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Originally Posted by cheswick
Annexation would make sense but we're in a thread talking of the opposite? What makes Halifax and Ottawa superior to Vancouver which is a bunch of municipalities? In the states you can find even more examples where the city proper is surrounded by many municipalities. Boston, Atlanta, Minneapolis etc all have populations less than that of Winnipeg.
The island of Montreal was once amalgamated by the provincial government, the next government gave the municipalities a referendum and many of them ceded from the city. You have a case where there are municipalities on the island that are wholly surrounded by the city of Montreal.
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Notwithstanding the occasional Headingley-type scenario, in my view annexation is more desirable and realistic than de-amalgamation.