The Great Canadian Castles Thread - Page 3

Denscity · #41 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 7:30 PM**

By the way there are no castles in Castlegar lol.

TorontoDrew · #42 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 7:58 PM**

Nor was there ever a castle at Castle Frank station in Toronto.

samne · #43 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 8:17 PM**

A lot of area in Montreal west of McGill on the mountain is castle-y. Love it.

samne · #44 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 8:22 PM**

https://imtl.org/montreal/building/L...on-Seegram.php

Seagram House - Peel Street Mtl

TSteph9 · #45 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by jeddy1989

This is a "castle" in Logy bay (a municipality in the St. John's metro area, just outside the city). It was built like 10 years ago ish.

Insane, looks like the perfect location for a horror movie lol.

TSteph9 · #46 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 8:36 PM**

Casa Loma, Toronto.

https://www.todocanada.ca/wp-content...Engagement.jpg

Rico Rommheim · #47 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 8:42 PM**

The scale of Casa loma is insane. The tower itself is 38m tall. Good enough for a 12 storey apartment building.

Jamaican-Phoenix · #48 Posted **Oct 18, 2019, 9:14 PM**

Does Fort Chambly in Quebec count?

lio45 · #49 Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 12:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

Sounds like this is a fort and not a castle.

An actual fort is MUCH closer to being a "castle" than, say, a 1980s private Calgary home with battlements. Or even that Newfoundland one. Or a railway hotel. Or anything else that exists in Canada, actually.

someone123 · #50 Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 1:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by lio45

An actual fort is MUCH closer to being a "castle" than, say, a 1980s private Calgary home with battlements. Or even that Newfoundland one. Or a railway hotel. Or anything else that exists in Canada, actually.

Fort Chambly is a castle. It's got heavily exposed defensive masonry walls.

It's so unique because it was obsolete right around when it was built. It was super expensive and badly designed. Vauban earthworks were being built right around that time. Port Royal has Vauban earthworks from 1702. If Fort Chambly had been attacked with state of the art late 1600's artillery it would have been reduced to a pile of rubble.

Rico Rommheim · #51 Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 8:11 PM**

Armouries in Bagel City want to be castles, too.

Cote-des-neiges armoury

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8089/8...6d569a15_c.jpg

Manege des Fusiliers Mont-Royal

Black Watch armoury

Tucked away in an obscure corner of downtown...the cathcart Armoury

Quebec city`s own Manège militaire Voltigeurs de Québec

https://s3-ca-central-1.amazonaws.co...7_sc_v2com.jpg

someone123 · #52 Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 10:08 PM**

It looks like the restoration/repair job on the Quebec City armoury went well. The different tones of brick are really striking.

lio45 · #53 Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 10:16 PM**

I was going to say the same thing - awesome restoration job.

I don't recall by whom but I'm almost certain I was told that the post-fire interior is not anywhere near as nice as the original, though.

Just like obviously the attic of Our Lady of Paris cathedral won't ever be anywhere as nice as it was from the Middle Ages to 2019.

lio45 · #54 Posted **Oct 19, 2019, 10:21 PM**

There's one downtown Sherbrooke armory that's in the same castle-esque style as those Montreal ones:

The other one (which is downtown as well) is the original courthouse, a building dating from 1839 when Sherbrooke was a very young city (it's the third or fourth oldest surviving building in this city; second oldest if you take only the core pre-merger city).

It's closer to Greek Revival American style though, not castle-y in any way.

someone123 · #55 Posted **Oct 20, 2019, 12:51 AM**

There is a small Scottish castle (really looks like more of a house) that was supposedly nearly moved to Nova Scotia in the 1950's. I'm having trouble finding references to it but I've read that it was in a state of poor repair around 1950 and the provincial legislature debated shipping the whole thing across the Atlantic. It was instead restored.

Menstrie Castle, home of William Alexander:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrie_Castle

There is a plaque by Edinburgh Castle that explains the history (and uses "province"):

Source

In 1604 France settled Port Royal, near present-day Annapolis Royal, then in 1613 the British destroyed the colony, then a Scottish settlement was built in 1629, then in 1632 it was handed back to France. There are still people alive today who are baronets of Nova Scotia, which is a little odd since for a while the territory wasn't a British possession. You could become a baronet of Nova Scotia in the 1600's by funding colonists and paying a fee, and you could pass that title down.