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Originally Posted by Hali87
Having been to every province, I'd actually say T Bay and Regina are the least like Halifax out of all the cities I've been to. I guess there are areas that are a bit reminiscent of each, but they are not the "main parts". And actually, these areas are generally undergoing a lot of redevelopment. The cities between Lake Huron and the Rockies generally look/feel the least like the core parts of Halifax. Dartmouth is a bit of a different story, but reminds me more of Ontario than anything.
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One little thing about Dartmouth is that you find similar street names there to a lot of Ontario cities and towns: Dundas, King, etc. This is because those streets were laid out at the same time as the old city centres in Ontario. Early on in its history, Dartmouth was an industrial town, not unlike, say, Kitchener (historically the towns were actually about the same size), although it started to develop during the era of wind power and canals and growth petered out from the late 1800's until the Macdonald bridge was built, which was precisely the era when Ontario really took off. Dartmouth is a sort of failed industrial town that grew only because it was incorporated into a nearby city. Had it been on its own it would have ended up looking like New Glasgow or somewhere similar.
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