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Originally Posted by megadude

Yeah, doesn't feel right like how Stoney Creek, Glanbrook, Flamboro, Ancaster and Dundas were absorbed into Hamilton. There's parts of Dundas and Ancaster I go through that feel like they seamlessly blend into Hamilton but the outer parts are rural and very much feel like they should be something other than Hamilton. When I'm somewhere off of Hwy. 6 or Hwy. 8 north of Hamilton the city, as I often am when fishing or going to the Rockton Fair for example, in no way shape or form do I feel like this should be Hamilton.

Ontario has all sorts of types of municipalities and some are just gigantic. Timmins where I live is about three times the size in area of the current City of Hamilton. Timmins was the first amalgamated city with a huge land area in the province and it was done in 1973 by the Ontario government. I can fish and hunt in my city and be in remote areas without any other people around and quite a ways from any road. Logging and mining are done in many places within the city. There are two provincial parks and more lakes and rivers than I can count.