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Old Posted Nov 19, 2014, 9:53 PM
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Perhaps smaller cities need a little duplication. How else are they going to get any attention?!? haha
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Old Posted Nov 20, 2014, 9:38 PM
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That black building is amazing! Must be one of the nicest buildings in whatever city it's in.
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That black building is amazing! Must be one of the nicest buildings in whatever city it's in.
Its the Peg. The Hydro building gives it away.
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That's their new ALT, right? Or Group Germain? I forget what the branding is on that one. It wasn't there when I lived in the city, but they kept (if I understand correctly) part of the facade of the gorgeous old building that was in its place.

One of the best preservation/modernization projects I've ever seen. It looks fantastic.
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Took this today from a condo on Wellington Cres (in Winnipeg)


Osborne Village, Winnipeg


It's a shame it's just an iphone pic. On the horizon just peaking over the tree line you can see the St Boniface Basilica, kind of hard to make it out in this picture though.
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Victoria, with a new residential addition to the skyline


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Old Posted Dec 13, 2014, 12:41 PM
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Old Posted Dec 20, 2014, 4:20 AM
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And again... Chicoutimi (Saguenay)


Une autre promenade à Chicoutimi! by ledoux_marie, on Flickr
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Wow, that's beautiful! Kinda vaguely reminds me of St. John's, mostly from the church having a prominent spot in the skyline and the cityscape sloping down toward the water.
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^^ One best asset is it has no rooms lol
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The amazing, fantastic, blow your socks off, Downtown Oshawa!!!

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Pic by me this afternoon.

BTW, the downtown core is the group of buildings in the background on the right. Makes Kitchener look like Manhattan, doesn't it?
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^^ One best asset is it has no rooms lol
Scrolling down without reading I only realised it wasn't St. Johns because of the lack of the rooms.
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Agree it's very similar to us.

And, regrettably, about The Rooms. lol
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Agree it's very similar to us.

And, regrettably, about The Rooms. lol
You will have to change my mind about it if I come to visit one day

Deal ?
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Mixed deal. I want you to come visit, yes - but... I can't save The Rooms. I tried here, a few times, to convince myself as much as anyone else. Can't stick with it. Hate it.

The interior, though, is gorgeous.

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Mixed deal. I want you to come visit, yes - but... I can't save The Rooms. I tried here, a few times, to convince myself as much as anyone else. Can't stick with it. Hate it.

The interior, though, is gorgeous.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rebfot...R-2AoMRh-mwBjJ
Ahah ! I think that after visiting the whole thing, I will come to say : I still don't like it.... but I ''get it''. In the way of what it is supposed to remember (history & stuffs ) One thing I know is it's an iconic building of the city, love it or not, so it has to be visible aswell as a Landmark...
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Old Posted Dec 21, 2014, 12:15 AM
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Well, it was intentional - yes. There is a story behind the mess. But it's a rural story, not an urban one. It was supposed to be down by the water originally... but it was - and I kid you not - purposely moved to the top of the hill solely to diminish the Basilica. (Danny Williams was our first Premier FROM St. John's. You can't imagine what it was like from 1949 until the 2000s in a province where the capital voted overwhelmingly against joining Confederation, and rural, overwhelmingly Anglican areas, mostly for it. There was a lot of payback.).

So The Rooms, in its current location, is an Anglican shot across the bow against the appearance that Catholics dominate St. John's. On purpose. And, hilariously, officially opened by Danny.

ANYHOW, my point is... you won't "get it" from visiting St. John's. You'll get it if I take ya out into the middle of nowhere to fishing villages.
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