The Great Canadian Towns and Villages Thread - Page 12

ShavedParmesanCheese · #**221** Posted **Jun 10, 2021, 1:47 AM**

I think we're underestimating the amount of vehicles a farmer would have 120 years ago. Or the size. He probably wouldn't even have a tractor that didn't have 4 hooves.

Truenorth00 · #**222** Posted **Jun 10, 2021, 1:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by ShavedParmesanCheese

I think we're underestimating the amount of vehicles a farmer would have 120 years ago. Or the size. He probably wouldn't even have a tractor that didn't have 4 hooves.

Sure. But did they expect that the town centre would be built such that any and all vehicles from their collection could go through town?

Airboy · #**223** Posted **Jun 10, 2021, 4:50 PM**

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Sure. But did they expect that the town centre would be built such that any and all vehicles from their collection could go through town?

Did you guys read the article I posted. It had more to do with land claims. Main roads were 2 chains wide. But also turning a team of horse take up way more room than a car or tractor.

Tone · #**224** Posted **Jun 16, 2021, 3:38 PM**

Rimouski founded July 7, 1696 will turn 325 in 3 weeks.

https://soper-rimouski.ca/

Birthday presents:

https://www.facebook.com/OmegaCondosUrbains/

Tone · #**225** Posted **Jul 6, 2021, 12:58 PM**

Sainte-Luce

Binour · #**226** Posted **Sep 7, 2021, 11:15 PM**

Gaspé, Québec
https://youtu.be/yRcA2sQcFdk

MolsonExport · #**227** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 2:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by Binour

Gaspé, Québec
https://youtu.be/yRcA2sQcFdk

Très intéressant. Merci d'avoir partagé.

MolsonExport · #**228** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 2:50 AM**

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Sainte-Luce

Looks like most of it is only a few feet above river/sea level. Is that on the fleuve st. laurent?

TorontoDrew · #**229** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 4:05 PM**

Tobermory Ontario

Cove Island Lighthouse....from a Chi-Cheemaun point of view by Stickwork-Steve, on Flickr

A Sound of Thunder by Ben Roffelsen Photography, on Flickr

Mermaid Cove Tobermory by Jack Tome, on Flickr

Tobermory,ON by sonicgregu, on Flickr

Tobermory, Ontario by Eric Dewar, on Flickr

Tobermory-18 by Sebastian Petrescu, on Flickr

The Big Tub Lighthouse,Tobermory,ON,Canada by sonicgregu, on Flickr

Tobermory, Ontario by R Adam G, on Flickr

Tobermory by Jeffrey Olarte, on Flickr

Tobermory by Pavel Glibin, on Flickr

Big tub lighthouse - Tobermory by Worrawat Engchuan, on Flickr

Tobermory by Blue Heron Company, on Flickr

urbandreamer · #**230** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 4:27 PM**

On my recent trip to Windsor and back through small towns, I really liked Blenheim and Ridgetown. Great beach at Colchester. Two weeks ago I went up to Barry's Bay and back via a very isolated interesting route that took my through Farraday - epic driving road. I liked Haliburton, Bancroft, Coe Hill and Hastings the best of all the towns I drove through: Minden, Haliburton, Wilberforce, Maynooth, Combermere, Musclow, Bancroft, Havelock, Norwood, Hastings, Keene, Baileboro etc. Overall I prefer this side of Ontario - more isolated, less GTA people, cheaper housing, more scenic and just incredible driving roads. So now I'm torn - move to Windsor/Sarnia area for the better weather and access to Ohio/Kentucky/Tennessee or Ottawa/Cornwall/Perth area for a rugged Canadian winter and access to Montreal, Pennsylvania, Virginia etc.

ScreamingViking · #**231** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 5:06 PM**

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Tobermory Ontario

It's been a few years, but Tobermory is one of my favourite day trips. I'll often combine that with a drive along the southern shore of Georgian Bay or down the Lake Huron coast as far as Goderich.

O-tacular · #**232** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 5:25 PM**

My hometown:

Drumheller

https://hikebiketravel.com/15-things...eller-alberta/

Fun fact: the assembly instructions for the world's largest T Rex sculpture came in Chinese. They just guessed putting it together.

https://www.nickkembel.com/drumhelle...kids-toddlers/

https://gypsyguide.com/tour/drumheller-badlands/

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...a-new-era.html

http://jeff.rendek.ca/photography/ho..._9_tonemapped/

MolsonExport · #**233** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 5:46 PM**

cool shots. It must be 25 years since I last went through Drumheller.

JHikka · #**234** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 6:46 PM**

Tobermory's a tourist trap at this stage. Faux-pirate decor everywhere. Yuck.

There's been a lot of chatter recently about the gentrification of smaller resort towns shifting to service wealthier visitors from larger cities. It's probably worth its own thread, but a place like Wellington falls into that category more than Tobermory.

ScreamingViking · #**235** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 6:53 PM**

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Tobermory's a tourist trap at this stage. Faux-pirate decor everywhere. Yuck.

There's been a lot of chatter recently about the gentrification of smaller resort towns shifting to service wealthier visitors from larger cities. It's probably worth its own thread, but Wellington falls into that category more than Tobermory.

It is. I don't usually spend much time in the town itself -- I might visit the trading post and walk around the harbour, grab a coffee, but that's it. Next visit I'll probably be with my wife and we'd likely do the tourist thing and have a bite to eat too.

For me it's the scenery. The lighthouse on the point across Big Tub Harbour, trails and lookout tower at Fathom Five park, and stops along the route there (Dunks Bay, Singing Sands, Bruce national park). It's also neat to drive some of the residential roads that meander along the Lake Huron shore. There are some on the Georgian Bay side too but I don't think I've gone down them yet.

north 42 · #**236** Posted **Sep 8, 2021, 8:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbandreamer

On my recent trip to Windsor and back through small towns, I really liked Blenheim and Ridgetown. Great beach at Colchester. Two weeks ago I went up to Barry's Bay and back via a very isolated interesting route that took my through Farraday - epic driving road. I liked Haliburton, Bancroft, Coe Hill and Hastings the best of all the towns I drove through: Minden, Haliburton, Wilberforce, Maynooth, Combermere, Musclow, Bancroft, Havelock, Norwood, Hastings, Keene, Baileboro etc. Overall I prefer this side of Ontario - more isolated, less GTA people, cheaper housing, more scenic and just incredible driving roads. So now I'm torn - move to Windsor/Sarnia area for the better weather and access to Ohio/Kentucky/Tennessee or Ottawa/Cornwall/Perth area for a rugged Canadian winter and access to Montreal, Pennsylvania, Virginia etc.

My BF and I have a house in Colchester one block from the main beach and marina. It’s a great, quiet little spot in the heart of our local wine region, quite the change from my DT Windsor condo!

megadude · #**237** Posted **Sep 9, 2021, 2:03 PM**

Who has driven through Beeton in Simcoe County before? I was really surprised. Everyone anywhere near the GTA has heard of Alliston before, which has the Honda plant, but I don't think many people know of neighbouring Tottenham and Beeton.

Beeton's Main St. is small, but it was cool driving through. Some interesting heritage architecture.

I then hooked a left on Centre St. and was the housing stock was quite interesting. Mature neighbourhoods are always going to have an interesting mix, but for such a small and unknown place, it was fascinating to see the eclectic mix that did not include oddities like Hamilton Beach houses/cottages. Urbandreamer would be interested in this. And a nice canopy of trees, which doesn't really show on the google maps links below. In general, it was one of those things where pics or maps can't portray that vibe you feel when being there in person.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0775...2!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0789...2!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0789...2!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0798...2!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0811...2!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0825...2!8i6656?hl=en

esquire · #**238** Posted **Sep 9, 2021, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

It's been a few years, but Tobermory is one of my favourite day trips. I'll often combine that with a drive along the southern shore of Georgian Bay or down the Lake Huron coast as far as Goderich.

I wasn't familiar with Tobermory but it certainly looks pretty. I don't know why they lean so hard into the tacky pirate crap, though.

That said, at 3.5 hours each way from the GTHA, it sure is one long day trip!

ScreamingViking · #**239** Posted **Sep 9, 2021, 3:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I wasn't familiar with Tobermory but it certainly looks pretty. I don't know why they lean so hard into the tacky pirate crap, though.

That said, at 3.5 hours each way from the GTHA, it sure is one long day trip!

Definitely have to love driving, and make a whole day of it.

Much of the drive is very scenic once you get north of the larger cities, no matter what route you take. Farms on gently rolling hills, escarpment country, Huron's relatively flat coast or the more rugged one along Georgian Bay where the Niagara Escarpment is close to the shore.

Ironically the least scenic section is the 40 or 50 km closest to Tobermory, which feels more like the thickly wooded parts of northern Ontario than anywhere in southwestern ON... not that it's ugly, just lots of this: https://goo.gl/maps/mXzHHVJVqwK25UpB6

TorontoDrew · #**240** Posted **Sep 9, 2021, 3:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I wasn't familiar with Tobermory but it certainly looks pretty. I don't know why they lean so hard into the tacky pirate crap, though.

LOL, I'm going up there for 5 days starting next Saturday so I was looking a pictures because I'm excited. I'n not going to lie, I kind of like tacky tourist stuff so when I saw that restaurant with the very cheap all you can eat Fish N Chips I had to look into it.

The restaurants full name is Shipwreck Lee's Pirate Bistro. We pan on going after a hike one day now. I'm just hoping the water is warm enough to swim in because I plan on bringing my inflatable and floating in the Groto with some beers.