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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
My conceptualisation of Canada is pretty..."Laurentian", so Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, and Ottawa are basically quintessential urban Canada to me.
Vancouver is a kind of idealized version of Canada-as-a-brand viewed through the foreign gaze. Calgary too.
Newfoundland is the most non-traditional-Canada for me. I see it as more part of the pan-Atlantic Island world than the Canada I know, so St. John's for least Canadian I guess?
There aren't really any right or wrong answers here.
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Oh yeah it’s not meant to be a right or wrong type of discussion, just interesting to see how opinions vary.
To expand upon my choices, when a city feels less Canadian or is more “exotic” to me is when I can easily picture it in another country.
Victoria I could easily picture being placed on the South Island of New Zealand and not looking out of place at all.
St. John’s could easily be placed on the Faroe Islands and look right at home.
Windsor looks like it belongs south of the border (there is a geographical pun there).
But to me, I could only ever imagine places such as Edmonton and Ottawa in Canada.
Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to for that matter.