Post some pictures of your city! II - Page 38

FrAnKs · #**741** Posted **Dec 29, 2013, 11:46 PM**

Looks like Sweden or Norway to me !

Nouvellecosse · #**742** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 12:03 AM**

I love Lunenburg! It's definitely different than I expected prior to my first visit, but it's since become one of my favourite cities in the Maritimes.

Rico Rommheim · #**743** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 1:33 AM**

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Stellar. Though we (Montreal) mock it, I think Quebec does a good job at looking like a national capital.

FrAnKs · #**744** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 1:59 AM**

lol Well, We're not that ''big village'' that Montrealers thinks we are

... Meanwhile, we kept the charming side of a little village feel though.

Chadillaccc · #**745** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 2:14 AM**

Speaking of the look of a national capital... Kingston, Ontario

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Nor...hoto345136.htm

FrAnKs · #**746** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 2:30 AM**

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Speaking of the look of a national capital... Kingston, Ontario

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Nor...hoto345136.htm

Thats the feel I had when I came there in 2010. It's not just a Normal Ontarian city, it's one step over.

Obviously, it's a capital in the soul who lost his title.

SignalHillHiker · #**747** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 2:35 AM**

We may not look the part, but we actually were a national capital. So nener-nener-nener.

May 22, 1855 - February 16, 1934.

If you twist the truth a little, you can stretch it out to:

October 14, 1832 - March 31, 1949.

But only if you accept we were a nation under Representative Government (1832-1855, locally elected Parliament led by Governor appointed by London) and Commission of Government (1934-1949, direct rule from London, but with the continued status in name only of an independent country) .

Rico Rommheim · #**748** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 3:46 AM**

edit wrong thread

isaidso · #**749** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 9:55 AM**

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You think Victoria beats Montreal for his Europeanesque ambiance? I think you are completely wrong.

Saint John has a unique character but I cannot see similarities with any European cities.

I agree for Quebec City though.

Only if you think France is more European than England. People seem to think that cities with heavy English influence are 'historic' and cities with heavy French influence are 'European'. That's just ridiculous.

isaidso · #**750** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 10:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

Looks like Sweden or Norway to me !

A lot of New England and Maritime coastal communities look like that. They do have some similarities to Norweigian fishing communities I suppose.

PhilippeMtl · #**751** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 1:31 PM**

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Only if you think France is more European than England. People seem to think that cities with heavy English influence are 'historic' and cities with heavy French influence are 'European'. That's just ridiculous.

Montreal is more english influenced than french. Not sure to understand your point

Martin Mtl · #**752** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Only if you think France is more European than England. People seem to think that cities with heavy English influence are 'historic' and cities with heavy French influence are 'European'. That's just ridiculous.

Montreal looks more like London than Paris, even in Old Montreal. Victorian era architecture dominates here much more than french provincial like in Quebec city.

Boris2k7 · #**753** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 5:14 PM**

I was mulling about in the satellite imagery in Google Maps this morning and was inspired to take some screen caps of some of the views of the structures/infrastructure that we have here in Calgary...

... from SPACE!

Peace Bridge crossing over the Bow River

Glass roof of The Core Shopping Centre and Devonian Gardens

The Bow and its accompanying head sculpture

East Village Riverwalk and new streets, sidewalks, boulevards, etc.

Telus Spark Science Centre

SignalHillHiker · #**754** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 5:32 PM**

The satellite imagery for Calgary is so clear. Ours is very recent (they seem to update St. John's several times a year), but so blurry.

Anyhow, cool idea.

A couple of my favourite places in town...

The fucked up intersections of the Rabbittown neighbourhood, my home:

The wealthy rowhouse blocks of the Ecclesiastical District:

And, of course, the countless bars of the Entertainment District:

mistercorporate · #**755** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 5:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by PhilippeMtl

You think Victoria beats Montreal for his Europeanesque ambiance? I think you are completely wrong.

Saint John has a unique character but I cannot see similarities with any European cities.

I agree for Quebec City though.

St. John most definitely has a European ambience, having lived in the UK for many years the pics I've seen of St.Johns are very evocative. That being said, although there are a couple streets next to the port that look European, most of Montreal looks VERY North American, downtown Montreal reminds me of Toronto more than any other city I've been in.

Martin Mtl · #**756** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 6:48 PM**

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St. John most definitely has a European ambience, having lived in the UK for many years the pics I've seen of St.Johns is very evocative. That being said, although there are a couple streets next to the port that looks European, most of Montreal looks VERY North American, downtown Montreal reminds me of Toronto more than any other city I've been in.

It's more than just "a couple of streets", but you are right that Montreal looks North American more than European, and it makes sense, doesn't it ? That being said, I would never mistake downtown Toronto for downtown Montreal, for many reasons (even the suspended wires everywhere in Toronto makes a difference compare to Montreal's mostly buried lines). Their old stock of architecture are very dissimilar. Old Montreal and downtown Montreal are full of greystone buildings, big and small. In Toronto, it's more red or brown bricks. Obviously, the 1960's and 1970's concrete and International-style buildings are similar though. But the green glass towers, Vancouver-style, that now dominates many Toronto's landscapes are almost completely absent in Montreal.

someone123 · #**757** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 8:02 PM**

This could be said of all of the older provinces (colonies), and today we still have representative government in each of the provincial capitals but they are not really considered "national" capitals.

Responsible government in the mid-1800's sense had to do with the question of whether the people making the decisions were accountable to the colonial parliaments or to London. Newfoundland was actually the last of the established colonies in British North America to be granted responsible government (so if we say that this is sufficient to consider a place a "national capital", about a half a dozen towns in Canada have been national capitals). The same thing goes for the elected assembly in NF -- it was behind the times. Britain discouraged settlement and development of the island prior to the early-mid 1800's.

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

We may not look the part, but we actually were a national capital. So nener-nener-nener.

May 22, 1855 - February 16, 1934.

If you twist the truth a little, you can stretch it out to:

October 14, 1832 - March 31, 1949.

But only if you accept we were a nation under Representative Government (1832-1855, locally elected Parliament led by Governor appointed by London) and Commission of Government (1934-1949, direct rule from London, but with the continued status in name only of an independent country) .

SignalHillHiker · #**758** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 8:09 PM**

If it could be said of all other colonies, it would be. ;-)

We became fully independent as the Dominion of Newfoundland on May 22, 1855 - more than a decade before the Dominion of Canada did the same on July 1, 1867.

None of the other colonies or provinces did anything close.

someone123 · #**759** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

If it could be said of all other colonies, it would be. ;-)

We became fully independent as the Dominion of Newfoundland on May 22, 1855 - more than a decade before the Dominion of Canada did the same on July 1, 1867.

None of the other colonies or provinces did anything close.

Looks like the Dominion of Newfoundland dates to 1907: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Newfoundland

Canada wasn't called the Dominion of Canada in 1867.

The 1855 date is when the colony was granted responsible government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government

The idea of Newfoundland as a special case with greater independence than other parts of what is now Canada isn't very historically accurate.

SignalHillHiker · #**760** Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 8:16 PM**

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Canada wasn't called the Dominion of Canada in 1867.

Yes it was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of...on_of_Dominion

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Originally Posted by someone123

The 1855 date is when the colony was granted responsible government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government

The idea of Newfoundland as a special case with greater independence than other parts of what is now Canada isn't very historically accurate.

1907 is when the name was adopted. Absolutely nothing changes about our political situation since 1855. We were fully independent, under our own Prime Minister, since May 22, 1855.

And yes, we did have greater independence. Everything you did as a Canadian federation, we did as an independent country.