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Old Posted Nov 20, 2016, 7:29 AM
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Trump and Bay-Adelaide 1 are just poking through between FCP and Scotia. 1KW is peeking out from behind Commerce Court. INDX is barely visible behind (barf) E&Y. I can't see 88 Scott at all.
My point is that those who don't know any better (unlike us skyscraper geeks) would be hard-pressed to discern much of a difference between the present view and that of 25 years ago.
Agree.
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I took this already few years ago but never stitched the panorama together before today and boy it came out nice! I love summer in Vancouver.

     
     
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2016, 12:47 AM
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Trump and Bay-Adelaide 1 are just poking through between FCP and Scotia. 1KW is peeking out from behind Commerce Court. INDX is barely visible behind (barf) E&Y. I can't see 88 Scott at all.
My point is that those who don't know any better (unlike us skyscraper geeks) would be hard-pressed to discern much of a difference between the present view and that of 25 years ago.
Yep. Really shows how incomplete a picture one view gives.
     
     
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2016, 2:41 AM
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2016, 8:03 AM
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Where is Mont Saint-Bruno? It should be in between. Regardless, the string of mounts running east from the city are very interesting/beautiful formations. I'm always surprised they are not better known.
     
     
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2016, 1:09 PM
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Where is Mont Saint-Bruno? It should be in between. Regardless, the string of mounts running east from the city are very interesting/beautiful formations. I'm always surprised they are not better known.
Mont Saint-Bruno is not that far up north west. Mont Saint-Grégoire is the outlier of the Montérégiennes hills, the one that's not in line with the others.
And by the way, they are VERY WELL known in Québec ! They are major landmarks in the flat Saint Lawrence plain


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Old Posted Nov 22, 2016, 4:43 PM
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2016, 7:05 PM
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2016, 7:16 PM
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Those are really cool photos of the Quebec landscape.

It looks like a flat prairie landscape, but with randomly scattered mini-mountains bubbling up out of nowhere. I also like the random areas that have been kept forested.
     
     
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Like i said, that is a typical construction technique for almost every residential tower in North America and probly the world.

If you look on balconies of any concrete tower built downtown, you will see soffit outlets lined up in a row allthe way up the balconies. Those are the outlet points for kitchen exhaust and bathroom exhaust from in slab duct on every residential floor. Most of these slabs that contain slab duct are 8 inches thick. The exception where there uis no slab duct might be very tall concrete towers, where too much slab duct would weaken the structure to the point of possible structural failure.

One advantage might be lower floor to ceiling height, maybe yielding an extra floor or 2. Probly faster to install too.
This is correct, I've worked on concrete towers that have in slab ducting in Calgary. This is done when they squeeze as many floor plates as possible into a tower and having the bulkheads below the slabs would reduce the ceiling height.
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Old Posted Nov 23, 2016, 3:12 AM
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Mont Saint-Bruno is not that far up north west. Mont Saint-Grégoire is the outlier of the Montérégiennes hills, the one that's not in line with the others.
And by the way, they are VERY WELL known in Québec ! They are major landmarks in the flat Saint Lawrence plain


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Thanks. For no good reason my brain read "Mont St-Hilaire" when my eyes saw "Mont St-Gregoire." I always forget about the latter, maybe because I never went there. I also never new the collection had a name. Such a cool formation. I know they are well known landmarks in Quebec - I just think they should be better known in general. Mount Royal is so famous across the board, but most people not living locally (in BC for example) don't know it is one amongst many. Anyway, thanks again.
     
     
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Might be a totally stupid question so forgive me in advance:
Are those Montreal area mountains long extinct volcanoes ?
     
     
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Might be a totally stupid question so forgive me in advance:
Are those Montreal area mountains long extinct volcanoes ?
no, to give you an idea, it is believed that the rocks of the Montérégiennes were buried under about 2000 m of rocks when they were put in place, so any volcanic edifice has had ample time to disappear.100 million years
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Each hill in the chain consists of an erosional remnant of Cretaceous intrusive igneous rock and associated hornfels, which are more resistant to weathering than the surrounding sedimentary rock.
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intrusions that never breached the surface in volcanic activity
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