A before/after at the same location, confirmed by the families who lived in the surrounding homes:
This area wasn't part of the Central Slum but was demolished later. The last surviving bits of it lasted into the 1980s.
It was still a rough part of town, though, and was the setting for the show Flowers Hill. Nearby Brazil Square, with its boarding houses, was infamous.
Only works once. People are just going to have to deal with the fact they could see any city in the federation in most threads in the Canada section. Most members are handling it fine.
Seriously, though, the Hamilton ones are probably my favourite in this thread. Depressing, shocking losses - but fascinating.
La Tour de la Bourse was completed in 1964. I'm guessing the red car to be a 64 Ford Fairlane 2 door hardtop and the blue convertible a Mercury probably 65. The orange car is too difficult to try to identify.
The old government buildings and hotels in Ottawa did look a lot more impressive before the giant boxy office buildings went up. I think the height restrictions contributed to this. They're basically the worst case possible, because they're too high to really preserve the dominance of the older buildings but short enough that the whole downtown area has filled up with buildings built right to the max. It would have been much better to either have a very low limit like 60 or 80 feet within a certain radius of the parliament buildings or allow developments to go up to 40 storeys or more, so that at least there wouldn't be a giant artificial blob of office space.
The Lord Elgin is overshadowed by boxy buildings all around it. That stretch of Elgin Street looks like it's more closely related to North York than the ceremonial core districts of other national capitals.
One of Ottawa's chief failure in attaining a true grandiose capital look was the failure to align Metcalfe with the peace tower in the way to create a terminated vista. I also agree with the 60's boxes, completed ruined some of the older gothic buildings on Wellington, which are all impressive in their own right. The Parliament buildings themselves are easily some of the world's most impressive in their respected categories.
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