The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[Rico Rommheim]

By "classic urban neighbourhood" I'm thinking of a sphere consisting of old districts "Old Quebec", "Old Montreal" and shit like that. St-Lawrence in TO didn't come across as "Old Toronto", too modern, too many new developments. The exchange district is very much an "Old Winnipeg" in that the entire district remains almost intact. Gastown and parts further east like chinatown is the only other "classic urban" district that measures up in western canada in my opinion. Hamilton definitely has solid bones, but I have yet to see a thread or photo to convince me that it has an intact historic district like the Exchange. But then, Hamilton was subjected to an unbelievable, American-level amount of urban "rejuvenation" or whatever the hell the bulldozer drivers called it back then.

Old strathcona, for all the hype of it's old architecture and old urban bones, simply doesn't measure up. Actually, one could argue there is Old Quebec and old Montreal, and there's everything else.