Post some pictures of your city! II - Page 100

Darkoshvilli · #**1981** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 2:19 AM**

Thats a sick view.

SignalHillHiker · #**1982** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 3:34 AM**

They love it.

And it might not look like it but they can and do walk to work downtown.

MonkeyRonin · #**1983** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 4:16 AM**

Summertime Toronto - chill as fuck.

...But way too many photos. So I've just hid my little collections from SSC here:

davidivivid · #**1984** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 4:28 AM**

2014-05-31 Verdure Printanière 3091 par pagarneau, sur Flickr

Rivière Beauport par patricestg, sur Flickr

Union Station Quebec par Magnum_Dynalab (Mike), sur Flickr

rousseau · #**1985** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 9:39 PM**

Dreamy shots of Toronto, Monkey. These are the kind of things that Toronto does uniquely well:

And this is just totally adorable:

I've never actually lived in Toronto, but if I'd grown up there and then moved somewhere else, this photo would make my heart go pitter-patter.

Rico Rommheim · #**1986** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 11:20 PM**

Crédit photo : Anne-Sophie Frican

Trevor3 · #**1987** Posted **Jun 9, 2014, 11:47 PM**

Corner Brook, NL - Fortunately for you guys, you can't see the smell of the air in Corner Brook.

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They draw the line here (That's a Bunker C pipeline running from a tank farm to the paper mill):

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But are fine with these:

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SignalHillHiker · #**1988** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 12:15 AM**

It's strange to think it's now the fourth-largest city in the province. I'm so used to it being basically second in my mind.

Darkoshvilli · #**1989** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 4:20 AM**

https://www.flickr.com/photos/969298...57645083954795

Rico Rommheim · #**1990** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 1:00 PM**

^Thanks for sharing those sensational photos. The downtown is starting to look like something dense, far out!

SignalHillHiker · #**1991** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 2:03 PM**

Members of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary are in Moncton today to show support for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the wake of the tragedy there.

RNC via Facebook

And they had a moment of silence at the regional RCMP headquarters on the outskirts on St. John's:

Nouvellecosse · #**1992** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

It's strange to think it's now the fourth-largest city in the province. I'm so used to it being basically second in my mind.

It's amazing to think the province even has four cities. In NS we only have two, Halifax and Sydney, with the rest just being towns of various sizes. And even Sydney is stretching things a bit.

SignalHillHiker · #**1993** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 5:59 PM**

Oh, they're not really. Not any moreso than anything in Nova Scotia.

We only have three officially - St. John's, Mount Pearl, and Corner Brook. You have to sustain a population of at least 20,000 and apply for city status here. It doesn't happen automatically, and it isn't as low as in other provinces (say, Saskatchewan's 5,000 limit).

Even if it's in the name, it's not officially a city unless those conditions are met. So it's officially, for example, The Town of Labrador City.

Our second-largest community, Conception Bay South, has never applied for city status. It's still a town. It's also an amalgamation of a half dozen or more smaller towns so it doesn't feel like a small city the way Mount Pearl and Corner Brook do.

Hali87 · #**1994** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:01 PM**

Technically Halifax and Sydney are both RM's, not cities. This is more of a governance/legal distinction, although it does influence the way the "cities" function. I was in Sydney recently and was actually surprised by how urban it is; it certainly feels just as much like a "city" as Moncton or Fredericton, for example. The layout of CBRM also makes it feel a bit more big-citylike, due to the freeway network etc. although there are relatively large gaps between Sydney, N. Sydney, Glace Bay and New Waterford.

The distinction between "towns" and "cities" is pretty arbitrary anyway. Markham and Oakville were (still are?) officially considered "towns", while many "cities" in NB and BC have populations under 15,000. Many other provinces would consider places like Truro and New Glasgow to be "cities".

Nouvellecosse · #**1995** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:02 PM**

@ SHH Is Mount Pearl Separate with its own down town and urban nabes or is it more of a suburban commuter city?

SignalHillHiker · #**1996** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:05 PM**

It's a mix of both, Nouvelle. It has its own amenities, but they're arranged in a car-dependent, suburban style. You could easily live in Mount Pearl and never have to come to St. John's for anything. It just doesn't have any urban areas in the sense we'd appreciate on SSP. On the other hand, its overall population density is higher than St. John's.

Commonwealth Avenue (right where Mount Pearl is written on this map) is the main commercial area. The big-box area is along Old Placentia Road at the edge of the city:

And regarding the HRM, etc. Technically, St. John's is the largest city in Atlantic Canada.

1overcosc · #**1997** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Oh, they're not really. Not any moreso than anything in Nova Scotia.

We only have three officially - St. John's, Mount Pearl, and Corner Brook. You have to sustain a population of at least 20,000 and apply for city status here. It doesn't happen automatically, and it isn't as low as in other provinces (say, Saskatchewan's 5,000 limit).

Even if it's in the name, it's not officially a city unless those conditions are met. So it's officially, for example, The Town of Labrador City.

Our second-largest community, Conception Bay South, has never applied for city status. It's still a town. It's also an amalgamation of a half dozen or more smaller towns so it doesn't feel like a small city the way Mount Pearl and Corner Brook do.

Huh, that means NL actually has a stricter definition of city than Ontario. Here, municipalities can generally become cities at 15,000, with some exceptions. Dryden, Ontario is legally a city and it only has 8,000 people.

Though the vernacular definition is a bit stricter. Many Ontarians, especially those from the GTA, will refer to anywhere smaller than 50k, sometimes even 100k, as a 'town'. I've even heard people (mostly Queens students from Toronto) describe Kingston (150k) as being not big enough to be a city.

1overcosc · #**1998** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hali87

Technically Halifax and Sydney are both RM's, not cities. This is more of a governance/legal distinction, although it does influence the way the "cities" function. I was in Sydney recently and was actually surprised by how urban it is; it certainly feels just as much like a "city" as Moncton or Fredericton, for example. The layout of CBRM also makes it feel a bit more big-citylike, due to the freeway network etc. although there are relatively large gaps between Sydney, N. Sydney, Glace Bay and New Waterford.

The distinction between "towns" and "cities" is pretty arbitrary anyway. Markham and Oakville were (still are?) officially considered "towns", while many "cities" in NB and BC have populations under 15,000. Many other provinces would consider places like Truro and New Glasgow to be "cities".

Markham redesignated as a city in 2012, Oakville is still legally a town.

SignalHillHiker · #**1999** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 6:41 PM**

Yeah, for historical reasons our system is quite basic.

Town and City, for example, are the only types of municipalities here. There is no such thing as a Hamlet or Village or anything that traditionally implies a smaller community than Town elsewhere.

From 1834 until 1888 the only level of government that existed in Newfoundland and Labrador was the national government in St. John's. There was absolutely no level of government between an individual in any given community and the Parliament.

In 1888, St. John's was allowed to incorporate - but not in any sense Canadians would recognize. The municipal council had no mayor, no real powers, and was led by a chairman appointed by the Prime Minister. It was basically an advisory committee that was simply tasked with letting Parliament know when things were going off the rails and begging them to act.

It wasn't until the 1920s that St. John's (and other communities) achieved a type of municipal government similar to what we have today, with a mayor and council elected by residents and with certain powers and responsibilities guaranteed by law.

And, even then, incorporation only became all the rage once we joined Canada and Canadian law applied, which was significantly more generous to municipalities than was our previous law.

Driving through rural Newfoundland you'll see countless towns with signs such as:

Welcome to Calvert
Settled 1615 - Incorporated 1978

kool maudit · #**2000** Posted **Jun 10, 2014, 8:15 PM**