The Soul-Sucking Canada Thread

[O-tacular]

Is it an Ontario and Quebec thing to slap clocks onto every suburban shitbox? Why?!?

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is it an Ontario and Quebec thing to slap clocks onto every suburban shitbox? Why?!?

Big Ben syndrome

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Wigs

Someone please stop the Clockzanity

[casper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is it an Ontario and Quebec thing to slap clocks onto every suburban shitbox? Why?!?

No. Not specific to Ontario and Quebec.

The is Willowgrove square in Saskatoon. New sub-division (built by the city) and the give it a small town feel, the "town square" needs a clock tower. I use to live in this neighborhood. At the time, they had not built any of the commercial yet and did not bother making certain the clock was actually showing the correct time. The entire Willowgrove sub-division is actually well done from an urban design perspective but does feel a little artificial in places.

[le calmar]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is it anOntario and Quebec thing to slap clocks onto every suburban shitbox? Why?!?

Some people sure like their clocks:
https://goo.gl/maps/nk9SxrwsMvnNpbUm8

[megadude]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Some people sure like their clocks:
https://goo.gl/maps/nk9SxrwsMvnNpbUm8

Jesus! How long have you been holding onto this gem? Double gambrel, clock, fountain, doll, horse, quadruple lamp post, paved over the curb (gotta be illegal) and surronded by mansards and other gambrels.

I wouldn't have exptected a Caddy in the driveway though.

[jamincan]

I'm mystified by their neighbour's house... how exactly do you get into this tower/porch thing?

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3156...7i16384!8i8192

[megadude]

Originally Posted by jamincan

I'm mystified by their neighbour's house... how exactly do you get into this tower/porch thing?

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3156...7i16384!8i8192

What in the...

[Arrdeeharharharbour]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Some people sure like their clocks:
https://goo.gl/maps/nk9SxrwsMvnNpbUm8

Man, that's one ugly street. And what's with the eyebrows? Is that house staring back at me?

[Arrdeeharharharbour]

Originally Posted by casper

No. Not specific to Ontario and Quebec.

The is Willowgrove square in Saskatoon. New sub-division (built by the city) and the give it a small town feel, the "town square" needs a clock tower. I use to live in this neighborhood. At the time, they had not built any of the commercial yet and did not bother making certain the clock was actually showing the correct time. The entire Willowgrove sub-division is actually well done from an urban design perspective but does feel a little artificial in places.

Perfectly good ground and they built planters for the trees.

[905er]

at least you can tell the time on the Saskatchewan one.. I doubt anyone in Laval or Mississauga have ever looked all the way up to check the time on their clock towers. I've lived and worked in Mississauga for years.. always wished that unfinished looking clock tower on city hall would come down...it's pointless.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Some people sure like their clocks:
https://goo.gl/maps/nk9SxrwsMvnNpbUm8

Guests had better be on time.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Some people sure like their clocks:
https://goo.gl/maps/nk9SxrwsMvnNpbUm8

Wow! It even has a sentry guard! The eye windows and barn shape vaguely remind me of the Amittyville horror house. I agree with megadude that you’ve been holding out on us!

Is it also an Ontario and Quebec thing to have asphalt driveways and no sidewalks?

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by casper

No. Not specific to Ontario and Quebec.

The is Willowgrove square in Saskatoon. New sub-division (built by the city) and the give it a small town feel, the "town square" needs a clock tower. I use to live in this neighborhood. At the time, they had not built any of the commercial yet and did not bother making certain the clock was actually showing the correct time. The entire Willowgrove sub-division is actually well done from an urban design perspective but does feel a little artificial in places.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Wow! It even has a sentry guard! The eye windows and barn shape vaguely remind me of the Amittyville horror house. I agree with megadude: you’ve been holding out on us!

Is it also an Ontario and Quebec thing to have asphalt driveways and no sidewalks?

That really irks me. Many, many mature neighbourhoods from the past are like this. Some of the richest and most beautiful too. I always wondered about the decision making process back in say the 60's and 70's where places like this were allowed to exist without sidewalks at least on one side of the street. There were more kids back then too, and they spent their time outside.

I see places like Mineola for example, a neighbourhood just north of Port Credit GO station in Mississauga, where you pay $4m for a house, but you have to walk on the narrow roads, sometimes with snow banks further narrowing them. And I'm talking like the whole neighbourhood IIRC: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.55548...7i16384!8i8192

And mind you, this particular road is often used by commuters using the station so there's a steady flow of traffic at certain times. I wouldn't be jogging here with ear buds in and I wouldn't be pushing strollers on a walk.

I asked this question a few years back, but about industrial areas. That's not as bad since it's only adults and in most places, not a lot of pedestrians. There are certainly some industrial areas that have lots of bus users though, but I can't remember which ones don't have sidewalks.

[905er]

Originally Posted by megadude

That really irks me. Many, many mature neighbourhoods from the past are like this. Some of the richest and most beautiful too. I always wondered about the decision making process back in say the 60's and 70's where places like this were allowed to exist without sidewalks at least on one side of the street. There were more kids back then too, and they spent their time outside.

I see places like Mineola for example, a neighbourhood just north of Port Credit GO station in Mississauga, where you pay $4m for a house, but you have to walk on the narrow roads, sometimes with snow banks further narrowing them. And I'm talking like the whole neighbourhood IIRC: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.55548...7i16384!8i8192

And mind you, this particular road is often used by commuters using the station so there's a steady flow of traffic at certain times. I wouldn't be jogging here with ear buds in and I wouldn't be pushing strollers on a walk.

I asked this question a few years back, but about industrial areas. That's not as bad since it's only adults and in most places, not a lot of pedestrians. There are certainly some industrial areas that have lots of bus users though, but I can't remember which ones don't have sidewalks.

not gonna lie, the no sidewalk thing is one of my favourite things about Mineola.. that and the mature trees. I'd be happy to have a sidewalk on my street. Lorne park and Oakville's mature neighbourhoods are mostly like that and I'm living for it.

[casper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Our future Gen-Alpha who will have grown up not knowing how to read an analogue clock.

It will make as much sense as a rotary phone.

[niwell]

Originally Posted by 905er

not gonna lie, the no sidewalk thing is one of my favourite things about Mineola.. that and the mature trees. I'd be happy to have a sidewalk on my street. Lorne park and Oakville's mature neighbourhoods are mostly like that and I'm living for it.

I can't speak for the particular road in the streetview link, but I've found that despite the lack of sidewalks places like Lorne Park (we have family there) are actually pretty pleasant to walk in. While I'd prefer sidewalks, the streets are quite narrow which naturally slows down traffic. It's a better experience as a pedestrian than the extremely wide suburban street I grew up on in Calgary that did have sidewalks on both sides.

[kwoldtimer]

Memento mori?

Do kids even know how to read an analog clock face anymore?

[lio45]

Yeah, no sidewalks is kind of a way to tell everyone the street must be shared. It's not incompatible at all with lots of kids playing in/near the street.