Good looking building. I have been to Peterborough twice since this post and I was impressed by Downtown. I could see this being number one for locals. For an outsider, I would only have known of the lift lock. But... here's another contender - Canadian Canoe Museum. Look at this beautiful, spectacular, unique architectural masterpiece:
Bumping this post I just made in case any Hamilton people want to chime in.
Wonder how many days it took to repaint it.
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I don't think anyone posted this for Hamilton? Actually, I don't even recall if I've ever seen this before. For a small town, this would probably be the most iconic structure.
The Art Deco/Gothic Revival Pigott building was one of my first loves for Canadian architecture. The Toronto Star did a feature on the building back around 2000?
Many in Canada don't know it exists, and the average Hamiltonian doesn't pay attention to it because it doesn't stand out amongst the sea of apartment towers and taller office buildings
from Wikipedia
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Built for $1,000,000, The Pigott Building was originally an office building and was Hamilton's first skyscraper. Named after the construction company that built it, the Pigott Construction Company, many of Hamilton's landmarks were built by the company. Some of these include the Canadian Westinghouse offices, the Bank of Montreal Building (1928) on James Street North, McMaster University (1930), Westdale Secondary School (1931), Cathedral of Christ the King (1933), the Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway bridge (1958), Hamilton City Hall (1960) and Copps Coliseum (1985) on York & Bay Streets.
Pigott also built some of Canada's largest industrial plants and finest buildings: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Skylon Tower at Niagara Falls, Crown Life Insurance Company head office, Toronto; Bank of Canada, Ottawa; a plant for General Motors, Oshawa, and buildings for A. V. Roe Company in Malton.
For non residents, they would recongize the welcome sign off the 400 while on the way to cottage country. And lots of people stop at this ONRoute to take a piss and grab some grub or coffee. And gas. And they will line up for 20 minutes to get that food or coffee. This is the beauty of using the Hortons or A&W app. Order ahead and just zip in and grab it. It's the last service station before you go "up north". Well, last ONRoute at least.
The Love Barrie and the Wind Catcher statue are Downtown by the water and maybe residents would name those as most iconic. But, like Milton, perhaps it's the water tower seen off Mapleview.
For Acton, it's either the old town hall or the Old Hide House. "It's worth the drive to Acton".
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Acton’s leather heritage and the history of the Olde Hide House are forever woven together. Widely known as Canada’s largest leather store, the humble beginnings of the Hide House were as a shipping and receiving warehouse for Acton’s Beardmore & Co., the largest tannery in the British Empire at the turn of the century. However, Acton’s history, and in particular, its role and reputation as Canada’s Leathertown date back even further.
For non residents, they would recongize the welcome sign off the 400 while on the way to cottage country. And lots of people stop at this ONRoute to take a piss and grab some grub or coffee. And gas. And they will line up for 20 minutes to get that food or coffee. This is the beauty of using the Hortons or A&W app. Order ahead and just zip in and grab it. It's the last service station before you go "up north".
The Love Barrie and the Wind Catcher statue are Downtown by the water and maybe residents would name those as most iconic. But, like Milton, perhaps it's the water tower seen off Mapleview.
Here's what it looked like years ago... in green. When coming back from visiting grandparents in Windsor in the 1970s and early '80s it was a sign we were nearing the end of what was then a disjointed Hwy 403, and we were about a half hour from home.
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Here's what it looked like years ago... in green. When coming back from visiting grandparents in Windsor in the 1970s and early '80s it was a sign we were nearing the end of what was then a disjointed Hwy 403, and we were about a half hour from home.
^ Yeah I noticed those water towers last time I drove through. I don't recall seeing anything quite like that here in the Maritimes. We mostly seem to have ground based tanks.
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Hmmm… I never really thought about a water tank being anything other than a “tower”. That Hali one actually looks kind of interesting knowing that it’s not oil or whatever else in there.
And good question above. I googled water towers of Ontario and then of Canada. The latter returned the virtually the same results as the former with a few exceptions. ROC I’m sure has lots but they seem to be so ubiquitous, as SV mentioned, that Ontario returns a lot more results when searching for Canada.
So, for Leamington, is it the greenhouse in general? Or is (was) it the water tower? Just read that people were pissed when they repainted the water tower from tomato red to white.
Hmmm… I never really thought about a water tank being anything other than a “tower”. That Hali one actually looks kind of interesting knowing that it’s not oil or whatever else in there.
And good question above. I googled water towers of Ontario and then of Canada. The latter returned the virtually the same results as the former with a few exceptions. ROC I’m sure has lots but they seem to be so ubiquitous, as SV mentioned, that Ontario returns a lot more results when searching for Canada.
Did you try by province? MB water towers look a little different than Ontario:
(my hometown's in there somewhere. It's actually a town icon).
Nah, didn’t put a lot of effort in. I was doing that while lying uncomfortably on an ottoman and tote storage bin in my daughter’s room as she refuses to fall asleep in her room by herself. But that Winnipeg Beach one was one of the few Canada ones that showed up. It looks really vintage and rustic. They must never let it come down.
Still can’t figure out why Leamington wouldn’t just update their font and leave the tank red.
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