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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
Yes, a railway city with a (formerly anyways) substantial industrial base and its corresponding urban proletariat and a history of trade unionism and socialist politics (not unlike many of the big cities of the Midwestern U.S.), these aspects being much different from Edmonton.
In terms of appearance, Whyte Ridge or Sage Creek for example, could be, at least for those months when there is no snow on the ground, anywhere in North America, the bland monotony of modern suburbia being ubiquitous. The older parts of Winnipeg to me much more resemble some Ontario cities, and in turn Kansas City, Omaha, or to a lesser drgree Saint Paul and Milwaukee rather than those cities further west. As I stated before, the rest of Southern Manitoba feels definitively western.
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Fair point about Winnipeg's industrial history.
But as far as built form, I guess I'd concede that it's maybe somewhere in between. Both Winnipeg and Hamilton have a large historic building stock, but Winnipeg and Edmonton both share that sprawly Prairie landscape that really is distinct from Ontario sprawl.
Like I see where you're coming from for sure, but I don't think it's a stretch to say that it may be more like Edmonton too.
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