Canadian Skyline Thread III

[Rico Rommheim]

DSC01044 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01043 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01041 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01039 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01038 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01035 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01036 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


DSC01037 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

[giallo]

Beautiful shots, Rico!

[GeneralLeeTPHLS]

Beautiful images. Those (hills?) are really cool to see as a backdrop to the skyline.
I think DSC01036 may be my favourite of the set, it almost reminds me of LA in a way where the most notable core buildings are clustered with a bit of a step-back happening in a radial manner. It's a poor reference to another city that couldn't be more different from Montreal, but perhaps theres some loose merit in it.

[Coldrsx]

https://twitter.com/kmoorephotos/sta...56742035538326

[someone123]

Halifax seen from Dartmouth


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[zoomer]

Originally Posted by someone123

Halifax seen from Dartmouth


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Yah, when I was scrolling down that my first thought at first - looks like Victoria from certain angles. Nothing wrong with Coldsrx stating that, and hopefully it should be seen as a huge compliment to Halifax, no? It would be if stated the other way. Doesn't mean that the cities are the same or that one is better the other.

An old picture from Flickr from much further out than 0.5 km, but you can see what Coldsrx is talking about:

Victoria, BC by Benjamin Schnetzler, on Flickr

and a couple more:

Victoria and Mt. Baker on a perfect Day by Lindsay Mac, on Flickr

Also an older picture of Halifax, but the skyline pics we normally see here are from this angle - which looks nothing like Victoria. Now if a Victoria photo was posted that looked like this (not possible) then we could say it was Halifaxesque.

Halifax Skyline-2 by Aussie2504, on Flickr

[Coldrsx]

Victoria-esque.

[Nouvellecosse]

^ While the two aren't similar, if they were Victoria would be Halifax-esque rather than vice-versa considering it's the older and larger of the two

[Coldrsx]

Both harbour/water cities with small-ish skylines, character places and significant tourist draws... I'd say very similar.

When I looked at that, I thought far more Victoria than Halifax and so I stand by my comment.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Both harbour/water cities with small-ish skylines, character places and significant tourist draws... I'd say very similar.

When I looked at that, I thought far more Victoria than Halifax and so I stand by my comment.

Halifax does not have a smallish skyline for its population, and the other traits are the most basic of details that countless cities share. Although I realize when people make these silly type of superficial comparisons they generally know it annoys people and are just trying to provoke. So I shouldn't take the bait.

[giallo]

How is saying that 'Halifax looks like Victoria from that angle' provocative? The two cities look nothing alike, but I can definitely see where Coldrsx was coming from with his comparison.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by giallo

How is saying that 'Halifax looks like Victoria from that angle' provocative? The two cities look nothing alike, but I can definitely see where Coldrsx was coming from with his comparison.

It's provocative because there's been a lot of discussion on the topic on here over the years and people from Halifax including Someone123 and me have explained why it doesn't make sense numerous times. And while I can't speak for anyone else, I think I've made it clear how annoying I find it. So it's hard to believe that a person who's been here long enough to know all that would make a comment that says nothing about the image other than an irritating reference to another city would be intended to do anything other than irritate.

Plus, the convention for saying that one thing resembles another has long been that the original, larger, or otherwise more prominent of the two does is not the one that "resembles" the smaller, newer or less prominent. So saying "Well I thought of the smaller/newer thing when looking at the larger/older one" just tends to mean one is more familiar with the smaller/newer one. But that's a characteristic of the person making the comparison rather than of the things being compared. So it's irrelevant.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Plus, the convention for saying that one thing resembles another has long been that the original, larger, or otherwise more prominent of the two does is not the one that "resembles" the smaller, newer or less prominent. So saying "Well I thought of the smaller/newer thing when looking at the larger/older one" just tends to mean one is more familiar with the smaller/newer one. But that's a characteristic of the person making the comparison rather than of the things being compared. So it's irrelevant.

At the risk of being annoying, but is Halifax larger than Victoria?

The Capital Region (Victoria) has a population of 415 451 over an area of 2340 sq km's. Halifax Regional Municipality has a population of 439,819 over an area of 5,475.57 sq km's. That's a larger population, but in an area that is over twice the size of the Capital Region. If you were to expand the Capital Region to the same area as Halifax Municipality, you would be taking in Nanaimo, which is 115 000 people, and the areas in between - about 600 000 people.

For urban area, Victoria - 397 237/215.88 sq km's. Halifax - 348 634/238.29 sq km's.

An good case could be made for Victoria actually being the bigger city. (Sorry. I get caught up on numbers too much probly).

[q12]

Originally Posted by logan5

At the risk of being annoying, but is Halifax larger than Victoria?

Yes, Halifax's population estimates for 2023 is likely to be over 500,000 as the CMA is projected to have added 30,000 people in the past year above the 2022 estimate of 480,000.

Surrounding Halifax's urban and suburban core there are around 700,000 residents (within a one hour drive from the edge of the urban core all connected by freeway):

[logan5]

That's a bit vague. Can you add some Victoria numbers? I would imagine Victoria grew as well.

[q12]

Nova Scotia - Halifax waterfront by Graham Hart, on Flickr

Halifax by Henry Dowling, on Flickr

Hello Halifax NS by Randy Officer, on Flickr


by nadonou on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2p1vVuv


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by nadonou on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2p1vVuv


by nadonou on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2p1vVuv

[someone123]

Originally Posted by logan5

An good case could be made for Victoria actually being the bigger city. (Sorry. I get caught up on numbers too much probly).

Most of the land in the Halifax CMA or HRM is uninhabited. The eastern 2/3 or so of the land has about as many people as moved to the city in 2022. There isn't some large rural population bloating the size of the metro.

People in Nanaimo don't commute to Victoria at high rates so it wasn't included in the CMA.

[MattBerryOfficial]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

It's provocative because there's been a lot of discussion on the topic on here over the years and people from Halifax including Someone123 and me have explained why it doesn't make sense numerous times. And while I can't speak for anyone else, I think I've made it clear how annoying I find it. So it's hard to believe that a person who's been here long enough to know all that would make a comment that says nothing about the image other than an irritating reference to another city would be intended to do anything other than irritate.

Plus, the convention for saying that one thing resembles another has long been that the original, larger, or otherwise more prominent of the two does is not the one that "resembles" the smaller, newer or less prominent. So saying "Well I thought of the smaller/newer thing when looking at the larger/older one" just tends to mean one is more familiar with the smaller/newer one. But that's a characteristic of the person making the comparison rather than of the things being compared. So it's irrelevant.

Go touch grass.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by MattBerryOfficial

Go touch grass.

Thank you for your incredibly productive contribution.

[MattBerryOfficial]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Thank you for your incredibly productive contribution.

Based on your bizarre irritation at a reasonable comparison of two coastal cities of 400k people, I do think you need to take a break from the internet.