Post some pictures of your city! II

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[SignalHillHiker]

A few screengrabs from Facebook of the Masonic Temple restoration work.

[Martin Mtl]

A sample of Montreal's victorian greystones (all pics taken by me, Sunday 17th, on St-Denis streets and around St-Louis Square)

[J.OT13]

Rideau Canal, Ottawa during this year's Winterlude Festival.


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Views of the ByWard Market and Parliament from Andaz Ottawa's roof-top restaurant and patio.


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[rousseau]

Montreal's classic housing stock is dreamy.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Montreal's classic housing stock is dreamy.

I was going to say, these buildings are pretty ordinary actually (by Montreal standards). They're dime a dozen.

[rousseau]

And that's the reason that Montreal is the best-looking city in Canada. Well, either Montreal or Quebec City.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by lio45

I was going to say, these buildings are pretty ordinary actually (by Montreal standards). They're dime a dozen.

What's your point ?

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

What's your point ?

... that Montreal has good bones. (Basically agreeing with rousseau.)

The fact that these pictures are pretty typical scenes - as opposed to being a totally-cherry-picked "best of" selection - is actually good, not bad.

[SignalHillHiker]

Yeah, they're gorgeous. And just the perfect balance between plain and ornate.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by lio45

... that Montreal has good bones. (Basically agreeing with rousseau.)

The fact that these pictures are pretty typical scenes - as opposed to being a totally-cherry-picked "best of" selection - is actually good, not bad.

I actually cherry picked a little though. The greystones around St-Louis square and rue Laval are arguably some of the nicest in the city; this is where the francophone bourgeoisie of the mid and late 19th century of Montreal resided. You'll notice that many of these are single houses, not triplexes. So more than a few of them are actually a notch above your average Montreal greystones. Of course, this is just a sa,mple and you are right that there are tons more...

[someone123]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Yeah, they're gorgeous. And just the perfect balance between plain and ornate.

As far as my own personal aesthetic tastes go, I find the severe pointy Victorians kind of unattractive. But the 3-4 storey ones with bay windows along St-Louis Square are maybe my favourite urban housing in the whole country.

(They cost about as much as a 1,200 square foot condo in a nicer part of Burnaby.)

Lots of Canadian cities have nice Victorian houses but most of them are detached and many of them have aged poorly as the spaces between them have gotten paved over or the lots have been subdivided and filled with subpar buildings.

[kool maudit]

Montreal is to residential bones as Toronto is to skyscrapers. A total class apart.

[MonkeyRonin]

Red Light District by Neil Ta, on Flickr


Toronto Icon by Neil Ta, on Flickr


Balzac's Coffee by Roozbeh Rokni, on Flickr


Reflection by Bruce Joyal, on Flickr


slush day by Sanjin Avdicevic, on Flickr


Untitled by Dominic Bugatto, on Flickr


Grange Park, Toronto, Canada by Leo Li, on Flickr


RC Harris Filtration Plant before sunrise by Phil Marion, on Flickr


Fast Forward by Paul Flynn, on Flickr

[someone123]

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[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Montreal's classic housing stock is dreamy.

Agree totally. Was in Mtl last summer and felt I was in stone-building heaven. I wish more cities had been as willing and able to keep their historic treasures from being torn down over the decades.

There are not many cities in Canada that have anything close to what Montreal and Quebec have in this regard, though I will give a shout out to Saint John, New Brunswick for how they've managed to hang on to some great old building stock (on a much smaller scale, of course). Last time I was there (in the spring) I was impressed as to how much of it has been revitalized. Lots more to go, but I truly think that city is underrated in terms of historic buildings.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Agree totally. Was in Mtl last summer and felt I was in stone-building heaven. I wish more cities had been as willing and able to keep their historic treasures from being torn down over the decades.

Montreal's heritage preservation hasn't really been any better or worse than other Canadian cities. The issue is that other places just never had a housing stock of that quality to begin with.

[Taeolas]

Saw this on Facebook. It probably doesn't really count for this thread as it is posting a picture of my city (Fredericton) along with Halifax, Moncton, Saint John, Charlottetown, Sydney, Truro, Edmundston, Woodstock/Houlton, Bathurst, etc... all at once.

It was a Facebook post of the Maritimes taken from the ISS.

[yaletown_fella]

I'm shocked so many homeowners in Montreal can afford to re-roof and restore the original slate rooftops.

[FrAnKs]

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