The small Canadian towns that were settled in the 1800s or earlier generally have remnants of wonderful neighborhoods. E.g., St. Raymond, north of Quebec City https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8896...!7i7384!8i3692
Stratford, Beaupre, Gananoque, Knowlton, Nelson, etc. (plus a plethora of old towns in Altantic Canada) are just as good as comparably-sized American towns of similar vintage. We just had and have far fewer such towns, and fewer still in the centre and western parts of Canada.
The small Canadian towns that were settled in the 1800s or earlier generally have remnants of wonderful neighborhoods. E.g., St. Raymond, north of Quebec City https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8896...!7i7384!8i3692
Stratford, Beaupre, Gananoque, Knowlton, Nelson, etc. (plus a plethora of old towns in Altantic Canada) are just as good as comparably-sized American towns of similar vintage. We just had and have far fewer such towns, and fewer still in the centre and western parts of Canada.
Yeah I gotta move my ass out East. Montreal might be a good start. Anybody know any architectural firms in Montreal that are hiring??
The building itself isn't necessarily soul-sucking, but the surroundings certainly are. I consider it the 90's clipart version of architecture.
The building behind it is actually pretty interesting - it's an automated cold-storage facility - over 100ft tall to limit surface area, and with robotic pickers that span the entire height of the building. I did a bit of digging into it when they expanded recently and the nature of the internal construction became apparent.
I believe you need to speak French (probably pass a French test if from outside the province) in order to be certified as an architect in Quebec.
Things may be different for other positions that don't require you to be an "architect" per se.
It probably varies from firm to firm. In the vast majority of cases I reckon you'd still need some French though.
I know of an architect here in Ottawa who went to McGill and his french is brutal but somehow he has a Quebec licence although he probably got it 40 + years ago.
They also have more suburbs that are basically overgrown small towns that have retained a lot of their character. I think it's due to when cities and metros boomed in either country. In the U.S. they boomed and grew up earlier.
In Canada in suburbs that have small town cores usually the historic area is tiny and meh, if not run down. .
Montreal has some old towns that grew into large subburbs, but retain their old bones to even become destinations in their own rights (Terrebonne, Varennes, Boucherville, Pointe-Claire, Saint-Anne-De-Bellevue, etc). Even much maligned Longueuil has a Vieux-Longueuil with a real downtown along St-Charles that would be the envy of many small towns anywhere in Canada.
Last edited by Martin Mtl; Aug 24, 2020 at 5:02 PM.
The building itself isn't necessarily soul-sucking, but the surroundings certainly are. I consider it the 90's clipart version of architecture.
The building behind it is actually pretty interesting - it's an automated cold-storage facility - over 100ft tall to limit surface area, and with robotic pickers that span the entire height of the building. I did a bit of digging into it when they expanded recently and the nature of the internal construction became apparent.
Ahh my eyes. My inlaws live very nearby, so I see that wretched landscape way more times than I care to. Absolutely Miltonesque (although it is technically in Missingsausage).
Last edited by MolsonExport; Aug 25, 2020 at 1:04 AM.
Money Mart, some strip mall with an insurance place, and a Tim Hortons billboard. That’s a soul sucking bingo.
Does anyone know how to get rid of those logos that show up on Streetview now. How is anybody supposed to insert an image into a planning report with those ugly icons there.
Could be any city really. Those businesses are staples of any city in the country over about 75,000 people.
Couldn't be in Quebec, as the Staples chain only has that name in Anglo-Canada, it's called "Office Warehouse" in the beautiful province. (Though our buildings are identical and just as ugly.)
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