The short answer
The Living Bread maps 398 Christian churches in Canada in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.Canada in context
37 millionpopulation
53.3%Christian (Statistics Canada, 2021)
19.7 millionChristians (approx.)
398churches we map
The churches of Canada are Roman Catholic and a wide range of Protestant traditions.
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Browse the 398 churches we map, by city, with denomination and location where the open data records it.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Statistics Canada (2021); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
