ABSTRACT
MONTREAL and Toronto are, by considerable margins, the two largest cities of Canada. Each metropolitan area contains more than one million people, and jointly they comprise 18 per cent of the Canadian population. Both are cities of great industrial and commercial importance, situated along the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes water route that has been the mainstay of the continued existence of the Canadian state. Consequently each has a hinterland that stretches eastward to the Atlantic and westward to the Rocky Mountains. To the people of the Maritimes and of the Prairie Provinces they represent the twin colossi of fmancial might.
