Post some pictures of your city! II

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by The Great Scaper

The Parliament Buildings...
Victoria B.C. Canada by thegreatscaper, on Flickr

BC's legislature is one of my favourites
Victoria, you're looking good

Saskatoon is easily one of the most underrated cities in Canada, imho.

[TimB09]

Was just going to say like the poster above, Saskatoon is underrated for Canadian cities. Beautiful for sure.

[SignalHillHiker]

Jesus, what a photographer.

This is Brigus, a small town northwest of St. John's. Hilariously, the name is just a centuries-long bastardization of "Brick House".

What I love about Brigus is, when you're down in it, it's gorgeous. The river is walled, there are tunnels through all the hills, every second house is a gorgeous heritage building. It's spectacular in that regard. In the few places on the island with an Irish majority (such as the Avalon), the English were forced to the less desirable fringes. But they were masters at civilizing the landscape. Brigus is perhaps the finest example of that. Just bare, rocky, tundra like fucking Baffin Island, but everywhere they put a house and cultivated around it, lush countryside. They really did amazing things.


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[Martin Mtl]

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[Hali87]

The Bedford Highway - 102 - 101 - Sackville Drive interchange in Halifax's northern suburbs:


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[phone]

Originally Posted by Hali87

The Bedford Highway - 102 - 101 - Sackville Drive interchange in Halifax's northern suburbs:

Of all the highway interchanges to have existed, this is certainly one of them

[Hali87]

Purdy's Wharf + Ferry terminal


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[rousseau]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

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Beautiful collection of Montreal photos. Who wouldn't want to live in a city with places like in the two shots above?

[someone123]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Beautiful collection of Montreal photos. Who wouldn't want to live in a city with places like in the two shots above?

There is more detail in those 4 buildings on the corner than in a lot of block-sized condo projects.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Beautiful collection of Montreal photos. Who wouldn't want to live in a city with places like in the two shots above?

Montréal is ideal when you don't drive.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by someone123

There is more detail in those 4 buildings on the corner than in a lot of block-sized condo projects.

I want detail and ornamentation to come back. But only if done well. Dunno if that's possible these days.

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

Montréal is ideal when you don't drive.

Definitely. Though during our annual trips to Montreal (pre-COVID) my wife and I would actually spend part of our time driving around and exploring. We saw a lot of the city that way.

[The Great Scaper]

Here's a couple of photos of Hatley Castle I took a couple of years ago. Located in the municipality of Colwood. It has the most beautiful gardens there too. Sunken, Rose, Japanese gardens and more. They film quite a few movies here like X men and Smallville...

Hatley Castle by thegreatscaper, on Flickr

Royal Roads Academy by thegreatscaper, on Flickr

[Hali87]

Halifax - Cogswell Interchange deconstruction and realignment:






Tramway Building renos, with a interesting-looking setup to deal with the slope:






Prince Street:



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[Hali87]

The Northwest Arm in Halifax - South End on left side, Fleming Park/Purcell's Cove on right, Eastern Passage and McNab's Island in left background:


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[Hali87]

Queen's Marque area just before dawn:

[TorontoDrew]

This one looks like a London Pub (the burgundy building) on an Edignburough street. I love it. Are these buildings currently vacant? I love the window treatment but what is it for?

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

This one looks like a London Pub (the burgundy building) on an Edignburough street. I love it. Are these buildings currently vacant? I love the window treatment but what is it for?

It's sort of a funny thing that both Old Montreal and Quebec look decidedly more like Aberdeen than Paris.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

It's sort of a funny thing that both Old Montreal and Quebec look decidedly more like Aberdeen than Paris.

Do you know why? I do. I learned it on a Horse Drawn tour of the old city by a very gassy horse on a very hot day. According to our guide who was knowledgeable on some things and way off on others like Gouin Boulevard being the longest street in the world.

He said that back when Montreal was becoming a major port Briton was the largest trading nation, when they would come to North America they would use stones from Scotland as ballast in their empty ships for balance crossing the ocean. They would offload them here before returning with timber and pelts. That's why the older cities along the North Eastern coast of North America have more buildings that look like those in their heritage stock. The Scottish stone was used for construction.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Do you know why? I do. I learned it on a Horse Drawn tour of the old city by a very gassy horse on a very hot day. According to our guide who was knowledgeable on some things and way off on others like Gouin Boulevard being the longest street in the world.

He said that back when Montreal was becoming a major port Briton was the largest trading nation, when they would come to North America they would use stones from Scotland as ballast in their empty ships for balance crossing the ocean. They would offload them here before returning with timber and pelts. That's why the older cities along the North Eastern coast of North America have more buildings that look like those in their heritage stock. The Scottish stone was used for construction.

All the buildings featured in that picture, including la Maison du Calvet, are made with typical grey stones from Montreal's quarry, like most other buildings in the old city.

[MonkeyRonin]

Yeah, that sounds like it may be an urban legend. There's no way that offloaded ballast rock would ever outnumber locally quarried stone. And as for the architectural similarities, that would be because much of old Montreal's ruling class was Scottish. Homes built by the local French Canadian population would have been comparatively modest and are therefore are less likely to have survived.

Montreal was also still a pretty small place during the actual era of French rule, so not much from then remains either - it has a longer history as a British colony than a French one. Quebec City has a bit more French colonial as it was larger at the time; while it's had less growth pressures since.