Downtown Canada

[Docere]

Originally Posted by Acajack

The easternmost part of Westmount is also arguably part of downtown Montreal, but... politics.

Westmounters are a funny bunch. They're adamant how they're not a suburb, yet when given the chance to prove their urban bonda fides they insisted on de-merging.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Docere

Westmounters are a funny bunch. They're adamant how they're not a suburb, yet when given the chance to prove their urban bonda fides they insisted on de-merging.

Obviously the reasons for that aren't primarily related to urbanity vs suburbanity, n'est-ce pas?

[Docere]

Indeed, almost all the communities that de-merged were English-speaking communities.

[Nouvellecosse]

Hmm... and in a stunning reversal of events, it turns out the anglophones were the true separatist all along! Dun dun duuuun!

[MolsonExport]

I wonder why.

[Nouvellecosse]

OUCH! Dang that 3rd rail is LIVE!! I gotta watch myself.

[Martin Mtl]

I find Westmount to really be it’s own thing separate from downtown. Westmount even have it’s own « main commercial street » with Sherbrooke street from Westmount parc in the east to Decarie in the West.

[Docere]

You'd think so. It is after all its own municipality.

[Kilgore Trout]

Westmount as a whole isn't part of downtown, but Greene Avenue, Westmount Square and Ste-Catherine just west of Atwater certainly is, in my books. It's like a much (much) more low-key version of Yorkville.

[Docere]

Westmount is pretty much the Montreal anglo equivalent of the in-town favoured quarter of Toronto, centered around Yonge and Avenue Rd. So a bit of Yorkville, Rathnelly, Forest Hill etc.

[Docere]

Discussion of what constitutes "downtown Toronto" on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comme...esnt_count_as/

About half agree with the official definition but a lot feel it should stretch further west and goes too far east.

(To some extent probably reflects the views of under 30s who think "downtown = trendy" hence the incredulous statements of "how can Cabbagetown be downtown but not Trinity Bellwoods and Ossington and Liberty Village?").

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

Westmount as a whole isn't part of downtown, but Greene Avenue, Westmount Square and Ste-Catherine just west of Atwater certainly is, in my books. It's like a much (much) more low-key version of Yorkville.

I agree. Once you hit Greene Ave, it is downtown.