The Hamilton City Centre was pretty dead, but really interesting to look at. What Victoriaville would look like if it were built in 1990 instead of 1980, and also 3 storeys tall:
There was a store called Holt which looked like The Bargain Shop but run by a pack rat (they had CRT TVs for sale!) and a really large furniture store with no one in it. The most memorable store in that mall though was the rug store, staffed by a lone 7 foot tall man (North African or Middle Eastern I assume) who looked really angry.