The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[Dr Awesomesauce]

Originally Posted by niwell

Nope! Burlington is the City of Burlington. No wonder they freaked out - it's a legit city. I'd say the best suburban downtown in the GTHA. Less historic and pretty than (the Town of) Oakville, but way more functional.

Hmmmm caught ya!

[suburbanite]

Man Burlington's waterfront/downtown puts Oakville to shame in terms of urbanity. I'd say the Burlington Bay stretch of Lakeshore is also my favourite residential area between Toronto and Hamilton. Seriously underrated town.

[cyeg66]

So, when this Hammer circle jerk is complete, does anyone have more skyline pics or has this thread run its course? Thanks for all the good ones, by the way. I've got most of 'em saved. Lots o' different desktop backgrounds to pick from.

[Beedok]

I do often feel like the only person raised in Hamilton on here who doesn't have that sense of doom.

Anyway, skylines!
Mighty Val'd'or

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Val-dor_rue_principale.jpg

[Delirium]

Photo by Shannon Leigh Photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonleighphotos/15551111767/sizes/h/

[TownGuy]

Originally Posted by Beedok

I do often feel like the only person raised in Hamilton on here who doesn't have that sense of doom.

Anyway, skylines!
Mighty Val'd'or

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Val-dor_rue_principale.jpg

I know that there are exceptions to this rule but, generally speaking, why don't small towns in Quebec have the same old grandeur that basically every downtown in Ontario has? This could go for most of Canada actually. I realize the west is younger and that can explain that to a certain extent.

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[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

I know that there are exceptions to this rule but, generally speaking, why don't small towns in Quebec have the same old grandeur that basically every downtown in Ontario has? This could go for most of Canada actually. I realize the west is younger and that can explain that to a certain extent.

Presumably just a different social class of settlers with different standards and expectations combined with differing levels of importance of the settled areas at the time the central, commercial areas were built.

Harbour Grace was very nearly the capital of Newfoundland. It's a village with, by our standards, an impressive core. But it never became the capital and had little other purpose.

Bonavista was never meant to be a large, permanent settlement - but it gradually became one and its residents filled in the blanks as the town grew. Still, though, its public buildings aren't even as grand as the nearby village of Trinity, which never attracted more than a few hundred residents but was built with the intention of playing Bonavista's role.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

I know that there are exceptions to this rule but, generally speaking, why don't small towns in Quebec have the same old grandeur that basically every downtown in Ontario has? This could go for most of Canada actually. I realize the west is younger and that can explain that to a certain extent.

I can't comment for most cities, but I think Val-D'or is more or less equivalent to Timmins which doesn't have that stately of a downtown from what I can see.

[Rico Rommheim]

Val d'Or (literally: valley of Gold) is a mining town lost somewhere in the bushes of western Quebec. Timmins is a great comparison, or also think of a smaller Fort Mac without any semblance of a boom. It was also founded in the late 1920's and only became a town worth noting in the 40's, which makes it practically brand new by Quebec standards.

[TownGuy]

Ok. What about the rest of Quebec?

[Laceoflight]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Ok. What about the rest of Quebec?

Many medium sized cities like Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Joliette, Shawinigan, Saint-Jérôme, Drummondville, Victoriaville, Valleyfield, Thetford Mines, Aylmer, Hull, Trois-Rivières, Rivière-du-Loup, etc. have pretty decent downtown cores as a testimonial of their industrial pasts. Other smaller towns also actually have pretty nice downtowns : Sainte-Agathe, Saint-Jovite, Lachute, Nicolet, Coaticook, La Pocatière, Sainte-Marie, Baie-Saint-Paul, the Beaupré urban area, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu... and many others. Oh the other hand, we must not forget that many suburban towns have interesting old cores, and are often forgotten because considered as uninteresting : Longueuil, Saint-Lambert, Boucherville, Verchères, La Prairie, Lachine, Sainte-Thérèse, Terrebonne, Lévis (Lauzon, Saint-Romuald, Charny), Beauport... IMO, it's as interesting as what you could observe in any other province. It's just not known.

[PhilippeMtl]

All available income was invested in the churches. Also, for catholics, it is was not a good thing to show-off.

[niwell]

Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

Hmmmm caught ya!

It can be both! At least after as many beers as I had when typing that

[Boris2k7]

Can't recall if this one was posted or not. From Oct. 4th.


Calgary City Skyline by Acuraelin, on Flickr

[Brizzy82]

Downtown Winnipeg by bryanscott, on Flickr


Streets | Winnipeg, Manitoba by sublime photography & design, on Flickr



Winnipeg by Busologist, on Flickr



North View by bryanscott, on Flickr



Aerial view of Downtown Winnipeg by carter.biles, on Flickr

probably a repost, but gotta be one of the best Winnipeg pics of all time

Canadian Museum For Human Rights by bryanscott, on Flickr

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Beedok

I can't comment for most cities, but I think Val-D'or is more or less equivalent to Timmins which doesn't have that stately of a downtown from what I can see.

One Quebec town that I was impressed with is Rouyn Noranda..My first impression was that it felt more lively and larger than both Timmins and ValD'or..It's about the same size as Timmins (45,000 +/-), but it felt more modern, busier and built up. Both Timmins and Rouyn are hubs for their geographical location, yet Rouyn feels more bustling.

[Rico Rommheim]

Great Winnipeg shots. never realized how far the Fort Garry is from the core. Kinda looks isolated, hopefully more development will come this way.

[Brizzy82]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Great Winnipeg shots. never realized how far the Fort Garry is from the core. Kinda looks isolated, hopefully more development will come this way.

There's definitely a big gap between the Hotel Fort Garry and Portage/Main, but the hotel isn't really that isolated. There are quite a few buildings around it, and the tallest currently under construction (Heritage Landing, 25 floors) is sort of near it.

Took these the other day, you can see the tower crane at Heritage Landing





Might be hard to tell where Hotel Fort Garry is in these pics because it's hidden, but it's directly to the north (towards downtown) of that tall building with the revolving restaurant on top.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Beedok

I can't comment for most cities, but I think Val-D'or is more or less equivalent to Timmins which doesn't have that stately of a downtown from what I can see.

This. Frontier mining towns with their heydays in the 1960s look as you would expect them to look. It is actually not that bad...compared to say, downtown Brantford.