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Originally Posted by itom 987
I find old towns and villages in Quebec surprisingly suburban in form.
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I don't think that suburban is the appropriate term to describe the form of a typical quebecois village centre. The right term would be
villageois in form: the scale and setbacks aren't suburban, the street grid is generally orthogonal (when there is a grid), and most of the St. Lawrence lowlands villages are designed around a central church place. I guess what you meant is that housing is detached (generally 1 floor and half), and that you wouldn't find this kind of denser row / commercial block that seems to be common in the towns of English Canada (I think about Ontario especially). The concept of
suburban would also mean that these villages would have been developed in the shadow of some more important town or city - this wasn't the case. It simply is the french canadian way of building villages and small towns. If you are interested, you could do some street viewing in Verchères, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu or Saint-Ours.
Oh, and beautiful pictures of Calgary (I have to stay on topic)!
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