The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II

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I don't think anybody is suggesting that if you drop somebody in Ottawa or Edmonton they are going to think they are in New York... And obviously population isn't everything. There are many factors that can account for the character of a place. Halifax, for example 'feels' bigger than most other cities I have been to of a similar size. Part of the reason looking at population can be so interesting is that sometimes it doesn't line up with how a city feels. I think it is nearly impossible to take two places like Winnipeg and Edmonton and try to quantify the difference that few hundred thousand makes. But if you started in canadian cities of around 300,000-400,000, and kept going to bigger cities until you were in those around a million, I think there are trends. Certainly not finite thresholds of what population levels produce certain things. It isn't a hard set rule, but it can sure be a helpful place to start. I do think a big problem with population is just the way we think about numbers. To most 1 million just sounds way bigger than 900,000 whereas 1.2 million and 1 million sounds about the same.

In terms of the Trans-Canada thing, I could definately also see the geographical location playing a part. The portion where the Yellowhead highway splits off is also pretty far north in relation to the where the vast majority of the Canadian population is....