, while the insert in the bottom left is a view of the parliamentary precinct looking roughly north.

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