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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 10:24 PM
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Could also go with hamstrung... by local politics among city councillors who don't look at Hamilton as a city so much as a collection of their personal fiefdoms.

Agree with gritty too.
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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 10:34 PM
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Pre-amalgamation Hamilton:

Ancaster = pretentious
Dundas = townie
Flamborough = farmie
Glanbrook = boonie
Stoney Creek = Italian
Hamilton (old city boundary) = same as above

And for fun (lived there for more than a decade) Burlington = mundane
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Old Posted Apr 14, 2021, 12:45 AM
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Awe man. Thunder Bay is sweet though. I'd go with...

Finnish
Kakabeka
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Forest

Or in a negative/real sense... Stagnant
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Dundas = townie
Are there that many Mac students in Dundas? Though Mac isn't in Dundas, so it doesn't really work.

I think the "townie" thing is an American phenomenon that doesn't apply in Canada anyway. We don't have college towns catering to the spawn of the economic upper classes who parachute in to get their degrees without having any meaningful interaction with the locals.
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Old Posted Apr 14, 2021, 5:37 AM
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I meant that quite literally, not with any association to the university. To me Dundas has always felt like it could be a town totally separate from the larger urban area it belongs to in reality.

Townish if that is preferable.
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Charlottetown: homey

Sudbury: stack

Timmins: shaft
The super stack in Sudbury will soon be gone.

While Timmins does have a number of shafts, we also have open pit mines so that is why I simply went with "mining." But "shaft" sounds better lol.
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Old Posted Apr 14, 2021, 5:43 AM
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Ouuu what's happening at Inco?!



Edit: Just read a bit about it. Had no idea Vale was undertaking such an impressive modernization. Very cool!

Sidenote: Jesus I'm chatty when I take my ADHD meds 0.o
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Cool thread idea.

Some I may be repeating.

St. Johns - Fishermen
Halifax- Celtic
London- Green
Windsor - Detroit
Kitchener - German
Stratford - Charming
Hamilton - Victorian (in reference to the housing stock that stood out to me)
Toronto - 401!
Sudbury - Moon
Timmins- Shield
Kingston- Historic
Ottawa- Bilingual
Montreal - Vibe
Winnipeg- Quondam
Regina- CFL
Saskatoon- Artsy
Calgary- New
Edmonton - Workers
Vancouver- Asian
Victoria -Beautiful
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I meant that quite literally, not with any association to the university. To me Dundas has always felt like it could be a town totally separate from the larger urban area it belongs to in reality.

Townish if that is preferable.

I've always heard Townie in Southern Ontario / GTA to refer to "original" residents before the area was absorbed into the urban sprawl. Usually more working class / blue collar who would frequent the original dive bars and old shops in the area. My friends from places like Aurora and Newmarket use the term a lot, and I've even heard it in Toronto's west end to refer to the pre-gentrification population.

It works for Dundas to me - I have a couple friends from there and it sounds like many of the people they went to High School with never moved and have every intention of staying there for the rest of their lives.
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In Kingston, Ontario home of Queen's University the "townies" are the local non-student population. Or at least, locals who are not affiliated with the university as students, profs, academics, etc.

(Perhaps kitchen or maintenance staff at Queen's might be referred to as "townies". Not sure.)
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I've always heard Townie in Southern Ontario / GTA to refer to "original" residents before the area was absorbed into the urban sprawl. Usually more working class / blue collar who would frequent the original dive bars and old shops in the area. My friends from places like Aurora and Newmarket use the term a lot
That’s how people in Peterborough used that word too. Actually there was even a sharper class connotation to it, usually signalling a local member of the underclass:

E.g. “I hired some townie to clean the junk out of my garage”
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That’s how people in Peterborough used that word too. Actually there was even a sharper class connotation to it, usually signalling a local member of the underclass:

E.g. “I hired some townie to clean the junk out of my garage”

Wasn't sure on how often it's used there but Ptbo came to mind as well! I used to work for MNRF and had to go there once a week or so and heard it often amongst coworkers who lived there - the vast majority of which were Toronto transplants.
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