| Trevor3 |
Jun 10, 2014 9:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by lake of the nations
(Post 6612671)
Things are much more complicated here. Anything over 2000 can be (but not necessarily) a ville (officially "town," but it can mean town or city) or a cité (which is a synonym of ville, but all of our cities are currently villes). Montréal and Québec city have their own status, but are also considered as villes. The other municipalities are either paroisses (parishes), cantons (townships), municipalités (municipalities), villages (villages) or cantons-unis (united townships).
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Yeah Newfoundland's system is pretty simple. If a place is incorporated, it is a town. If it is not, it is generally part of a local service district which is simply a collection of people in an unincorporated community that pay a common fee to a neighbouring municipality to avail of a service that it will provide, like fire protection or garbage collection.
To become a city, a municipality has to have the house of assembly enact a city statute for that municipality, ie: the Corner Brook Act, St. John's Act, or Mount Pearl Act, which prescribes the powers of the city, it's government structure, etc... 20,000 is accepted in common practice as the threshold to become a city, but there have been instances where government considered creating a city at a lower population (15,000). So the number isn't set in stone and could be altered for various reasons. |
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