Post some pictures of your city! II - Page 316

SignalHillHiker · #**6301** Posted **Apr 11, 2017, 9:47 PM**

It is in that sort of situation, yes... but the person who would benefit from burning it is unlikely to have done it. He's a good guy. So it may just be vandalism or an accident.

someone123 · #**6302** Posted **Apr 11, 2017, 10:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

It is in that sort of situation, yes... but the person who would benefit from burning it is unlikely to have done it. He's a good guy. So it may just be vandalism or an accident.

Not sure if this is what happened here but it's common for roofers to accidentally burn down old buildings when they're working with tar and blowtorches.

Martin Mtl · #**6303** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 3:51 AM**

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Urban recluse · #**6304** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 3:56 AM**

Beautiful.

G.S MTL · #**6305** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 4:01 AM**

Ahhhhh my city !! My Montreal !! Can't beat that.

isaidso · #**6306** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 6:44 PM**

We have a wonderful diversity of fabulous cities in this country. They're getting more numerous, bigger, and better each passing decade. Canada continues to have a very very bright future.

Laceoflight · #**6307** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 11:39 AM**

Aerial shots of Quebec

Le Quartier Latin, a subdistrict of Quebec City's old upper town

The Vieux-Québec, Old Town District by Alamy Stock Aerials, sur Alamy.com

La Citadelle

The Citadelle de Québec by Alamy Stock Aerials, sur Alamy.com

The neighbourhoods of Saint-Jean-Baptiste (foreground), Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Roch and Limoilou (background, from left to right to the top)

Panoramic View of Quebec City by Alamy Stock Aerials, sur Alamy.com

SignalHillHiker · #**6308** Posted **Apr 14, 2017, 3:25 PM**

Our first excursion around the bay for icebergs this year.

• Video Link

April 14, 2017 by R C, on Flickr

saintjohnirish☘ · #**6309** Posted **Apr 14, 2017, 3:48 PM**

Port SJ bits

http://paulsaulnier.com/photography/travel/saint_john_new_brunswick/

Rico Rommheim · #**6310** Posted **Apr 14, 2017, 4:41 PM**

^That must be the best shot of SJ I've ever seen.

isaidso · #**6311** Posted **Apr 14, 2017, 5:49 PM**

Nothing against Moncton but I wish all that growth were happening in Saint John instead.

TMA-1 · #**6312** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 1:18 AM**

Ottawa, on Good Friday 2017. The stitch is ratty in some places, I know.

Ottawa on Good Friday D823359 by Chuck Clark, on Flickr

vicdevelopments · #**6313** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 3:40 AM**

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Port SJ bits

http://paulsaulnier.com/photography/travel/saint_john_new_brunswick/

That's an awesome photo.

saintjohnirish☘ · #**6314** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 6:11 AM**

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Nothing against Moncton but I wish all that growth were happening in Saint John instead.

If you look at cities as products to attract newcomers, SJ is the more attractive urban centre to build on in terms of built form, history/culture. Mton is very new, very sprawled (an anomaly in the Maritmes) with not much of a core. But these things are temporal, and the tide will change as it does

Stanz · #**6315** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 7:24 AM**

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SignalHillHiker · #**6316** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 1:12 PM**

Such a beautiful city. So meaty.

Martin Mtl · #**6317** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 1:41 PM**

Atlantic Canada has pretty amazing medium-size cities with character and nice build-form.

1ajs · #**6318** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 2:11 PM**

this just came across my facebook feed wow gander

isaidso · #**6319** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 2:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by saintjohnirish☘

If you look at cities as products to attract newcomers, SJ is the more attractive urban centre to build on in terms of built form, history/culture. Mton is very new, very sprawled (an anomaly in the Maritmes) with not much of a core. But these things are temporal, and the tide will change as it does

Agree but like most things it comes down to money. People will go where the good jobs are. Saint John won't regain its title as NB's biggest city until it can give people an economic incentive to pick it over Moncton. History, culture, and a good looking downtown helps but is all for nought if people can't find satisfactory employment.

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Atlantic Canada has pretty amazing medium-size cities with character and nice build-form.

It's the oldest part of the country and had a number of cities that we're already quite substantial 100 years ago. In 1871 Saint John (Saint John + Portland) was the 4th largest city in Canada with 41,325 people. By comparison, Toronto had 56,092 people that same census year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Canadian_cities_by_census#1871

MonctonRad · #**6320** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 3:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

It's the oldest part of the country and had a number of cities that we're already quite substantial 100 years ago. In 1871 Saint John (Saint John + Portland) was the 4th largest city in Canada with 41,325 people. By comparison, Toronto had 56,092 people that same census year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Canadian_cities_by_census#1871

Atlantic Canadian cities were quite competitive with cities in central Canada at confederation, but a lot of our trade was with New England and we were kneecapped by Sir John A McDonald's protectionist "national policy". This policy was very successful in stimulating westward growth in the country, but the beneficiary of this policy and the momentum it created was southern Ontario and not the Maritimes, almost entirely for geographic reasons.

Saint John was thrown a further curve ball in the 1870's because of the great fire, and Halifax was brought (temporarily) to it's knees by the Halifax Explosion of 1917. The explosion of course was the greatest man made explosion before Hiroshima and was 1/7th as powerful as Hiroshima, so it was pretty devastating.

Both cities recovered from these disasters, but the events happened at a critical time of national growth and as a result, both cities lost a couple of decades of momentum and the torch was passed to central Canada.

The final kick in the nuts was CD Howes procurement strategy in World War Two which led to concentration of industry in central Canada to create efficiency in the war effort. Again, this may have made strategic sense, but it certainly has led to a sense of betrayal here in the east as far as the "national" government is concerned........

Halifax is now doing well, but Saint John continues to struggle. The mantle of economic leadership in NB has passed to Fredericton (government, universities, military, information technology) and Moncton (transportation, distribution, retailing, commercial and increasingly also banking, insurance, healthcare and education).

Saint John will have to find ways to broaden it's appeal beyond the Irving empire and heavy industry. The city has great built form and a nice natural environment, but is stifled by a small and constrained tax base. Metropolitan amalgamation is desperately needed in SJ to address this. An increased tax base is mandatory in dealing with the infrastructure deficits in the city........