The Great Canadian Grit Thread - Page 3

MonkeyRonin · #41 Posted **Apr 5, 2008, 6:23 AM**

From http://www.streetsandsoul.com/scenes.html

While not incredibly gritty, these do represent the general "shabbiness" or "worn in" look prevalent throughout much of Toronto.

MonkeyRonin · #42 Posted **Apr 5, 2008, 6:25 AM**

Vancouver, from the same site.

MonkeyRonin · #43 Posted **Apr 5, 2008, 6:32 AM**

And now for Montreal's turn. Again from the same site.

Architype · #44 Posted **Apr 5, 2008, 8:41 AM**

Vancouver - (my own photos)
False Creek Flats

East Vancouver

Vancouver - Downtown East

Vancouver- Southeast False Creek, pre Olympic Village

East Vancouver

Vancouver - East Downtown

East Vancouver

Downtown Eastside Vancouver

francely57 · #45 Posted **Apr 6, 2008, 6:13 AM**

This thread cannot be complete without the mother of all silos, the half-kilometre-long Silo no 5! (it's been considered for the future UN headquarters...)

September 20, 2007 (Car-free day in Montreal)

1ajs · #46 Posted **Apr 6, 2008, 6:32 AM**

francely57 · #47 Posted **Apr 6, 2008, 6:53 AM**

On the edge of downtown Montreal, June 1, 2007

francely57 · #48 Posted **Apr 6, 2008, 6:58 AM**

Downtown Montreal! October 24, 2007

(it has later been repaired

)

KrisYYC · #49 Posted **Apr 6, 2008, 7:10 AM**

It'd be cool to explore an abandoned school or hotel (one that closed as a normal hotel, not one that was basically a crack house for 20 years).

Mille Sabords · #50 Posted **Apr 7, 2008, 1:36 AM**

Architype - wicked pictures. The one with the "Future is friendly" vans and the billboard with the rifle is haunting. The "Do not enter" one as well. Great composition and lighting, and awesome coincidence of people in the right places.

flar · #51 Posted **Apr 7, 2008, 1:01 PM**

Brantford, Wayne Gretzky's hometown:

vanman · #52 Posted **Apr 7, 2008, 7:37 PM**

Some Montreal I took photos of when I was there last Nov.

1ajs · #53 Posted **Apr 8, 2008, 7:29 AM**

shot this tonight at the end of my street this poor building had an eletrical fire in its roof last summer

and finaly someone is started to clean it out

MolsonExport · #54 Posted **Apr 8, 2008, 1:14 PM**

Haha! — Corps!

Next to a middle-eastern restaurant.

Good ol' Montreal!

MolsonExport · #55 Posted **Apr 8, 2008, 1:21 PM**

http://www.barraclou.com/memorial/dow/index.html

The old Dow Brewery (Montreal, immediately south of the CBD). They once put cobalt into the beer to increase the foam...years later, Dow drinkers were dying of cancer.

The area is being revitalized. Right next door is the old Lowney chocolate factory, which is being turned into condos.

le calmar · #56 Posted **Apr 8, 2008, 2:52 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I live almost next door, on Sanguinet!

Ayreonaut · #57 Posted **Apr 8, 2008, 2:58 PM**

Someone should go to Nanaimo and get some shots of the skinny people that hang out by the Salvation Army.

Nanaimo's got its share of grit, but I really like that city.