Regional Features
Vancouver area
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city and the most populous in western Canada. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, with 52% for who English is not their first language. Vancouver is well known as an urban center surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and Burnaby have turned Metro Vancouver into the third-largest film production center in North America after Los Angeles and New York City, earning it the film industry nickname, Hollywood North.
Toronto area (Eastern area)
Toronto is the capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. As Canada's commercial capital and one of the top financial centers in the world, Toronto is considered an alpha world city by the Globalization and World Cities study group. Quebec is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay, to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick.