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

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout (Post 10493153)

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.

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...

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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:

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

/\ 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.

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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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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

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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:

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