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Old Posted Jan 14, 2020, 2:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Acajack View Post
In places that have undergone mergers between adjacent suburbs and the city proper to create a unicity or megacity, it's still common for people to refer to more peripheral, less dense parts of the new city proper as the "suburbs". For example in Ottawa places like Orleans, Kanata and Barrhaven as the suburbs. In Toronto Rob Ford was said to have been elected by suburban voters, ie people in lower density parts of Scarborough, Etobicoke and North York that are now part of Toronto proper. I think that this type of nomenclature is slowing dying out, but it's still there.
Would you consider Manor Park, Alta Vista, Overbrook, Nepean, etc to be suburbs of Ottawa? I do. Heck I still remember the time I referred to the Glebe as a suburb.
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