Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

So glad we are still getting new towers, there is far too much ugly in there still...

Just like any (and every) other city. I'm not concerned at all. I love the mixed aesthetic of the Beltline.

[mistercorporate]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

So glad we are still getting new towers, there is far too much ugly in there still...

They're not so bad, one of these days these will be looked at as beautiful classic architecture. 50 years from now, but still.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

So glad we are still getting new towers, there is far too much ugly in there still...

I was going to say the same thing. Montana is awful. I guess it breaks up the commie blocks though.

[Laceoflight]

Magnificient Vancouver ! It looks huge...
Great pictures of Montréal and Toronto too !


Here's Québec, perched on its rock.


Québec en vacances par Jean-Pierre Lapointe, sur Flickr

[Wpg_Guy]

Winnipeg


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[someone123]

Halifax from a cruise ship









Bonus picture: dolphins on the approach.


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[isaidso]

That 2nd Halifax photo you can still see trees stripped bare from Hurricane Juan.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by isaidso

That 2nd Halifax photo you can still see trees stripped bare from Hurricane Juan.

The city really dropped the ball on Point Pleasant after Juan. There was a planning process and there were various options presented in terms of the level of intervention and investment that would happen. The city opted for a "natural", i.e. lazy/cheap approach that resulted in some nice renderings but very little investment. The trees have grown back significantly by now but a lot of potential was wasted.

The forest of Point Pleasant was actually never natural to begin with. A lot of the trees were imported (including Douglas firs from BC). Maybe that is why they were damaged so much in the hurricane. The native forest has evolved to recover from being hit regularly by hurricanes and tropical storms.

Before it became a park it was used by the military and the area was stripped of trees to provide sight lines from the fortifications. The park was created in the late 1800's or so, and that's when the gates were built, the cast iron lamps were installed (imported from Scotland), etc.

[TorontoDrew]

[IMG]Downtown Court by kotsy, on Flickr[/IMG]

[megadude]

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Winnipeg



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Why no docks/boats for the houses backing onto the river?

Many of the rivers I fish by boat are in valleys and even those have docks. Mind you, takes a good hundred steps to go up and down, which is why I almost never see those people enjoying their docks or shoreline backyards.

Is that a steep, rocky section of the shoreline?

Virtually all of Lake Ontario doesn't have docks for those houses backing onto it. No idea why.

Wonder if it's not allowed by law.

[Echoes]

Absolutely love the Halifax skyline mixed in with the port, the suspension bridge, and industrial elements like the grain silos and the smokestacks. It's all there.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by megadude

Why no docks/boats for the houses backing onto the river?

Virtually all of Lake Ontario doesn't have docks for those houses backing onto it. No idea why.

Not sure why it's like that on that river but as for Lake Ontario, most of the shorline is not sheltered so docks would get destroyed in no time.


This was near Bluffers Park September 24th.
[IMG]The Cove, Sept 2018 by Viv Lynch, on Flickr[/IMG]

[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by megadude

Virtually all of Lake Ontario doesn't have docks for those houses backing onto it. No idea why.

Docks are typically for swimming or boating and most people will have their boat at the local marina and aren't going to be doing much swimming off the dock in that water.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by suburbanite

Docks are typically for swimming or boating and most people will have their boat at the local marina and aren't going to be doing much swimming off the dock in that water.

No it's due to the rough water conditions that occur frequently. The same reason you won't find docks along un-sheltered ocean waters. Of the few homes along the lake that have docks the majority are more like mini piers with hoist to pull their boats out of the water.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Magnificient Vancouver ! It looks huge...
Great pictures of Montréal and Toronto too !


Here's Québec, perched on its rock.


Québec en vacances par Jean-Pierre Lapointe, sur Flickr

I've said it before and I'll say it again. One of the coolest skylines in the country no doubt.

[megadude]

Rough waters is definitely one of the reasons. And I've heard of some people having that pulley system for boats to bring smaller craft up on shore. And there are floating docks. But I do wonder if there's a law. For instance, in many of the lakes in cottage country, no one is allowed to build a new dock due to reasons of shore erosion or something like that.

I've passed by some of the mansions in Oakville when on my boat and they had no pier or floating dock or whatever. I figured that those people are so rich that they'd have at least something. But nada. So I'm wondering if it's law.

And ya, lots of them keep at the marina. Definitely wouldn't want their rig being rocked like crazy up against their dock. But I thought from all these people, at least some might have like 14 foot aluminum fishing boats or pleasure craft on a floating dock or in a small boathouse on pulley system like my bro in law has on Buckhorn in the Kawarthas.

During the warmer months, most of the time you could easily go out for a spin or go fishing for lakers and salmon. It's calm enough. So I figured boathouse plus floating dock would work.

But maybe it's not allowed, which would irk me if I were super rich and had a mansion worth 8 figures on the lake and I couldn't even go use my boat on a whim. Would have to make the drive to marina, park, then take what seems like forever to crawl out of there at a snail's pace to get to the lake. Then do it in reverse.

Edit: Did a quick satellite view search and found four docks in a small stretch of the shoreline. Two had boathouses, other two were just short docks. One was definitely pulley system.

Should also note, some parts of shore could be too shallow, but from what I've seen when on my boat, most the shore is deep enough from where the end of an average dock would sit.

[TorontoDrew]

I can't see it being a law, but their must be some guidlines in play, like you need to build a break wall, or you dock must be a solid foundation or retractable and high off the water. If you look along the shore you can see some examples of workarounds.

Look here: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4654299,-79.6439492,131m/data=!3m1!1e3
One mansion has some sort of rail system to pull a large boat out of the water, the one next door built it's own break wall. toronto is located where it is now thatnks to the safety of the inner harbour and not elsewhere along the lake shore.

[megadude]

Good examples. Considering these people are so rich, I'm wondering why more haven't done something like this.

I thought maybe it became law decades ago and only people with existing docks could keep them. And if existing docks happened to break down over time, too bad, can't replace with new. Maybe only do minor repairs. Could have sworn I saw something like this in cottage country, which has to do with erosion.

However, that one with break wall doesn't look all that old.

[TorontoDrew]

The one with the break-wall looks like the house was torn down and it's lot is up for redevelopment. Now no more about docks and back to skylines.

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[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

No it's due to the rough water conditions that occur frequently. The same reason you won't find docks along un-sheltered ocean waters. Of the few homes along the lake that have docks the majority are more like mini piers with hoist to pull their boats out of the water.

Right... because people don't dock in an unsheltered location, hence the marina.