The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by Symz

There are lots of duplicate names of cities around the world. What makes London and London so special?

Edit, just to elaborate on this topic a bit more. You talk about 'branding' well London is branded at this point with that name, even if it is in Ontario. If you call London, Ontario something else now, poof there goes the branding it did have (even if it shares the same name as many other places around the world).'

If you changed London, Ontario to Treeville, Ontario tomorrow, no one would know where you'd talking about, so in essence, London, Ontario is already branded.

London, Ontario is like the 'no name' brand to the actual London. Being the copycat to such a well known city is so incredibly lame.

Yes, this Ontarian city is of course branded within the province. My point is that name distinction is more favourable for a potential international presence. And considering places named 'Windsor' are as common as pennies, you may consider a change as well; although, I don't recommend returning to 'Sandwich'.

[Chadillaccc]

Windsor Ontario is the largest and most well known City under that name on Earth, so I'm pretty sure they're set. Unless they need to have a tiny-dick contest with Windsor Castle to see who's better.

[haljackey]

Berlin changed it's name to Kitchener.

I wish London changed it's name as well. I'm for a name change, but the vast majority are not.

By the way, London has had a ton of diagrams added to it's drawings list. Check it out!

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=54529833

[north 42]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Windsor Ontario is the largest and most well known City under that name on Earth, so I'm pretty sure they're set. Unless they need to have a tiny-dick contest with Windsor Castle to see who's better.

Thanks Chadillaccc, I was just about to state that fact myself.

[Ayreonaut]

Well I guess we might as well rename all but one of each of the following then:

London
Newcastle
Perth
York
Syracuse
Toledo
San Jose
Cairo
Moscow
Vancouver
Halifax
Athens
Rome
Melbourne
Springfield
Calgary
Victoria
Kingston
St. Petersburg
St. John's
Alexandria
Barcelona
Cordoba
Valencia
Santa Cruz

Well, you see where I'm going. Renaming London simply because it's not the only city with that name is a little ridiculous. If its residents are telling Europeans where they're from, they can say "I'm from a city in Canada called London". I have to do that with Calgary anyway.

[MexiQuebecois]

How about Londombia? All latin americans call it like that already since it's packed with Colombians

[MountainView]

Downtown Ottawa

[someone123]

It is a little unusual to have a substantial city named after a major world city. Victoria, St. John's, Kingston, and Halifax are named after people related in some way to the founding of those settlements. Calgary in Scotland is very small and seems obscure even in the UK.

I'm not sure it makes sense to renamed London, Ontario at this stage, but that's certainly been done before. It happens frequently these days when municipalities are amalgamated.

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by someone123

It is a little unusual to have a substantial city named after a major world city.

Not that uncommon in the Spanish-speaking world, but definitely true for English-speaking places.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Not that uncommon in the Spanish-speaking world, but definitely true for English-speaking places.

Really? What are some examples?

The most common duplicate names are the names of saints.

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by someone123

Really? What are some examples?

The most common duplicate names are the names of saints.

Valencia, Cordoba, and Barcelona are all cities in South America as well as in Spain.

Then of course there's Toledo, Ohio, but the original isn't very large anymore.

[kool maudit]

the windsor in berkshire is far more well-known than windsor, ontario. north americans are so size/population-y sometimes.

[caltrane74]

You mean the castle or the town?

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Symz

What's the big deal?

London, England

London, Ontario

It's like making a big deal about naming your kid Jason if there's a Jason that lives down the street. They have last names to distinguish them apart.

I don't personally see it as a big deal.

"london" means "london, england."

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Symz

What's the big deal?

London, England

London, Ontario

It's like making a big deal about naming your kid Jason if there's a Jason that lives down the street. They have last names to distinguish them apart.

I don't personally see it as a big deal.

"london" means "london, england."

[bolognium]

What a dumb topic of conversation.

I'd hate to see London, Ontario change its name just to try and break away from London, England. Even if we had a unique name we're still just a small-time city down the road from Toronto. No one outside of Ontario really knows or cares that we exist, so why should we bother trying to rebrand our city? London will continue chugging along as it always has, but it'll never be a global player.

Edit:

Originally Posted by RyeJay

London, Ontario is like the 'no name' brand to the actual London. Being the copycat to such a well known city is so incredibly lame.

You must be trolling. This is by far the most stupid thing I've read all week. Do you honestly believe the Europeans settling here in the early 1800's chose the name for tacky tourism purposes or something? It's not like a 70's city council picked the name "London" to try and reinvent some dying town, we've had this name for 200 years.

[north 42]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

the windsor in berkshire is far more well-known than windsor, ontario. north americans are so size/population-y sometimes.

It's a suburban town of 28,000 people, I know it's affluent, but I feel that Windsor Ontario is more important than some small suburb in England.

[le calmar]

There is a royal residence in Windsor, England. Is this not also the name of the royal family? There is also a Windsor in Quebec near my hometown. I would refer to this one as a shithole.

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by bolognium

What a dumb topic of conversation.

I'd hate to see London, Ontario change its name just to try and break away from London, England. Even if we had a unique name we're still just a small-time city down the road from Toronto. No one outside of Ontario really knows or cares that we exist, so why should we bother trying to rebrand our city? London will continue chugging along as it always has, but it'll never be a global player.

Edit:


You must be trolling. This is by far the most stupid thing I've read all week. Do you honestly believe the Europeans settling here in the early 1800's chose the name for tacky tourism purposes or something? It's not like a 70's city council picked the name "London" to try and reinvent some dying town, we've had this name for 200 years.

Your opinions about the stupidity of any topic are not my concern.

The earlier point I made about brand names, to save you the trouble of scrolling back and actually reading the conversation of which you so strongly disapprove, is that municipal names are like brand names of corporations. With London, Ontario growing and hopefully becoming more significant, as I would love to see, I expressed that one day, perhaps, the city claim an identity not already taken by a city that outpaces it.

If Toronto were named 'New York', then it would be constantly at odds with the American city's identity.

But hey, if London, Ontario will always remain an insignificant small-town just "down the road from Toronto" then by all means don't change a thing.

Think small

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

"london" means "london, england."

It does indeed.