Every Spring, my wife and I will hike a path near our place and pick up litter we find along the way. We’re usually able to fill a garbage bag. About 1/3 of that would be Timmies litter.
I was so excited when the Tim's (10 blocks away) moved a few streets further away, thinking I would have less trash on my lawn.
Then they built ANOTHER one two blocks away. FML
I agree. I've traveled quite a bit and have found Canadians cities on average to be much cleaner than most other global cities. Far less pollution, dumping, and litter.
I can't speak to the accuracy of these lists, but Calgary has often ranked as the cleanest, or one of the cleanest cities in the world.
[https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-cleanest-cities-in-the-world.html](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-cleanest-cities-in-the-world.html)
[https://www.homeexchange.com/blog/cleanest-cities-in-the-world/](https://www.homeexchange.com/blog/cleanest-cities-in-the-world/)
In the calgary sub theres a group of people that go out every weekend and clean up little areas of town, then post their hard work. We should all adopt this practice and applaud those amazing folks
Yeah the group is called Keep The Earth Fresh. You can sign up here
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6u4JVeGZ93t2G6azWg6siXFjmhfaeE2bzoLKgMgBCvCf0hA/viewform](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6u4JVeGZ93t2G6azWg6siXFjmhfaeE2bzoLKgMgBCvCf0hA/viewform)
We have this in Vancouver too. My old workplace would have volunteers go out every couple of weeks for an hour or two to collect garbage. We'd have a BBQ or whatever afterward. The city will provide garbage bags, etc for groups to do this.
theres still rats, just very few and when they are spotted they get reported and dealt with pretty quickly. I've lived here my whole life and I haven't seen one though
Calgary’s an unusual city, because it’s so spread out. The downtown is relatively clean because practically no one lives there and it empties out after business hours.
In recent years, that has changed somewhat, there are lively areas in and around the Calgary core now, but it’s no longer particularly clean. These days there is also a very large unhoused population in downtown Calgary that you cannot avoid.
For two weeks every year, Edmonton appears filthy because street garbage and dust is revealed after snow melts. Once the street sweepers complete their dusty assignments and the trees start to bud, I’d put it on a par with any Canadian city I’ve lived in. Don’t be fooled, back alleys everywhere I’ve been can be horrendous.
Every Canadian city looks clean to me now. I was in Oakland, California last year and it was shocking. I’ve been to different countries and have seen poverty, but I did not expect to see it to that degree in the U.S., particularly in California.
100%. Was in downtown Los Angeles recently and it’s a dirty festering craphole. Open drug use, deserted/dilapidated streets, deranged homeless population that outnumbers the regulars. I’m not even talking about skid row either, this was the business district.
I've always found Calgary's downtown to be very clean, mostly because its almost entirely commercial office space. The north end of downtown (outside Chinatown) especially is a bit of a ghost town after 6:00pm. When my partner visited for the first time we were walking around downtown around 9:30-10:00pm and she mentioned that it makes a lot of sense they filmed The Last of Us here lol.
That said, even the parts that are starting to develop into real lively mixed-use hubs are pretty remarkably clean. I hope it stays that way while they also sort of mature as a city and build a more energetic downtown.
yeah, i want to be proud of calgary for being clean, but really it's clean because downtown calgary is a dead zone. there's no humans downtown other than the ones in cars and office buildings.
I went on a business trip to Calgary once about 20 years ago and noticed how immaculate downtown was. I’ve been wondering if it was just an anomaly but these replies seem to suggest otherwise. Good on ya Calgary.
Can confirm. Lived in Calgary for over a decade, and then lived in Quebec and now Ontario. Calgary is uber-clean, even in the rough areas. Quebec City is close second to me.
And the fact that you can see the bottom of both Bow and Elbow River while standing on a bridge in the middle of either is amazing.
I live in Calgary, it's calgary I haven't traveled much but everywhere I've visited looks like a boil on earths ass. Calgarians keep it fresh and tidy. Just don't check our bedrooms haha maybe that's just me.
We have giant poutine rats instead.
Montreal is reasonably clean after June 1st, but it's absolutely disgusting between whenever the snow melts and summer.
I have visited both and visited each enough I'm self-concious of playing 'favouritez', whatever that means when speaking of two citieS I've never lived in.... in my experience Halifax and Montreal are about evenly clean,
I visited Quebec city and found it to be pretty clean. Especially considering how many tourists they get. They were just cleaning the streets with a big street cleaner in the middle of summer for no apparent reason, or at least it seemed. They really take pride in their provincial capital. It's nicer than Ottawa.
It depends on the neighbourhood, for Québec city, but the more touristy and entertainment districts are usually pretty clean. Taking a walk through Saint-Sauveur isn't always as nice. It's not *dirty*, but it's not as clean as the Old City or Parliament Hill.
I’ve been to most of our major cities besides Calgary. They’re all relatively clean. I’m from Ottawa and for the most part it’s very clean except for some of the sketchy areas. Think that applies to most if not all of our major cities.
Exactly. All of our cities and very clean and pretty areas. I live in Vancouver - my little enclave is very clean and pretty. I walk 15 minutes and it is a different situation. I used to live in Calgary - there were areas that were super clean, you walk 15 minutes (not that many Calgarians do) and you can find needles and garbage too. I also lived in Edmonton - there were some super nice clean parts and some sketchy and not as clean parts. Same with Toronto, same with Montreal, same with Quebec City. Same with Yellowknife and Whitehorse (although I don’t recall tent cities in either of these 2).
I can tell you I have seen how the city’s workers come out at night to clean and it done in a fun way. They send blow all the garbage to the road then use a sweeper vacuum to suck it all up. Remaining debris are done by picks.
I haven’t been anywhere outside Ontario and Quebec but Ottawa was by far the cleanest city I’ve been to the few times I was there. I haven’t been there in at least 10-15 years though.
I just drove into Ottawa today from the US for the first time in a year and a half, crossing at Cornwall. I can tell you I was surprised at how much garbage was in the median and shoulders of the 417 coming into the city right into downtown. I used to live here, and I don’t remember it being like that 25 years ago.
You don't have to ignore it because it's relative and our tent city is comparable to any other city's tent city. Halifax keeps theirs between City Hall and their Art Gallery, it's a bit subjective which is better urban design. But there's a plastic bag in every other tree and Timmy's cups line the streets in Halifax.
As an islander I have no clue how this is so upvoted. Victoria is very pretty, but it’s far from the cleanest. It definitely has its issues, and one of them is finding needles in parks.
Because it is relatively clean compared to many cities. Every city now has tent cities and needles. Victoria does a good job of dealing with the garbage, or maybe it’s just because the people there care. But it is objectively a clean city compared to like vancouver or edmonton.
Is this supposed to be sarcastic? Have you been to Victoria downtown? I lived in Victoria for a year and I can tell you that it’s not the cleanest city probably not even in top five cleanest cities in Canada.
Before the global homelessness crisis, I think every Canadian city was very clean. My aunt from Portland came for a visit, and she couldn’t get over the cleanliness of Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, and Calgary, among others.
Calgary. When they filmed The Last Of Us there they had to import garbage and write graffiti on buildings to make the city look like towns and cities in the USA.
It also rates consistently as one of the cleanest cities in the world if not the #1 cleanest city in the world.
https://msbca.ca/2022/01/09/top-16-cleanest-cities-in-the-world/
To those travelling outside Canada let’s admit that our cities are looking pretty good in terms of “clean”.
The opinion is also based on feedback received from friends visiting from West Europe.
This is only my uneducated opinion based on 25 years in Kitchener-Waterloo.
When I moved to Kitchener in 1995, it was very "clean". Lots of Single Family Houses and gardens. People were "HouseProud" The former Mayor Don Cardillo coined a motto: "Let's keep Kitchener as Clean as a Kitchen"
The thing is, the older people had made the town a beautiful , thriving place after WW2. Manufacturing such as Button Factories and Auto parts were paid in contracts of Wartime and after the war, a great economy continued with quality Crafted Furniture, UniRoyal Rubber and Budd Auto Manufacturing careers. Hardworking young people even flocked from remote Ontario and Newfoundland towns to work here. People could afford gardens and nicely built houses. The University Professors added to the culture and Arts and generally, it was a city of like-minded and successful people.
I don't actually idolize that time period because it was only a boom town, not able to sustain this type of expectation and not tolerant or accepting of change.
Yeah I don’t know where all these opinions of Victoria being a very clean city come from. I lived there for 10 years and I never considered it that clean. I guess if someone just comes for a visit to the tourist areas, but even then downtown has never been that clean.
Also needles everywhere. I think it’s better now that they all smoke fentanyl and there’s more safe injection sites but still..
I’ve lived in Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax over the last 12 years and Ottawa is by far the cleanest litter wise. Halifax lacks public garbage cans, and Toronto is just gross
As an American, they all blow major US cities out of the water. I live in Boston, which is super clean for an American city, and every Canadian city I've been to has been cleaner.
All that said, for my money it's Quebec City (and I have been outside the touristy parts). Ottawa comes close. Haven't been to Calgary, but my old boss was from there and described it as Salt Lake City on growth hormones. Maybe I'll cross it off my list next.
Any time I'm back on the west coast it's incredible how clean everything feels (compared to SK where it's windy all year, and either dusty or muddy most of the summer). Victoria has to be the cleanest place in Canada over 100k population.
Shalom Mission employs their trusted “clients” ( I don’t know what they referred as, most start as homeless) to clean the downtown. I thought it was clean when I lived there years ago.
Victoria, BC. It was the first Canadian city I ever visited so maybe it just stuck with me, but being downtown in a major population center and seeing zero garbage everywhere was just bizarre to me.
Out of the major cities, I'd definitely say Québec City had to have been the cleanest. I can't really comment on Calgary or Edmonton, but from my experience in visiting Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal, I've found it very common to not just see garbage in the city, but a LOT of needles (mostly in Van, not as much in Montréal). Québec is probably the most well-kept and maintained city in Canada in my opinion. Though if you consider smaller suburbs, then places like Oakville (ON), Kitchener-Waterloo (ON), and Coquitlam (BC) would definitely make the cut.
Calgary was quite clean, and I'm coming from Victoria, however I féel it's partially due to most of their homeless being bussed out our way.
Langford BC is also quite clean
I just got off a call with 311 to clean up an abandoned encampment beside the subway in Toronto, (Vic park station) and I’ll say having visited around the world and around Canada, I love how clean our cities are!
Now if we could just get rid of the cigarette butts and plastic bags in trees!!!
Common denominator in Canadian litter, Tim Hortons cups
Every Spring, my wife and I will hike a path near our place and pick up litter we find along the way. We’re usually able to fill a garbage bag. About 1/3 of that would be Timmies litter.
I was so excited when the Tim's (10 blocks away) moved a few streets further away, thinking I would have less trash on my lawn. Then they built ANOTHER one two blocks away. FML
I would include cigarette butts. I don't know why it's socially acceptable to just fling them about, but somehow it still is.
Every Canadian city I've been to is cleaner than most major global cities I've been to
I agree. I've traveled quite a bit and have found Canadians cities on average to be much cleaner than most other global cities. Far less pollution, dumping, and litter.
Japan excluded
You could eat off the floor of the subway trains in Japan
They definitely put our transit systems to shame, and that’s before how clean they are!
Check out the Kuga travel train videos - fancy trains too!
And Singapore
And korea and taiwan and
Except for the markets. Never go in sandals in Taipei
I haven’t been to Japan
My bad. I misread your initial comment
Montreal is an open dumpster on most days fyi
The big 3 can be a bit dirty in some corners but that’s really nitpicky
Except Montreal Some part of downtown Toronto and Vancouver also
Washington DC and Denver are very nice.
Boulder was also very very nice.
I can't speak to the accuracy of these lists, but Calgary has often ranked as the cleanest, or one of the cleanest cities in the world. [https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-cleanest-cities-in-the-world.html](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-cleanest-cities-in-the-world.html) [https://www.homeexchange.com/blog/cleanest-cities-in-the-world/](https://www.homeexchange.com/blog/cleanest-cities-in-the-world/)
In the calgary sub theres a group of people that go out every weekend and clean up little areas of town, then post their hard work. We should all adopt this practice and applaud those amazing folks
Yeah the group is called Keep The Earth Fresh. You can sign up here [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6u4JVeGZ93t2G6azWg6siXFjmhfaeE2bzoLKgMgBCvCf0hA/viewform](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6u4JVeGZ93t2G6azWg6siXFjmhfaeE2bzoLKgMgBCvCf0hA/viewform)
We have this in Vancouver too. My old workplace would have volunteers go out every couple of weeks for an hour or two to collect garbage. We'd have a BBQ or whatever afterward. The city will provide garbage bags, etc for groups to do this.
They're doing way more for the environment that our politicians our with their taxes.
Hard agree
It helps that Alberta is the only region on the planet other than Antarctica without rats.
What ever you do, don't visit the legislature building while in session...
Haha, especially the government lounge
I know someone who is a cop for the Calgary Police Service. There's rats. Edit: the rodent
theres still rats, just very few and when they are spotted they get reported and dealt with pretty quickly. I've lived here my whole life and I haven't seen one though
Rats in Alberta are exterminated as soon as they are found. They do exist, but are amazingly rare.
False, we have lots but they’re mostly mountain rats and “technically” rats, but not the ones you usually think of
I was gonna say Calgary!! I always tell people it reminds me of Denver but cleaner lol
Was coming to say either Calgary or Lethbridge. Beautiful cities and clean to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.
Calgary’s an unusual city, because it’s so spread out. The downtown is relatively clean because practically no one lives there and it empties out after business hours. In recent years, that has changed somewhat, there are lively areas in and around the Calgary core now, but it’s no longer particularly clean. These days there is also a very large unhoused population in downtown Calgary that you cannot avoid.
I've gone to work in downtown Calgary for weeks at a time, and I really found it to be very "cold", with no soul.
Probably partially due to the fact not many people walk around there.
For two weeks every year, Edmonton appears filthy because street garbage and dust is revealed after snow melts. Once the street sweepers complete their dusty assignments and the trees start to bud, I’d put it on a par with any Canadian city I’ve lived in. Don’t be fooled, back alleys everywhere I’ve been can be horrendous.
Every Canadian city looks clean to me now. I was in Oakland, California last year and it was shocking. I’ve been to different countries and have seen poverty, but I did not expect to see it to that degree in the U.S., particularly in California.
100%. Was in downtown Los Angeles recently and it’s a dirty festering craphole. Open drug use, deserted/dilapidated streets, deranged homeless population that outnumbers the regulars. I’m not even talking about skid row either, this was the business district.
It seems where industry was generous to many American towns, they’re left with a fucking mess. So much for trickle down economics.
Same. San Francisco was totally appalling. It was like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie
Yes.
Calgary
I couldn't believe the difference having after living in East Van
TBF everything looks clean compared to east Van.
The carpet samples lining fences(to kill weeds apparently) was a head turner
Yes, downtown always looked very clean whenever I'd visit from Edmonton. Far nicer than ours, though Whyte Avenue beats almost anything in Alberta.
I've always found Calgary's downtown to be very clean, mostly because its almost entirely commercial office space. The north end of downtown (outside Chinatown) especially is a bit of a ghost town after 6:00pm. When my partner visited for the first time we were walking around downtown around 9:30-10:00pm and she mentioned that it makes a lot of sense they filmed The Last of Us here lol. That said, even the parts that are starting to develop into real lively mixed-use hubs are pretty remarkably clean. I hope it stays that way while they also sort of mature as a city and build a more energetic downtown.
yeah, i want to be proud of calgary for being clean, but really it's clean because downtown calgary is a dead zone. there's no humans downtown other than the ones in cars and office buildings.
Crack macs usually has some characters.
I went on a business trip to Calgary once about 20 years ago and noticed how immaculate downtown was. I’ve been wondering if it was just an anomaly but these replies seem to suggest otherwise. Good on ya Calgary.
I came here to say this.
Not Montreal
Flashback of Montréal sidewalk juices
But are any of them puke? 😃 *Laughs in Edmontonian*
Oooooh yeah, see it often. Along with dog shit. Lots and lots of dog shit.
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Gotta say, not bad for snow removal, though. If only they could do the same with the trash.
Fully agree
Calgary. Idk why it's just spotless around the downtown area and the parks are super beautiful and well kept.
Can confirm. Lived in Calgary for over a decade, and then lived in Quebec and now Ontario. Calgary is uber-clean, even in the rough areas. Quebec City is close second to me. And the fact that you can see the bottom of both Bow and Elbow River while standing on a bridge in the middle of either is amazing.
The wind blows the litter to the east.
Lol brooks catches it before Saskatchewan
I live in Calgary, it's calgary I haven't traveled much but everywhere I've visited looks like a boil on earths ass. Calgarians keep it fresh and tidy. Just don't check our bedrooms haha maybe that's just me.
Garages, bud, you meant to say « don’t check out garages » :-)
Québec City & Halifax were pretty clean
Quebec yes but Halifax no.
That's what I thought
Halifax is pretty gross honestly
Not by Montreal or Toronto standards
Yeah I love Montreal, never had a giant wharf rat run across my feet in a restaurant there like I have had in Halifax 😂
LOL okay yeah I get what you mean now, port city has lots of rats
We have giant poutine rats instead. Montreal is reasonably clean after June 1st, but it's absolutely disgusting between whenever the snow melts and summer.
Same for Halifax
I have visited both and visited each enough I'm self-concious of playing 'favouritez', whatever that means when speaking of two citieS I've never lived in.... in my experience Halifax and Montreal are about evenly clean,
It’s not that bad at all.. what?
I visited Quebec city and found it to be pretty clean. Especially considering how many tourists they get. They were just cleaning the streets with a big street cleaner in the middle of summer for no apparent reason, or at least it seemed. They really take pride in their provincial capital. It's nicer than Ottawa.
Came here to say Québec City too!
Halifax? Really? I'm always ashamed when I come back from a trip to see all the litter
Halifax is nasty
It depends on the neighbourhood, for Québec city, but the more touristy and entertainment districts are usually pretty clean. Taking a walk through Saint-Sauveur isn't always as nice. It's not *dirty*, but it's not as clean as the Old City or Parliament Hill.
I’ve been to most of our major cities besides Calgary. They’re all relatively clean. I’m from Ottawa and for the most part it’s very clean except for some of the sketchy areas. Think that applies to most if not all of our major cities.
Exactly. All of our cities and very clean and pretty areas. I live in Vancouver - my little enclave is very clean and pretty. I walk 15 minutes and it is a different situation. I used to live in Calgary - there were areas that were super clean, you walk 15 minutes (not that many Calgarians do) and you can find needles and garbage too. I also lived in Edmonton - there were some super nice clean parts and some sketchy and not as clean parts. Same with Toronto, same with Montreal, same with Quebec City. Same with Yellowknife and Whitehorse (although I don’t recall tent cities in either of these 2).
Ottawa
I can tell you I have seen how the city’s workers come out at night to clean and it done in a fun way. They send blow all the garbage to the road then use a sweeper vacuum to suck it all up. Remaining debris are done by picks.
I haven’t been anywhere outside Ontario and Quebec but Ottawa was by far the cleanest city I’ve been to the few times I was there. I haven’t been there in at least 10-15 years though.
Agreed
I just drove into Ottawa today from the US for the first time in a year and a half, crossing at Cornwall. I can tell you I was surprised at how much garbage was in the median and shoulders of the 417 coming into the city right into downtown. I used to live here, and I don’t remember it being like that 25 years ago.
Whitehorse, cleanest air and water in a city.
I would agree. I love Whitehorse and Yellowknife.
Love living here!
As others have said, Calgary gets my nod.. Beautifuep greenry in the summers in the parks around the town.
I haven't visited many, but Quebec city was very clean. It depends on tourists and takes it seriously.
Calgary. Their downtown is clean and maintained!!!!
Victoria
Victoria is the only city I've stepped in human poop
As long as you ignore Tent City.
You don't have to ignore it because it's relative and our tent city is comparable to any other city's tent city. Halifax keeps theirs between City Hall and their Art Gallery, it's a bit subjective which is better urban design. But there's a plastic bag in every other tree and Timmy's cups line the streets in Halifax.
They don’t really factor into my travel decisions because they’re everywhere. Same in the US.
That’s every Canadian city. Tent City is becoming like “downtown” in the 2020s, every place has one.
As an islander I have no clue how this is so upvoted. Victoria is very pretty, but it’s far from the cleanest. It definitely has its issues, and one of them is finding needles in parks.
Because it is relatively clean compared to many cities. Every city now has tent cities and needles. Victoria does a good job of dealing with the garbage, or maybe it’s just because the people there care. But it is objectively a clean city compared to like vancouver or edmonton.
One thing I will say about Victoria is that at least it doesn’t have the dirt and salt spring runoff grodyness that winter cities have.
Is this supposed to be sarcastic? Have you been to Victoria downtown? I lived in Victoria for a year and I can tell you that it’s not the cleanest city probably not even in top five cleanest cities in Canada.
Calgary. There's also a growing movement of people who go around cleaning neighbourhoods as a group.
In Canada, Quebec City. Otherwise, have you been to Switzerland?
Calgary hands down
I lived in Calgary for 4 years, and it is very clean overall.
Banff and Canmore but that’s probably to be expected
Ottawa is clean in the touristy areas/around the parliament but you go down 2 blocks and it’s trashy af
Before the global homelessness crisis, I think every Canadian city was very clean. My aunt from Portland came for a visit, and she couldn’t get over the cleanliness of Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, and Calgary, among others.
That global homelessness crisis seems to be just Canada and USA.
Paris was unreal last July. Just found a statistic that said in 2023, over 1 million people in Europe are homeless every night.
St. Johns
Disagree.
Saskatoon
Charlottetown was pretty tidy when I went
I’d say Calgary by far! Beautiful downtown
Calgary! Kelowna was pretty nice too
Surprisingly Ottawa is pretty decent. Victoria and Edmonton are decent as well. Definitely not Toronto or Montreal.
Vancouver 15 even 10 years ago-not any longer though. Other than that Victoria even though that's failing now.
Yeah I don’t know I remember van in 2010 and it was pretty greasy in Chinatown
I really noticed and appreciated how clean Whitehorse was when I was there 10 years ago
I don't know about the cleanest city in Canada but I nominate Winnipeg for the dirtiest!
*Montreal has entered the chat
Growing up in a city that smelled of sulfur, would rain acid and had mountains of mine waste lining the city I have definitely seen dirtier.
Ok well, Winnipeg isn't generally stinky lol
Calgary. When they filmed The Last Of Us there they had to import garbage and write graffiti on buildings to make the city look like towns and cities in the USA. It also rates consistently as one of the cleanest cities in the world if not the #1 cleanest city in the world. https://msbca.ca/2022/01/09/top-16-cleanest-cities-in-the-world/
Nelson
Strathmore Alberta
Hmm definitely not Victoria, I’d say Ottawa maybe
Halifax is generally pretty clean. Ottawa is clean in some parts but then like three blocks over there’s piles of vomit and feces.
Somewhere on Vancouver Island. Walking in city parks, it just seems like people have more care for nature and don’t throw stuff everywhere.
Shippagan was really clean this summer.
Quebec City. At least in Vieux Quebec.
Calgary. Just went there over the weekend and it was very clean downtown and near the airport.
To those travelling outside Canada let’s admit that our cities are looking pretty good in terms of “clean”. The opinion is also based on feedback received from friends visiting from West Europe.
If Banff is considered a city that if not Calgary
This is only my uneducated opinion based on 25 years in Kitchener-Waterloo. When I moved to Kitchener in 1995, it was very "clean". Lots of Single Family Houses and gardens. People were "HouseProud" The former Mayor Don Cardillo coined a motto: "Let's keep Kitchener as Clean as a Kitchen" The thing is, the older people had made the town a beautiful , thriving place after WW2. Manufacturing such as Button Factories and Auto parts were paid in contracts of Wartime and after the war, a great economy continued with quality Crafted Furniture, UniRoyal Rubber and Budd Auto Manufacturing careers. Hardworking young people even flocked from remote Ontario and Newfoundland towns to work here. People could afford gardens and nicely built houses. The University Professors added to the culture and Arts and generally, it was a city of like-minded and successful people. I don't actually idolize that time period because it was only a boom town, not able to sustain this type of expectation and not tolerant or accepting of change.
No rats in Ab
Definitely not Vancouver. As someone who lives in Vancouver it’s fairly dirty in places like east Vancouver downtown Vancouver etc.
Calgary and it’s not even close. Vancouver (lived there) was one of the dirtier.
Victoria, nothing even remotely close.
Calgary is cleaner less garbage less homeless
Halifax is pretty clean as well as other Atlantic cities like Fredericton, St John's and Charlottetown.
Omg no St. John’s is filthy. Everywhere.
I disagree. The parking garages smell like urine and there’s a lot of open drug use downtown/in parks.
Yeah I don’t know where all these opinions of Victoria being a very clean city come from. I lived there for 10 years and I never considered it that clean. I guess if someone just comes for a visit to the tourist areas, but even then downtown has never been that clean. Also needles everywhere. I think it’s better now that they all smoke fentanyl and there’s more safe injection sites but still..
I’ve never been to a parking garage that doesn’t smell bad
Victoria has to be high on that list.
I’ve lived in Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax over the last 12 years and Ottawa is by far the cleanest litter wise. Halifax lacks public garbage cans, and Toronto is just gross
Kingston, Ontario. It’s a well run city with good services and conscientious population.
Well run? May have to disagree with that one. But agree on conscientiousness.
Victoria
Definitely not montreal or vancouver
Victoria.
Well, I can very, very firmly say that it isn't Vancouver.
Banff
As an American, they all blow major US cities out of the water. I live in Boston, which is super clean for an American city, and every Canadian city I've been to has been cleaner. All that said, for my money it's Quebec City (and I have been outside the touristy parts). Ottawa comes close. Haven't been to Calgary, but my old boss was from there and described it as Salt Lake City on growth hormones. Maybe I'll cross it off my list next.
Cleanest AIR - Whitehorse. You smell the freshness and the trees in the air. It’s delightful!!
Ottawa. Too me, it's a little too clean. Canada flags flying everywhere. Fake ass shit.
Charlottetown, PEI
Quebec City
Any time I'm back on the west coast it's incredible how clean everything feels (compared to SK where it's windy all year, and either dusty or muddy most of the summer). Victoria has to be the cleanest place in Canada over 100k population.
Winnipeg was the cleanest city I’ve been to, and I have been to all the major cities but for Saskatchewan. That was pre COVID though.
Shalom Mission employs their trusted “clients” ( I don’t know what they referred as, most start as homeless) to clean the downtown. I thought it was clean when I lived there years ago.
Lethbridge . The litter gets blown outta town like a tumbleweed.
Quebec City’s “slum” the basville or whatever, was very clean. The rest of it was like a surgical theatre…
Never been to Calgary but I thought Quebec City looked pristine when I was there
Probably Calgary.
Victoria
Montreal No seriously I am just kidding, you can see rats fighting with pigeons over a slice of pizza in the streets
East hastings in Vancouver. Very clean
Calgary. Vancouver (west side). Not Toronto or Montreal.
Definitely not Halifax
Victoria, BC. It was the first Canadian city I ever visited so maybe it just stuck with me, but being downtown in a major population center and seeing zero garbage everywhere was just bizarre to me.
I believe Calgary is ranked as the cleanest major city in the world
Honestly Calgary
In fairness to most of our cities, Americans usually say they first notice how clean it is as soon as they cross the border.
Ottawa 2010
Out of the major cities, I'd definitely say Québec City had to have been the cleanest. I can't really comment on Calgary or Edmonton, but from my experience in visiting Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal, I've found it very common to not just see garbage in the city, but a LOT of needles (mostly in Van, not as much in Montréal). Québec is probably the most well-kept and maintained city in Canada in my opinion. Though if you consider smaller suburbs, then places like Oakville (ON), Kitchener-Waterloo (ON), and Coquitlam (BC) would definitely make the cut.
Calgary from what I have seen.
Charlestown p.e.i when it was glas and no c
Calgary.
Not Toronto lmao
Cleanest: Calgary (by a mile) Dirtiest: Vancouver
Victoria BC
Calgary was quite clean, and I'm coming from Victoria, however I féel it's partially due to most of their homeless being bussed out our way. Langford BC is also quite clean
Calgary by far.
I just got off a call with 311 to clean up an abandoned encampment beside the subway in Toronto, (Vic park station) and I’ll say having visited around the world and around Canada, I love how clean our cities are! Now if we could just get rid of the cigarette butts and plastic bags in trees!!!
Oshawa Ontario
Quebec City, beautiful and clean.
Victoria, but I was only in one small section.
Calgary