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Originally Posted by Calgarian
The city in the GVR that surprised me most was New Westminster, great density and height for such a small little city.
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Well it used to be the capital of BC, and I believe was actually bigger than Vancouver until the railway was extended to Vancouver instead of New Westminster, so it has much more of a big city streetscape than one would normally expect from a suburb of 65,000. Downtown New Westminster, while small, probably has the more traditional "urbanity" that the easterners are bringing up:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/waferboard/5332610733/
http://www.thesalientgroup.com/news/category/new-westminster/page/4/
Of course, modern developments are unmistakly Vancouver-style:
http://ellenatkin.photoshelter.com/image/I00004bzzt428wB8
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