Speaking of Canmore, we had security on a motel at my old job where the loan was in trouble and we were close to foreclosing on it. One of us was going to have to go out there for a visit and take care of some things but then covid hit. Nobody likes to deal with that but at least it would have been a good excuse to spend time in a mountain tourist town.
And yeah, those NL pics are postcards basically. Love how people there realize what a difference colour makes. That white church with the coloured trims is basically like a church I pass by in cottage country, which is a nice church, but doesn't particularly stand out. It would if it had those splashes of colour.
I would always take 27 at least a couple times a year to the cottage or back so I've seen the signs for Schomberg, but it's only been in the last 6 years or so that I've taken an interest in towns and villages. Part of the reason I stopped by a few years ago is because my cousin's best man said he ran a restaurant there with one of his partners. He was also a DJ and for some reason would get some big gigs like getting flown out to Bahamas or to San Fran by Google, etc. No idea why because I went to some DT Toronto clubs he was spinning at and it was pretty standard stuff.
Schomberg is technically in the GTA as it's in King city, just below the border with Simcoe County along Hwy 9. Up until a few years ago there were still towns or villages of substance, that fall within the bounds of the GTA I hadn't heard of before. But I have now visited all of them AFAIK after I went through Newcastle and Orono on the eastern end last week. I also scour google maps as soon as I know I'm going somewhere for personal or work reasons and figure out what spots I can pass through on the way or nearby. And places that only have a bunch of houses but no main street with shops and businesses I am not interested in. I tend to refer to those as hamlets or settlements instead of towns or villages even though technically they might be considered to be one of those last two.
But yeah, there's been a few mentioned on this thread in Eastern and Southwestern Ontario that I hadn't heard of before. If I'm ever going somewhere where those towns are within the vicinity of the route I'm taking, I will be sure to stop by.
Newcastle below. Not to be confused with Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the north of England. I wonder if some residents get the classic black and white striped kit from their namesake, Newcastle United. Ajax youth soccer used the Ajax of Amsterdam logo and kit. And I've professed my love of gateway signs here before. LCBO has one! And you gotta love it when a big old industrial building is maintained and repurposed and not just demolished. And of course sometimes new development is built around them like what's happening with Galt's Gaslight District.