You have to visit this town if your in the area next year Chad, about 1 hour outside of the peg. Small town, nice harbour, resort hotel, largest Icelandic community out side of Iceland is what they say, Vikings galore..
Ouuu I love me some Vikings! But alas, I'm betrothed to another. LMAO!
We'll see what happens, would be cool to make it up there! It looks like the Manitoba version of Goderich, mixed with Grand Bend!
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
Tens of thousands? Yes, because there are even ten thousand towns in Canada, lets alone tenS of thousands! lmao!!!
Relax dude. For a town of 5000 people, it's a skyline.
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
Skyline aside, Gimli is actually pretty cool. As is Winnipeg Beach. Both have one surprisingly urban strip for a town their size. Winnipeg Beach's is especially impressive because it's a dense streetscape one side, and on the other is a wide manicured forest park, followed by a boardwalk, followed by the beach.
A lot of Manitoba towns have very nice cores. You can definitely enjoy some semblance of urban life in them - top floor apartment on a busy commercial street. Sure, it's the only one, but it's still cool. Beats a home anywhere in the St. John's metro excluding downtown.
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I was over in the old home place this afternoon. What a glorious day for late September!
I took a few pictures of several of the new developments in the downtown area:
New Convention Centre:
Nice juxtaposition with the cruise ship at the government wharf.
Back end, overlooking the marina and Peake's Quay.
Main concourse outside the banquet hall. The Canadian Society of Pediatric Surgeons is meeting at the convention centre presently, so obviously the new convention centre is on the national convention radar screen.
New Downtown Starbuck's on Lower Queen Street:
Charlottetown now has two downtown Starbuck's locations (the other is at the Kent/University intersection). To my knowledge, this makes Charlottetown the only city in the Maritimes outside Halifax with more than one downtown Starbuck's!!
Richmond Place (New Condo Development Next to Richmond Square):
Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
It's a shame Cabot House wasn't constructed next to or in the downtown core otherwise Sydney would have one of the best pound-for-pound skyline in Canada (under 100,000 or course!)
Sault Ste. Marie and Sarnia, to me, seem like the city-versions of kindred spirits Every time I've been to either I think of that. They also look extremely similar, skyline wise and street-level.
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
I think it's alright for a city of 80,000, it seems to have Red Deer beat which now has a bigger population than the Sault, although 30 years ago The Sault was pretty much the same size as it is now while Red Deer was a much smaller town in comparison.
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But alas, I'm betrothed to another. LMAO!
Yes, because there are even ten thousand towns in Canada, lets alone tenS of thousands! lmao!!!
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