Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[J.OT13]

A few summer 2020 images from the Museum of Civilization.


https://twitter.com/CanMusHistory/status/1308501834575867905


https://twitter.com/Ottawa_Tourism/status/1293588814942871558


https://twitter.com/wrdodger/status/1291375283866677248


https://twitter.com/wrdodger/status/1287768039451238400

Here's one of the Museum from Ottawa:


https://twitter.com/CanMusHistory/status/1287023558535917568

[Acajack]

Great photos, though it's actually the Canadian Museum of History now. (Minor quibble.)

I always thought it should just be called the Museum of Canada, or the Canadian Museum. But History is still an improvement over Civilization.

For most of its history, until the mid 1980s IIRC, this institution was known as the Museum of Man. It was located in Ottawa not too far from Confederation Square. In the Lorne Building I believe.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Great photos, though it's actually the Canadian Museum of History now. (Minor quibble.)

I always thought it should just be called the Museum of Canada, or the Canadian Museum. But History is still an improvement over Civilization.

For most of its history, until the mid 1980s IIRC, this institution was known as the Museum of Man. It was located in Ottawa not too far from Confederation Square. In the Lorne Building I believe.

I honestly preferred Civilization. It was more distinctive. History seems too generic.

I stick with the old name, just like I often do with the Corel Centre, Hull, Convention Centre... Old habits die hard.

You're right, it used to be the Museum of Man, but was within the Victoria Building (Museum of Nature). The Lorne Building housed the National Art Gallery.

Another Ottawa shot:


https://twitter.com/apt613/status/1307115186940047361

[lio45]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I spy shacks near the railway tracks. Lower right.


ok, they look like they are brick.

I think the closest actual detached SFH wooden shacks (if we started expanding the radius from Montreal's CBD until hitting one) would be on the south shore.

There will be slum-ish wood-frame wood-siding buildings to be found in the inner core but all of them will be multi-story and multi-family.

[MolsonExport]

"Shackety Shack!! Don't Talk Back!"

[DAVEinEDMONTON]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

can the river be walked across there?

Yes you can. That section of the river is, at the moment, just a temporary pond.

The city has been constructing the LRT bridge just west of that area and created what we call the accidental beach as a result of the temporary shoring of the LRT bridge during construction. So for the last three years or so there has been this beach and that section of the river has in past years become a pond and eventually dried up to allow full access to the center of the accidental beach. It is only around one foot of water so it can be crossed.

[lio45]

No comments from me or a few others on how particularly un-navigable the North Sask is at Edmonton.

(I'm not the one who brought this topic up! )

Out of curiosity, are the Albertan rivers wildly fluctuating, debit-wise? I know it was like that in California when I lived there - completely dry in summer, but wild when the snow from the mountains is all melting at the same time.

[Coldrsx]

Yes, they fluctuate a fair amount.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by lio45

No comments from me or a few others on how particularly un-navigable the North Sask is at Edmonton.

(I'm not the one who brought this topic up! )

Out of curiosity, are the Albertan rivers wildly fluctuating, debit-wise? I know it was like that in California when I lived there - completely dry in summer, but wild when the snow from the mountains is all melting at the same time.

One heavy rain in the mountains can put our rivers at flood stage in a day or 2. This year the river have been quite high but no rain for the last 7 weeks have dropped the rivers.

Anyone using the rivers I suggest downloading this site. As a rower on the River here in Edmonton I helps to know the conditions before we head out.

Also there are 2 hydro dams upriver form Edmonton, the river does rise and fall at regular hours, No more than a 1/2 a meter.

https://rivers.alberta.ca/

[Martin Mtl]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFr51cYHIHm/

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFr51cYHIHm/

Even if Disney tried to replicate this it wouldn't look as perfect as that.

[TorontoDrew]

Its too bad your tallest is the premiers residence and not a hotel. I would love to stay in it.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Its too bad your tallest is the premiers residence and not a hotel. I would love to stay in it.

Congrats! You won the "most petty comment" of the week on the Canadian SSP forum. No small feat. Also, the Price building is the 6th tallest building in Quebec City. Once again, congrats!

And why would you want to stay in an office building ???

Try the Hôtel Clarendon instead. It's right next door :-)


Source

[whatnext]

Looking across Granville Island to the downtown peninsula. Cranes visible atop One Burrard Place and Grosvenor Pacific along with the newly completed Vancouver House (non-twisty side).

[IMG]skylinevan by whatnextyvr, on Flickr[/IMG]
(my photo)

[craner]

^ Thanks for identifying the buildings with cranes for us outsiders.

[q12]

https://twitter.com/GooseBayCO/status/1307852084805500929



https://twitter.com/alangdon17/status/1309917678535168002

[lio45]

Any time anyone expresses a liking of the Price Building, I think I'll remind them that had 1920s heritage protectionists prevailed, it would not exist :p

[ZeDgE]

Fall colors from r/calgary



Source: (jackass4224)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/j1pdfp/calgary_fall_evening_gotta_love_the_colors/

[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by lio45

Any time anyone expresses a liking of the Price Building, I think I'll remind them that had 1920s heritage protectionists prevailed, it would not exist :p

Heritage protectionists or NIMBY's? Two very different intents.

[itom 987]

I've never seen Calgary from that vantage point before, it looks suburb!