DID YOU KNOW...

... the idea of sister cities is originally thought to be conceived of during World War II, and Vancouver, with its arrangment with the recently liberated Russian port city of Odessa, may have been the first sister city agreement of its kind in the world.

One city that is linked to another, usually for the purposes of cultural exchange. Canada and the Unites States, which possess the longest undefended border in the world and share close cultural, economic and political ties share 29 official sister cities. Below is the list of cities and the province/state they are located.