The Great Canadian Skyline thread for CMAs 1 million and under

[Nicko999]

Originally Posted by vid

Best Western Kenora, tallest hotel between Ottawa and Winnipeg. © Scienceduck

You mean between Toronto and Winnipeg?

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

You mean between Toronto and Winnipeg?

Toronto is (south) west of Ottawa. Actually Vid was wrong, London, Ontario is actually even closer to Thunder bay (in terms of west) and I'm pretty sure Sudbury has a 10-11 storey office block.

[c@taract_soulj@h]

Originally Posted by vid

Fort William/Port Arthur/Thunder Bay/Lakehead, 103,000 to 131,000 depending on how and what you count.


Port Arthur, 46,000 © rocket1964


Fort William, 50,000 © rocket1964


Current River, 4,000 © Geekent

Academy Heights/Lakehead University and College Heights, neighbourhoods of Port Arthur, also have skylines (2 or more tall buildings near each other) but there are no real vantage points for them so I don't have any pictures.

Kenora, 15,000:



Some aerial photos of apartment blocks and downtown © Ricky Wilkinson


Best Western Kenora, tallest hotel between Ottawa and Winnipeg. © Scienceduck

Just ONE tall building that stands out, to be built in T-Bay would be all I'd ask for. Hell even a government building but at least something new! The white sucker in the in Fort William (I think) is pretty cool and I like how Kenora is lined up on the water

Originally Posted by c@taract_soulj@h

Honestly...my take as to why Kitcheners skyline is so damn dull is cause K-W doesn't know where to focus it's development so they split it between both Kitch. or Waterloo...

Yeah, that's one big reason. Uptown Waterloo employs about 2/3rds as many people as downtown Kitchener.

And don't forget Cambridge, which is part of the regional population and has 3 downtowns itself. Even with the downtowns, the buildings are spread all over the place and are mostly commie blocks of a medium height. Add to that, a bunch of suburban apartment clusters, and it looks more like large swaths of Toronto's inner suburbs than any sort of concentrated downtown.

Originally Posted by c@taract_soulj@h

Has anyone seen Brantford on here lately? Or was the last time simply when you watched Silent Hill

If by recently, you mean a couple years ago, then yes. There isn't much of a skyline to speak of though. However, I wouldn't mind seeing some photos of buildings and streetscapes from Brantford.

[c@taract_soulj@h]

Originally Posted by Cambridgite

Yeah, that's one big reason. Uptown Waterloo employs about 2/3rds as many people as downtown Kitchener.

And don't forget Cambridge, which is part of the regional population and has 3 downtowns itself. Even with the downtowns, the buildings are spread all over the place and are mostly commie blocks of a medium height. Add to that, a bunch of suburban apartment clusters, and it looks more like large swaths of Toronto's inner suburbs than any sort of concentrated downtown.



If by recently, you mean a couple years ago, then yes. There isn't much of a skyline to speak of though. However, I wouldn't mind seeing some photos of buildings and streetscapes from Brantford.

As for streetscapes Brantford is black and white, well...when comparing downtown to the rest of some parts of town anyways. If I were to make a move there, I'd more so relocate to the North End off of Wayne Gretzky because I like how spread out it is OR south of the Casino which I just discovered recently as it seems like there are new developments being built.

New photos taken by me today.

From the pedestrian bridge connecting Victoria St. North with Shirley Ave, over the train tracks. A beautiful sunset.



These ones from the Ontario and Duke parking garage. These nighttime shots turned out better than I expected. Compared to how it looked in real life, the pictures are still crap (I need a better camera for night photos), but here they are anyways.












This set is from on top of the Market Square parking garage.

[Canasian]

Kenora, 15,000:



Some aerial photos of apartment blocks and downtown © Ricky Wilkinson


Best Western Kenora, tallest hotel between Ottawa and Winnipeg. © Scienceduck[/QUOTE]

I walked my dog in downtown Kenora on my way to Regina. It has a nice downtown. Nice shots, Vid.

[vid]

It is 11 storeys. Sudbury doesn't have any hotels over 11 storeys. Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie both have 9 storey hotels. If you go by road, Highway 17 in Kenora goes to Sudbury, then from Sudbury highway 17 goes to Ottawa. If you turn onto highway 69, that becomes highway 400 around Orillia then goes to Toronto. But you have to turn onto a different road. Technically, Ottawa is just down the street from Kenora, and Kenora is between Ottawa and Winnipeg. (17 becomes 1 in Manitoba.)

Highway 11, which once started in Toronto, does not go to Kenora.

To get to London without going through the US, you have to go through Toronto, unless you take backroads.

If you go east-west regardless of roads, its the tallest in Canada between Windsor and Winnipeg. (Windsor lines up with the midpoint between Sault and Suds)

[Metro-One]

Now this kind of debate is what these forums are all about!

[vid]

For the record, I think we should have limited this to CAs and CMAs with under 500,000, to exclude cities that are just separately governed parts of larger urban areas.

[Rico Rommheim]

Oh shit, I didn't read the hotel part, sorry.

[dennis]

Brandon, Manitoba, Pop. 41,511 (2006)


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[Metro-One]

How come all these small cities in the east (save Halifax) seem to have no new towers. All their recent growth seems to be in the form of sprawl.

[mmmatt]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

How come all these small cities in the east (save Halifax) seem to have no new towers. All their recent growth seems to be in the form of sprawl.

Cause we have lots of space, and its cheaper to build in the 'burbs...city government doesnt push urban nearly enough, and not many in the general public seem to really care

That being said in Moncton we have had a few new "tall" (from our small city perspective) buildings go up in the past 20 years.

- Blue Cross center, 9 floors - 1988
- City Hall, 6 floors - 1996
- Moncton Place, 6 floors - 1996
- Chateau Moncton, 6 floors - early 2000s
- Belmar Plaza, 6 floors - 2006
- Marriott, 6 floors - 2008

And we have a couple of towers in the 7-10 floor range that will be going up downtown in the next couple of years.

In Saint John the Mercintile Center @ 8 floors went up in the late 90's and they have a new hotel @ 10 floors going up right now. They also have a few sizable towers on the horizon.

In Fredericton there has been a few buildings in the 6-8 floor range go up since the early 90's and they have a new 6-7 floor office/convention center goin up as well.

Obviously nothing super impressive, but there is some movement

[mmmatt]

Ill throw in my little plug for NB

Saint John ~69,000 (metro ~124,000)

credit: wiki

Moncton ~65,000 (metro ~126,000)

credit: me

[Metro-One]

Me too, i love the word metro! (As one may tell from my name) hehe

[mmmatt]

CMA (Census Metropolitan Area) is the offical term used by Stats Canada for a metro area.

There are 33 CMAs in Canada, to be a CMA a metro area must have an "urban core" of around 100,000 people.

[MolsonExport]

Long live McKenzie seeds!

[touraccuracy]

Edit: didn't see the other thread for suburbs http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=163085

[Distill3d]

if someone can include Burlington, than the cities that make up Metro Vancouver (ie: Burnaby, North Vancouver etc) are fair game.


North Vancouver, city: 45,165 (photo credit: me)