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Originally Posted by mistercorporate
Vancouver:
1) Stanley Park
2) Rec Beach
Toronto:
1) Sunnyside beach/park
2) Corktown Common park
3) Berkzy Park
4) Sherbourne park and waterfront promenade
1) Toronto Islands park/beach
Montreal:
1) Mont Royal
Victoria:
1) Anywhere on the gulf islands, beauty and nature everywhere.
Kelowna:
1) The whole place looks like a beautiful park.
Banff:
1) Never been, but I'd imagine it has the same effect as the place above.
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If you are to include the tiny Berkzy Park in Toronto, which is more like a square to me, then you have to include all the squares in downtown Montreal, most of them bigger than Berkzy:
- Dorchester Square / Place du Canada
- Place Jean-Paul Riopelle
- Square Victoria
- Square Cabot
- Old port
- Square Viger
- Square Gamelin
- Esplanade Clark
- Parc Jeanne-Mance
- McGill central green
- Champ-de-Mars
- Westmount Park (not downtown but close enough)
- Place d’Youville
And if you include the Toronto Islands, then you have to include the Jean Drapeau park on St-Helen island and also the park on Notre-Dame island, both closer to Montreal downtown than their Toronto equivalent.
But since the question is what are the « best downtown parks in Canada », I guess Mont-Royal park would be the natural choice for Montreal. All the rest are merely squares or « places » like Place Jacques-Cartier or Place d’Armes. Even the linear park of the Old Port is no match to Mont-Royal park. IMO, Toronto lacks a proper large downtown park.