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Elevated concrete highways leading to downtown, port cranes, old masonry buildings that look like they're on st-james street, townhouses, st-john looks like a mini version of Montreal in some of these shots.
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The Saint John NB look explained: Montreal was dating and sleeping with Halifax and St. John's around the same time, and no one knows who the real father is.
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The Saint John NB look explained: Montreal was dating and sleeping with Halifax and St. John's around the same time, and no one knows who the real father is.
The relationship between Saint John and Moncton is pretty interesting. Very much siblings that take turns "peaking" in an alternating fashion, though it looks like it isn't the zero sum game it used to be, thankfully!
French people like to hyphenate anything English, because it makes it less English, so it's not your fault.
Eg - signs for 'New-York' on the 15. (they have only recently took the hyphen out).
People in Wakefield raised a stink when it became 'La Pêche', so to placate them, MTQ renamed the road going into town 'Ch. de la Vallée-de-Wakefield'.
The relationship between Saint John and Moncton is pretty interesting. Very much siblings that take turns "peaking" in an alternating fashion, though it looks like it isn't the zero sum game it used to be, thankfully!
I really like both for different reasons. Saint John blew my socks off though as it exceeded my expectations which were reasonably high to begin with. I also found the city more interesting than Charlottetown despite the latter being a better known tourist destination. To be fair Saint John is a fair bit larger. It has so much potential and hopefully the faster growth of Moncton doesn’t hinder this but supports a provincial urbanism synergy along with Fredericton.
It's actually a rule. In French if something is named *for* something or someone, it takes a hyphen
I.e. Rue René-Lévesque va René Lévesque or saint Pierre (the person) vs Saint-Pierre (town or street). Another example would be lac Saguay (the actual lake) vs Lac-Saguay (the town named for the lake).
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French people like to hyphenate anything English, because it makes it less English, so it's not your fault.
Eg - signs for 'New-York' on the 15. (they have only recently took the hyphen out).
People in Wakefield raised a stink when it became 'La Pêche', so to placate them, MTQ renamed the road going into town 'Ch de la Vallée-de-Wakefield'.
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It's actually a rule. In French if something is named *for* something or someone, it takes a hyphen
I.e. Rue René-Lévesque va René Lévesque or saint Pierre (the person) vs Saint-Pierre (town or street). Another example would be lac Saguay (the actual lake) vs Lac-Saguay (the town named for the lake).
The Saint John NB look explained: Montreal was dating and sleeping with Halifax and St. John's around the same time, and no one knows who the real father is.
On a basic level the Victorian era architecture of Saint John and Halifax is similar but when you look at the details the building styles are pretty distinct and it's not hard to tell which city you're looking at. Saint John is also more American looking and physically and traditionally culturally closer to the USA.
One difference is that there was a major fire in 1877, and so many historic buildings there were built after that date. Neither Halifax nor Saint John were growing much in that period so there isn't a ton of 1870's-1880's architecture in Halifax. Halifax had more prominent Georgian buildings and that style was carried forward. In later decades Halifax pulled ahead and it has more Art Deco architecture and so on.
Saint John was and is more of a commercial and industrial town while Halifax has more government and military. The NB equivalent of that stuff is in Fredericton. This way of setting up a state/province is an American thing too, like Portland and Augusta in Maine.
My guess: New York the city is what the state is named for, hence the hyphen in the name of the state. This would respect the rule though in practice I find it's less and less observed with non-French place names now. Even when writing in French.
Wpgy Guy - colourful and fun winter pics as always Lots of interesting eye candy and interesting celebration of winter pics in that full set plus some interior shots. Nice to see those as a city is more than just its skin.
Having said that some exterior only shots, lol, of my week in Vancouver. Weather was grey and cold, only perked up come Wednesday afternoon, but magically I somehow missed nearly all the sunny breaks and just got the clouds. I was surprised how far spring is behind there compared to Victoria, the cold spell really set things back it appears.
“Built in 1888, the Leslie House is one of the earliest surviving examples of single family housing in the downtown Vancouver. Its longevity as a rare survivor make it an asset to the community.
It is architecturally significant as a rare example of a 'cottage' version of a Queen Anne style Victorian house, a style familiar to Vancouver in the 1890s and 1900s. This style began in Britain in the 1860s, making its way to Victoria in the 1880s and then traveling south into the United States where it was modified to be somewhat more flamboyant, before it came back to Vancouver and Victoria, where it was further modified to include some Italianate elements. It represents this style through its hipped roof, irregularly projecting gables, an octagonal tower projecting from the front corner, and the decorative surface treatment, such as turned spindlework and ornamental balustrade details of the open front porch and upper balcony.”
Left St. John's a little more than a day after a major snowfall...
Flew from St. John's to Deer Lake, about 750 km but 45 minutes.
Then an even longer (1.5-hour) cab ride from the airport in Deer Lake to the meetings in Stephenville (which has a far larger airport, but has fallen into neglect since we build the new airport in Deer Lake, primarily because well-connected people own the leased land it's on and have cabins nearby lol).
Most of the week out there was this...
But the sun did peek out sometimes...
It's alright, by mainland/Italian standards. But it's not for me lol
My little trip for some meetings out to the West Coast.
I went directly to the end of the thread at first and worked my way up, but it was unmistakably SHH from the get-go. Thank you
(and nobody else I've come across provides a soundtrack!!!)
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Lots of interesting eye candy and interesting celebration of winter pics in that full set plus some interior shots. Nice to see those as a city is more than just its skin.
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