The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 352

WhipperSnapper · #**7021** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by TownGuy

Comes down to the lesser of two evils though. If you push the garbage back into the house you lose half the main floor sq ft. If you have a laneway you lose half your backyard to a garage.

Functionally it's nice not have to scrape ice, wipe off snow or come out to a baking hot car depending on the season, don't have to worry about vandals or theives. Also the storage is invaluable.

Most people I know that live in houses such as this park on the driveway. I understand the invaluable storage for recreation toys however, again, for most I know, they just hoard junk.

WhipperSnapper · #**7022** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 5:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Is that street named for Rod Black the sports guy? I though you had to be dead for them to name stuff after you.

No.

Blast from the past
Clinton and Gore, Toronto

TorontoDrew · #**7023** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

That's bad but at least it has real windows. Check out this garage house in Calgary with a fake window on top to make it look slightly more like it isn't solely designed for a car.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.9645761,-...XnIPiUdXvcc0Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

That's bad as well, but look at this one in Innisfville beach. 3 car garage.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.2978493,-...7R6POeVYGiOgZDEiLZn_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And here was my last Garage which was just a tiny car port that the new owners turned into a shed. I probably could have used a garage up there as we had real winters with tons of snow. I miss this house.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.348591,-7...IDMuNSg1um4t0NgykaW3A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

WhipperSnapper · #**7024** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:01 PM**

yeah, garages for hoarding

esquire · #**7025** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Is that street named for Rod Black the sports guy? I though you had to be dead for them to name stuff after you.

Haha, I was wondering if anyone would notice that... good eye

Yes, it's that Rod Black, the pride of Transcona.

TownGuy · #**7026** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

That's bad as well, but look at this one in Innisfville beach. 3 car garage.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.2978493,-...7R6POeVYGiOgZDEiLZn_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Geez what the hell? Look at that driveway!

O-tacular · #**7027** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

No.

Blast from the past
Clinton and Gore, Toronto

Why the fuck would a Canadian city name anything after an Ameican politician? Bizarre!

esquire · #**7028** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Why the fuck would a Canadian city name anything after an Ameican politician? Bizarre!

Typical Toronto, carving up and selling off its history in order to be more American! Next thing they'll do is name a big downtown tower after Donald Trump or something... for shame!

lio45 · #**7029** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:43 PM**

In the "honored way too early in his career" category, there's also Stephen Ave in Calgary under Harper

lio45 · #**7030** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Why the fuck would a Canadian city name anything after an Ameican politician? Bizarre!

The main commercial street in the entire city of Lévis is named President Kennedy Road (named after JFK, just so it's clear).

There's also an avenue just outside downtown Sherbrooke that is also named after JFK. It was a numbered avenue in the early 1960s and earlier, so that was easy to rename without ditching someone else's name.

I suppose if the politician in question is considered a prominent individual from the point of view of the planet in general, they could very well get honored in other countries.

There's a bridge in Montreal named after Charles de Gaulle, so it's not unheard of to have things named after foreign politicians.

niwell · #**7031** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Why the fuck would a Canadian city name anything after an Ameican politician? Bizarre!

I assume it's a joke since the streets in question have been named that for over 100 years. It is an amusing coincidence though.

Since street names tend to be put forward by developers in new areas we sometimes get some amusing choices. My personal favourite in Ottawa:

https://goo.gl/maps/mYz8G39wyFk

Very much named after the X-Files.

O-tacular · #**7032** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by TownGuy

Geez what the hell? Look at that driveway!

Still not as bad as the infamous unidriveway of NE Calgary.

TorontoDrew · #**7033** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

I assume it's a joke since the streets in question have been named that for over 100 years. It is an amusing coincidence though.

Since street names tend to be put forward by developers in new areas we sometimes get some amusing choices. My personal favourite in Ottawa:

https://goo.gl/maps/mYz8G39wyFk

Very much named after the X-Files.

Kind of like how the street names Clinton and Gore intersect in Little Italy in Toronto. Long before they were President and vice President together.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.654767,-7...RtwQEUh2-PPdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Acajack · #**7034** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

yeah, garages for hoarding

Shit! Another one! Not sure if you did it on purpose, but this is Mike Myers Drive!

Acajack · #**7035** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by lio45

There was a Barack Obama Avenue in East STL as early as several years ago (I know that from seeing the big standard green signs on the interstates indicating it, and it struck me as completely premature -- if we can't wait until he's been dead for a while, can't we at least wait until the guy is done with his mandate?)

That's equivalent to renaming a main Montreal artery "Denis Coderre boulevard" or "Justin Trudeau boulevard" right now. Insane.

This reminds me that I had a pseudo-argument with some Canadians on another forum earlier this year about naming stuff for people who are still alive. They all said it was common practice and I said it was uncommon and went against generally-accepted international conventions.

As I turns out, there is an international voluntary convention proposed by the UN that most places in the world follow, including Quebec via our Commission de toponymie. Basically, you don't name stuff for people still alive.

It's not followed as strictly in the other Canadian provinces, or in the U.S.

Which explains stuff named for people like Rod Black and Mike Myers who are still in the first half of their 50s!

A number of

esquire · #**7036** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:34 PM**

^ It's interesting, I find that for the most part things in Winnipeg tend to get named after either the old or dead, with one big exception: people from the sports world. There is all sorts of stuff in Winnipeg named after athletes (or in Rod Black's case, broadcasters), many of whom are not even middle aged yet.

Milt Stegall Drive, Jonathan Toews Community Centre, Clara Hughes Park, it goes on and on.

It does strike me as a little odd seeing a not even 30 year old athlete get a building named after them, but it happens. I suspect it's quite common in other Canadian cities... Edmonton has long had its Wayne Gretzky Drive, for example.

Acajack · #**7037** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:48 PM**

We still have some names of living people kicking around in Quebec. Like a Rue Stéphane or Rue Julie or Rue Berthe in a suburban subdivision named for a developer's kids or mother back in the 70s.

But the Commission really cracked down on this stuff 20 or 30 years ago.

They don't let anything slip by anymore.

MolsonExport · #**7038** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 7:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ It's interesting, I find that for the most part things in Winnipeg tend to get named after either the old or dead, with one big exception: people from the sports world. There is all sorts of stuff in Winnipeg named after athletes (or in Rod Black's case, broadcasters), many of whom are not even middle aged yet.

Milt Stegall Drive, Jonathan Toews Community Centre, Clara Hughes Park, it goes on and on.

It does strike me as a little odd seeing a not even 30 year old athlete get a building named after them, but it happens. I suspect it's quite common in other Canadian cities... Edmonton has long had its Wayne Gretzky Drive, for example.

Brantford has a ton of shit named after Wayne Gretzky.

TownGuy · #**7039** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 8:13 PM**

Another Innisfil Beach set. Strange garage/Church looking houses.

https://goo.gl/maps/Ee9f81gaT1m

O-tacular · #**7040** Posted **Aug 29, 2016, 8:16 PM**

I still wish that the petition to name Calgary's Sheperd landfill after Stephen Harper had taken off. Funny enough I started a petition to do that very thing about 5 months prior but it never took off like this one did.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/249/927/5...ll-the-%22stephen-j.-harper-landfill%22/