Canada’s Regions, Provinces and Capitals

Explore five regions, ten provinces and three territories, with capital cities and real photographs.

THE BOOK, REIMAGINED

Travel through the story of Canada.

Choose a route. Follow the dates, meet the people, or explore the places behind the questions.

Parliament Hill, Ottawa · photo: Aleksandr Galenko / Unsplash

Your PDF contains older editions. Use it for historical facts, and check current officeholders and test rules against up-to-date official sources.

THE FIVE REGIONS

Coastal communities, cities and maritime connections.

Four provinces with distinct English-, French- and Indigenous-language communities.

Newfoundland and LabradorCapital: St. John’s

Prince Edward IslandCapital: Charlottetown

Nova ScotiaCapital: Halifax

New BrunswickCapital: Fredericton

Each photo shows one place, rather than the full diversity of its region.

Province / territory	Capital	Region	Joined Canada	Remember
Newfoundland and Labrador	St. John’s	Atlantic	1949	Maritime heritage, fishing and its own time zone.
Prince Edward Island	Charlottetown	Atlantic	1873	Site of a Confederation conference; Canada’s smallest province.
Nova Scotia	Halifax	Atlantic	1867	Shipbuilding, maritime trade and the Bay of Fundy tides.
New Brunswick	Fredericton	Atlantic	1867	The only officially bilingual province.
Quebec	Québec City	Central	1867	French-language culture, hydroelectricity and the St. Lawrence River.
Ontario	Toronto	Central	1867	The Great Lakes and manufacturing; home to Ottawa.
Manitoba	Winnipeg	Prairies	1870	Agriculture, hydroelectricity and French-speaking St. Boniface.
Saskatchewan	Regina	Prairies	1905	Grain, potash and the RCMP training academy in Regina.
Alberta	Edmonton	Prairies	1905	Oil and gas, cattle ranching and Banff.
British Columbia	Victoria	West Coast	1871	The Pacific Ocean, forestry and the Port of Vancouver.
Yukon	Whitehorse	North	1898	The gold rush and Canada’s highest peak, Mount Logan.
Northwest Territories	Yellowknife	North	1870	Diamonds and the Mackenzie River system.
Nunavut	Iqaluit	North	1999	Inuit culture; the name means our land.

For Yukon and Nunavut, the year refers to the creation of the territory. These lands previously belonged to other administrative areas.