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St. John's looks like a lot of fun! can't wait to visit..hopefully this summer.

This is the block where the new art gallery will eventually be going:
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One that isn't my own.

This Helen missus, her drone shots, awesome.

https://i.postimg.cc/WtcLWFKk/224773...35933539-n.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/groups/discoveringnewfoundland

Beautiful photos of Montreal. I would love to go there one day. Furthest East I've been is Toronto. :D

Trying to upload a photo I took from Imgur... doesn't seem to be working for me. Does it need to be for a specific platform?

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Originally Posted by The Great Scaper (Post 9357011)

Beautiful photos of Montreal. I would love to go there one day. Furthest East I've been is Toronto. :D

Beautiful indeed! I always look forward to the weekly collection. St. John's looking colourful as well.

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Originally Posted by Zeej (Post 9357094)

Trying to upload a photo I took from Imgur... doesn't seem to be working for me. Does it need to be for a specific platform?

Imgur works fine in my experience. But often when they give the image link it's actually the url of an imgur page displaying the image rather than to the image itself. If they don't offer it, you can usually get by isolating it from the longer url or right clicking on the image in the image page and selecting copy image address or view image in separate tab or something depending on your browser.

They tend to prefer to give links that direct people to their site since they can show ads and publicize their service rather than have the image embed in another site so they make you work a little.

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse (Post 9357105)

Thanks so much - works like a charm:
https://i.imgur.com/SIVr5Hv.jpg

Image by me from last weekend.

Very nice! Griffintown has improved tremendously within the last decade.

Moncton reminds me a bit of Kitchener, or what Kitchener would be like if it were on its own without Waterloo and Cambridge/Guelph around that area. It has a nice collection of landmark buildings like the churches/cathedral, old schools, Dominion Public Building, and that old "castle". It is more the connective urban fabric between these that is somewhat missing, partly replaced by parking lots, but these can easily be redeveloped and probably would be. If 50-100 nice looking lowrise apartment buildings were built around downtown Moncton it would be a vibrant area, and there is space and demand for that.

I think Moncton could/should be for Canada a bit what Southeast cities like those in NC or Nashville are for the US. Not everyone will have the highest quality of life in the biggest cities.

It is also interesting to think of how the "urban system" in the Maritimes has evolved. For a number of decades it was struggling and too small to work well as a system of cities that all benefited from being close to each other (not enough businesses, transportation connections not good enough).

https://uploads.agoramtl.com/origina...b1d8471b4.jpeg
Midtown Manhattan???

https://uploads.agoramtl.com/origina...b571f91e8.jpeg
Paris, the left bank???

Montreal seems to have something for everyone. :)

^ What a brilliant name for a restaurant :haha:

Scene-stealing, sexy Montreal

I'd never seen St-Sauveur before but it reminds me a lot of Halifax's North End, though largely brick while Halifax is mostly wooden facades. The overall form and even topography feel very familiar though.

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 9358749)

There are districts that looks similar to Montreal and there are others that has a maritimes / Halifax feel. That's quite nice IMO to have that diversity!

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs (Post 9359138)

There are districts that looks similar to Montreal and there are others that has a maritimes / Halifax feel. That's quite nice IMO to have that diversity!

The architecture is fairly different in the scheme of working class Western architecture from that period but the building arrangement and street network is roughly similar. I wonder if part of it is that Quebec and Halifax were both slower growing cities while Montreal was a faster growing city.

In Halifax there are blocks with medium density buildings from the early 1800's outside of downtown where somebody came along and building something of similar density 100 years later. In Montreal in 1900 it was already more industrial scale greenfield construction.

A significant portion of West End Halifax is made up of street planned out in the 1870's ("city streets" and "tree streets") and some of them have 1930's and 40's houses on them.

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Originally Posted by someone123 (Post 9359161)

Did I ever told you how much I love Halifax? I am a born Montrealer, however, the ocean shore has always been appealing to me. So, I would rather move to Halifax than Ottawa if I could and you would never see me living in the prairies...I would feel to be in jail or landlocked...

In a certain way, Quebec city is the Front door of the maritimes. Not the provinces themselves but the landscapes and the atmosphere.

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs (Post 9359194)

In a certain way, Quebec city is the Front door of the maritimes. Not the provinces themselves but the landscapes and the atmosphere.

I never thought of it that way before, but it makes sense.

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Originally Posted by esquire (Post 9359208)

I never thought of it that way before, but it makes sense.

Yup and you get more colourful homes in Quebec city aswell as whales & saltwater starting from Orleans island. East of the island, you see villages name ending by "sur-mer" (on-the-sea)...

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