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Chart 5
The 10 metropolitan areas with the highest and the lowest proportions of women aged 40 to 44, who were mothers of pre-school-aged children, varied according to the size of the region in 2006

Metropolitan areas Percentage
Toronto 12.9
Vancouver 11.8
Guelph 10.9
Calgary 10.7
Ottawa-Gatineau 10.3
Hamilton 10.1
Victoria 9.8
Oshawa 9.4
St. John's 9.3
Montréal 9.2
Canada 8.9
St. Catharines-Niagara 6.8
Brantford 6.6
Sherbrooke 6.5
Québec 6.3
Saint John 6.1
Thunder Bay 5.8
Greater Sudbury 4.7
Saguenay 4.6
Moncton 4.6
Trois-Rivières 4.5
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.