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Wigs	Oct 3, 2025 8:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim (Post 10492532)

Good so then you're not crazy. It always blows my mind when people equate MTL to a European city. Why? Because there are old buildings? So does Boston and Philly and NYC, why does that not make then euro? Someone once told me the euro vibe was because of the French language. Isn't English also a euro language? By that logic Cleveland Ohio is also a euro vibe city.

/rant

For American tourists it seems to be the cobblestone or brick streets, stone buildings, French signs and spoken language. Trying to find the best coffee and croissant and acting like it's a mini Paris for North America or some nonsense. The Parisian Art Nouveau-style Metro Entrance doesn't help :haha:
"Aaaannjelaaah ohmygah look, it's just like the signs we saw in Pair-issss!

Great photos, everyone :tup:

MonkeyRonin

Oct 3, 2025 8:18 PM

I've even heard some American visitors describe Toronto as "feeling European". Which, it obviously isn't, but I can also see where they're coming from - compared to most of North America, the streetlife, trams, old masonry buildings, density, and lifestyle might feel more "Euro-esque" on the spectrum of places they're familiar with. Similarly, we sometimes see debates here as to whether Boston or San Francisco or wherever are the most European-like American city.

In other words, these tend to be casual observations and simple descriptors and aren't really something to get too worked up about one way or the other.

Kilgore Trout

Oct 3, 2025 11:16 PM

Thanks for the photos and thoughts, Zoomer.

The one thing that surprises me is you mentioning that you thought bakeries were expensive. I actually find bakeries in Montreal to be much cheaper than elsewhere in Canada, especially given the quality.

Just for example, there's a very highly regarded bakery near me called Automne. Their sourdough baguette is $3.30, their bâtard is $6 and their croissants are $2.40. An equivalent bakery in Toronto, Bisou, has the same things for $4.70, $9.95 and $4.25 respectively. I've found Vancouver to be similar to Toronto price wise. Croissants in particular are way cheaper here than anywhere else in North America (and usually much better too).

Of course I'm talking about French-style bakeries, but even if we're talking about other types of bakeries, I find prices here to be very reasonable. Maybe the one exception is Chinese bakeries which tend to be a little more expensive here than in Vancouver and Toronto, probably because there isn't as much competition.

Architype

Oct 4, 2025 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker (Post 10492130)

Another great day for real estate ads :haha:
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https://i.postimg.cc/G2XDBRgb/1291099-37.jpg
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https://i.postimg.cc/CK8k6bQk/PXL-20...41520-MP-2.jpg

Great photos, the top photo is evidence there are a few Scottish dormers in St. John's. Too bad they changed the other one.

I worked in the purple building, 3rd from left, in the second photo when I was a student.

MonkeyRonin

Oct 4, 2025 1:52 AM

Love that last one of St. John's. That's a beautiful streetscape: ornate, 3-storey buildings hugging the gentle uphill curve in the road, terminating at an imposing church. :boogy:

Nouvellecosse

Oct 4, 2025 2:21 AM

Those last two are beautiful

zoomer

Oct 4, 2025 4:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout (Post 10492949)

To be fair I only went to one bakery specific location, and looking at the website, yah, I think it's just insanely expensive for everything!

https://www.ducdelorraine.ca/

Lots of pastries and baked goods, but also a regular menu, so you could have this for breakfast: The 1952: 3 eggs of your choice, bacon, sausage, pancakes, roast potatoes all for just $52 tip not included.

I'm not a huge croissant fan to be honest, but I did have a egg/cheese/ham one with a mocha at Café Vasco da Gama.

I did have an excellent peach scone though at Olive et Gourmando.

Oh, a long standing side complaint I have about snooty coffee shops in any city, especially old school Italian ones that do not serve mochas out of principal. - Hey I'm sorry, if you can't figure out how to marry two exceptional beans together then you're lame and lazy, how's that for a hot take! I just googled why some don't and this came up as a reason:

"“Many good coffee shops use a great base product [espresso], only to overpower the beautiful delicate flavours of the coffee with a cheap chocolate syrup.” Saayman also claimed that stirring chocolate into the espresso also ‘completely ruins the crema’.

Ok, then don't use cheap chocolate syrup, duh. My favourite one in Victoria uses imported German chocolate chips they first melt in the cup, not syrup and it's crema is perfecto.

Kilgore Trout

Oct 4, 2025 3:35 PM

Ah yes, that explains it! Duc de Lorraine is popular with locals and definitely not a tourist trap, but it's also an institution that has been around for ages and I guess that makes them feel like they can add a huge markup to everything. I have gotten cake there for a couple of special occasions and it's a good 50% more expensive than any comparable pâtisserie.

ScreamingViking

Oct 5, 2025 12:45 AM

And looking toward the west, from very near where the below image was taken. Probably from last year, judging by the development downtown.
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...c377.image.jpg
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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking (Post 10489848)

Some of the piers at the Port of Hamilton, looking eastward.

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...0e35.image.jpg
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Drybrain

Oct 6, 2025 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10492012)

Now this is just a personal opinion (obviously, hehe) but I find it lazy when people say "it's just like Europe!" Well, no it's not and that's more than ok. The friend I met up with who grew up in Montreal kept saying that which was kind of weird. I really dislike that take because why not say "It's just like Montreal" this is what Montreal is and has grown to be over more than 4 centuries on soil located in the Americas. It feels as if it's not giving credit or respect to the people, the city and the history for what it's become.

Somewhat related, it irritates me a little when people refer to the historic part of any North American city as "old world," or—and this is common—when realtors describe a historic house as having "old world charm."

This is a strange conflation of historic urban environments with some fairytale of Europeaness. (Usually these "old world" houses realtors are peddling are colonial or post-colonial North American architectural styles that you would never find examples of in Europe itself.)

TorontoDrew

Oct 6, 2025 1:57 PM

Great set SignalHillHiker, I like your own photos a lot. Great view.

TorontoDrew

Oct 6, 2025 5:58 PM

zoomer

Oct 7, 2025 5:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout (Post 10493153)

ScreamingViking

Oct 8, 2025 7:14 AM

Nice set. :cheers:

That school is beautiful.

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10494223)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c2a2d2e9_h.jpg

Steamship Terminal - October 5, 2025 by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

I was about to say this looks like an old train station, and I see from a quick search it was originally built by the CPR in 1924. I don't think I was aware that company had passenger ships.

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The association of this building with the Canadian Pacific Railway is significant because it survives as a reminder of the important role of the CPR in Victoria's and British Columbia's history. Having been the portal to western Canada for thousands of visitors and immigrants arriving here on CPR steamships...

ScreamingViking

Oct 8, 2025 7:17 AM

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew (Post 10493784)

The last few remaining hot days are not being wasted in Toronto.

Nice slices of life in T.O. :tup:

KnoxfordGuy

Oct 8, 2025 1:41 PM

Cool photo from Instagram user action_port_city of Britiania statue on the New Brunswick legislature. Photo not mine.

https://i.ibb.co/dwR48R88/Screenshot...nstagram-1.jpg

zoomer

Oct 9, 2025 3:49 AM

/\ cool shot - and interesting that the statue is not on the dome itself but the roof of the legislature. Off the top off my head I can think of the Golden Boy on the Manitoba buildings, and Captain Vancouver on top of the BC legislature's dome. Anywhere else with a person/figure on top of the building? I know for BC there are a ton of carvings, statues of people and animals on the building, probably the same with elsewhere, potentially a good topic for a deep dive.

zoomer

Oct 9, 2025 4:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking (Post 10494505)

Nice set. :cheers:

That school is beautiful.

I was about to say this looks like an old train station, and I see from a quick search it was originally built by the CPR in 1924. I don't think I was aware that company had passenger ships.

Yes, the architect was Francis Rattenbury who also design the BC Parliament buildings (construction started 1893 and completed in 1898) and the Empress Hotel (1904 to 1908). So all three of his buildings ring the inner harbour if you've ever been to Victoria you'll know how they frame the view.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...79260fe0_b.jpg

Inner Harbour - August 27, 2024 by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b7afaabe_b.jpg

Empress Hotel - Victoria. September 2, 2023. by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

He also designed the current Vancouver Art Gallery (originally courthouse) as well as the Chateau Lake Louise, but his original wing was destroyed by fire on July 3, 1924.

There's a ton more buildings, in particular in Victoria he was the architect for, I've started an album of my own pics which I'll gradually add to:

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBCbUs

He eventually was forced to leave Victoria because of a scandalous affair, he moved back to Bournemouth where his young wife then had her own affair with their 18 year old chauffeur.

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In the early hours of 23 March 1935, Rattenbury was discovered in his sitting room with severe head injuries. He had sustained a series of blows with a carpenter's mallet, the blows savage enough to remove the back of his skull and to cause his false teeth to fall out; he died four days later. His wife confessed, but Stoner admitted to the housekeeper that he had actually carried out the deed. Alma Rattenbury and Stoner were both charged although Alma was to retract her confession after her elder son Christopher visited her in prison. Stoner was convicted and sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment following the submission to the Home Secretary of a petition signed by over 300,000 people, who felt that the young man had been manipulated into committing murder by the older woman.

Alma, represented by Ewen Montagu, was acquitted of murder and of being an accessory after the fact but committed suicide a few days later on 4 June 1935,[4] stabbing herself with a dagger six times in the chest (three of which penetrated her heart), before throwing herself into the River Stour at Christchurch.[5][6]

Stoner served only seven years of his sentence since he was released early to join the army and fight in the Second World War. He married in 1944 and fathered a daughter in 1948. He and his wife led "a quiet life" in the Bournemouth area although he briefly attracted the attention of the media again when he was given two years' probation for indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy in a public toilet in 1990

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

There is an excellent exhibit on Rattenbury and other Victoria architects at the Wentworth Villa in Victoria - apparently the only architectural musuem in Canada, lol: https://wentworthvilla.com/

And can you imagine if this was built in Prince Rupert!!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nce_Rupert.jpg

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The Château Prince Rupert was an unexecuted hotel to be built in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The hotel was planned by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and was designed by Francis Rattenbury. The architect's first sketches were made in September 1911, and he completed the final plans in June 1913. Work on the foundations began in late 1913, but halted shortly thereafter and never resumed.

The hotel project was part of the Grand Trunk Pacific's plan to make Prince Rupert a west coast port city to rival Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. If built, the structure would have been the focal point of the town and one of the largest hotels in the country. However, the railway's financial problems, combined with the onset of World War I, prevented its realisation. By 1923 the GTP had been absorbed into the new Canadian National Railway, which chose Vancouver as its western terminus.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%..._Prince_Rupert

MonctonRad

Oct 9, 2025 3:42 PM

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Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy (Post 10494615)

Cool photo from Instagram user action_port_city of Britiania statue on the New Brunswick legislature. Photo not mine.

https://i.ibb.co/dwR48R88/Screenshot...nstagram-1.jpg

Great shot.

Britannia gazing over the Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Saint John River with northside Fredericton in the distance.

phone

Oct 9, 2025 4:07 PM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10495087)

And can you imagine if this was built in Prince Rupert!!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nce_Rupert.jpg

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%..._Prince_Rupert

Interesting thought experiment to imagine Prince Rupert as a major west coast port city... maybe never on the scale of Vancouver, Portland etc., but perhaps it could have been BC's "Second City"? I've never been to Prince Rupert, but looking at a map, is there even enough developable land for it to become a real urban centre? Maybe if it was carved into hills like Pittsburgh or something... could you imagine? What a beautiful city it would have been, with the topography, oceanfront (far more exposed than any other west coast city in Canada)... but would it even have been possible?

MonctonRad

Oct 9, 2025 4:29 PM

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Originally Posted by phone (Post 10495234)

It's a very interesting thought.

Prince Rupert at 300,000 to 400,000 people could really have changed the character of coastal northern BC.

I have never been there either, but it is fascinating to think of the possibilities. Would a second major coastal city have provided the impetus to build a coastal highway between Vancouver and the Skeena River region. I know how mountainous the topography is, and how deeply indented the coastline is, but, it would have been one of the most scenic roads in the world, and, would have allowed for the development of other smaller communities all along the BC coast.

jc_yyc_ca

Oct 17, 2025 8:17 PM

Movie night at High Park in Calgary

https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/..._n-jpg.589572/

https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/..._n-jpg.589540/

Tone	Oct 17, 2025 9:34 PM

Rimouski in october
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...acf173ff_h.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...93675fcc_h.jpg
Source:https://www.centris.ca/fr/propriete~a-vendre~rimouski

someone123

Oct 17, 2025 10:08 PM

It's a pretty plausible "what if" for Prince Rupert to be the largest west coast city in Canada. The US claimed all of the land up to Alaska. Maybe Canada could have ended up with a tiny portion of coastal access.

It could be developed into a major city. It would need a system of bridges connecting across the waterways, and the buildings would be built along the flatter areas near the water. It would be a bit like Hong Kong.

Unfortunately, Rupert has a very bad climate with little sunshine, tons of rain, and no real summer.

Kilgore Trout

Oct 17, 2025 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jc_yyc_ca (Post 10498823)

Movie night at High Park in Calgary

Great photos and an amazing turnout!

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Originally Posted by Tone (Post 10498867)

Rimouski in october

What a gorgeous setting for a city, but it's a shame most of the new development in the first photo is so... fugly.

Also, these photos really remind me of how so much of the urban form in Quebec — outside Montreal and central Quebec City — is similar to the Maritimes and New England.

Metro-One

Oct 17, 2025 11:08 PM

Technically there is a second major city in the west coast (if near half a million counts) it’s called Victoria!

As for Prince Rupert, it has all the negatives of a coastal marine climate with nearly none of the benefits (perhaps a year round ice free harbour being the only one).

If we are going to break down west coast NA climates and biogeography into two realms, California and Alaska, Vancouver and especially Victoria are the northernmost extent where the “California” realm still dominates. At around 55% California to 45 Alaska%. For reference Portland would be 70% California, San Fran 85% California, and LA 100% California. Bella Coola on the mid coast would be 25% California and 75% Alaska. Prince Rupert is 99% Alaska.

The only other location in northern BC where I could see a larger urban centre with ocean access making sense would be the Kitimat to Terrace stretch. It actually has a decent amount of flat low land to build upon and they still get a summer.

Now, the largest untapped BC location for a major city with a good climate is the east coast of Vancouver Island from Nanaimo to Campbell River.

jc_yyc_ca

Oct 22, 2025 1:35 PM

EnvisionSaintJohn

Oct 22, 2025 1:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking (Post 10494505)

did they ever:

https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/do...58/0?iiif=1200

That steamship terminal in Victoria is amazing. :D

EnvisionSaintJohn

Oct 22, 2025 1:54 PM

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Originally Posted by jc_yyc_ca (Post 10498823)

Movie night at High Park in Calgary

https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/..._n-jpg.589572/

https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/..._n-jpg.589540/

They're playing Chungking Express... nice. :tup:

jc_yyc_ca

Oct 31, 2025 2:16 PM

Wigs	Oct 31, 2025 5:05 PM

Thanks for the Calgary pics. I used to like hanging out in Inglewood and when in the neighbourhood would usually stop by The Hose & Hound for a pint located in a heritage c.1907 fire hall.

SignalHillHiker

Oct 31, 2025 7:29 PM

Today's real estate drone shots - up at the top of me hill, luh! :haha:

https://i.postimg.cc/zfztHzGP/1292187-1.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/W4NWqN4b/1292187-20.jpg

If the back windows were open, you could bend over and s*** into the next house.

jc_yyc_ca

Nov 3, 2025 2:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Wigs (Post 10505178)

Thanks for the Calgary pics. I used to like hanging out in Inglewood and when in the neighbourhood would usually stop by The Hose & Hound for a pint located in a heritage c.1907 fire hall.

Oh yes, I've stopped by that pub a few times myself :)

zoomer

Nov 3, 2025 8:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker (Post 10505301)

Today's real estate drone shots - up at the top of me hill, luh! :haha:

https://i.postimg.cc/W4NWqN4b/1292187-20.jpg

If the back windows were open, you could bend over and s*** into the next house.

Cool shot but I don't think I'd want to live in that house at the tip of the spear - how many times has it been crashed into?! ;). Although I see they have a nice little road obstruction to keep everyone in line..

zoomer

Nov 3, 2025 8:15 PM

Tone	Nov 3, 2025 11:44 PM

Rimouski this morning
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...82ebe60a_h.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rimo...a?locale=fr_CA

Architype

Nov 4, 2025 1:23 AM

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10506290)

Great set of photos. The top one must have been posed for? :tup:

Was the house being moved, or just raised? It seems they do this sort of house raising a lot in BC. This house, which I noticed the other night, was similar before it was stripped down. I think this technique might be much more common in BC than anywhere else in Canada.

Sorry, not a great photo, but it was dark. ;)

https://a4.pbase.com/o12/52/479852/1...510_uction.jpg

zoomer

Nov 4, 2025 3:28 AM

Yah, it's very common here in Victoria - an 'easy' way to redevelop your property. I believe this one is for an addition.

90% of the time it's to add another level and for the rest they're moving the house elsewhere. Several years back they moved an entire small apartment block from Cook Street Village, put it on a barge and it was shipped to Washington state.

Here's another one from a a few years back, an old house that they stripped and turned it into four separate units for sale, just completed this year.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9c1efe40_b.jpg

1915 Fernwood Road - December 6, 2022 by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

I see that a 597 square foot unit sold for $520,000 and still for sale is a 715 square foot unit for $542,500; the 1136 square foot unit for $855,000 and the 895 square foot unit sold for an unknown price, but guessing in the 700s.

They call it a character conversion, but there's no character inside and the outside is all new, just the old bones retained I guess. A bit of a disappoint I'd say.

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zoomer

Nov 4, 2025 3:31 AM

Tone, that Rimouski project is breaking land speed records! I wonder if they'll be able to keep up the pace when it comes to the interiors. And holy moly, I didn't realize the tide went out that far! Is it a walkable beach or kind of mucky?

ScreamingViking

Nov 4, 2025 4:09 AM

Great timing and symmetry on this one! If only the bird hadn't tilted its head slightly.

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10506290)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c9fc35f2_h.jpg

Malahat Building/Old Custom House - built 1874-75 by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

zoomer

Nov 5, 2025 3:08 AM

Well, ScreamingViking this generous seagull gave me a second chance to take a slightly more focused picture. He even posed patiently for me. They call him SuperCat.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f8752d3c_b.jpg
Supercat the Seagull by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

TorontoDrew

Nov 5, 2025 4:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Tone (Post 10506374)

Rimouski this morning
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...82ebe60a_h.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rimo...a?locale=fr_CA

Wow that tide goes out far!!!

905er

Nov 5, 2025 3:50 PM

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew (Post 10507091)

Wow that tide goes out far!!!

At first glance I thought this was Nunavut....

Tone	Nov 8, 2025 1:56 PM

Love the seagull shots!:D

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Originally Posted by zoomer (Post 10506441)

Rimouski Bay, where downtown is located, is very shallow and muddy like the picture suggests. Together with the seawall, it acts as a natural damper that helps protecting DT.

Not to worry though, the city's territory stretches for more than 20 kms of littoral, so there's other areas with nicer beaches, coastal trails and parks.

FrAnKs

Nov 9, 2025 8:22 PM

^ Victoria is awesome. There’s really something that reminds me of New Zealand.

Rico Rommheim

Nov 10, 2025 1:07 AM

TorontoDrew

Nov 11, 2025 3:34 PM

MolsonExport

Nov 11, 2025 6:48 PM

Rico, I was getting the theme song for the Sopranos playing in my head as I enjoyed your Montreal highway exhibit.

zoomer

Nov 11, 2025 6:57 PM

Yes, really like the highway road trip theme from Rico - very cinematic. You need to put a YouTube song at the beginning like Signal Hill Hiker does for some of his photo sets, maybe I Drove All Night, or Life is a Highway, haha. Highway to Hell? Depends where you were headed I guess.

Also some more Toronto beauties, those Remembrance snow pics are poignant.

Architype

Nov 11, 2025 7:52 PM

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