Regina/Winnipeg equivalents

[thurmas]

Inspired by the TO/MTL thread. This has been done AFAIK.

[esquire]

Cathedral Village = Osborne Village
Mosaic Stadium = IG Field
Delta Regina = Delta Winnipeg
Wascana Park = The Forks
Victoria East = Regent Avenue
North Central = North End
Regina Pats = Winnipeg ICE
Wascana View = South Tuxedo
Albert St N. = McPhillips St
Legislature = Legislature
Transitional Area = Bro Ass
Albert St. S. = Portage Ave W
Regina Bypass = Perimeter Highway
Casino Regina = Club Regent Casino
Downtown = Downtown
Whitmore Park = Assiniboia
Normanview = South St. Vital

[Docere]

Interesting. I sort of see Regina as a mini-Winnipeg, and Saskatoon as a mini-Edmonton.

[thurmas]

Humpty's=Robin's Donuts

[O-tacular]

Look at this can of worms that's been opened now. What's next: Springfield / Shelbyville equivalents? If anything Calgary and Edmonton have the strongest Bizarro World similarities. Even our News anchors have traditionally been doppelgangers of one another. Ultimately they're all just shades of Okotoks.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Look at this can of worms that's been opened now. What's next: Springfield / Shelbyville equivalents? If anything Calgary and Edmonton have the strongest Bizarro World similarities. Even our News anchors have traditionally been doppelgangers of one another. Ultimately they're all just shades of Okotoks.

Regina/Saskatoon and Calgary/Edmonton are definitely parallel universe versions of each other.

I'm jealous that Winnipeg doesn't have its own twin. I guess we have Brandon, but it's horrifically shrunken and stunted.

[kwoldtimer]

If this is to be a thread, could the spelling in the title be corrected, please.

[thurmas]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

If this is to be a thread, could the spelling in the title be corrected, please.

My fat fingers on the phone are too lazy to correct it today

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by esquire

Regina/Saskatoon and Calgary/Edmonton are definitely parallel universe versions of each other.

I'm jealous that Winnipeg doesn't have its own twin. I guess we have Brandon, but it's horrifically shrunken and stunted.

Fargo?

[kwoldtimer]

St Paul?

[phone]

Edmonton/Saskatoon equivalents (other than obvious downtown = downtown etc):

Strathcona = Nutana
Yellowhead Trail = Idylwyld Drive
Whyte Ave = Broadway Ave
High Level Bridge = CP Bridge
Hotel MacDonald = Delta Bessborough
Jasper Place = Sutherland
Oliver = City Park
Alberta Ave = 20th St W
U of A Farm = U of S Research Plots
97 St NW = 22nd St W
Gateway Blvd/Calgary Trail = 8th St E
Sherwood Park Freeway = College Drive
Whitemud Trail = Circle Drive qua older urban freeway
Anthony Henday Drive = "Saskatoon Freeway" (ca. 2040)


I'm not as familiar with Edmonton as I am with Calgary, but as I consider Saskatoon to have, on balance, more in common with Edmonton than Calgary, I gave it a shot.

[thurmas]

Kuopio Finland is technically a sister city of Winnipeg

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by phone

Edmonton/Saskatoon equivalents (other than obvious downtown = downtown etc):

Strathcona = Nutana
Yellowhead Trail = Idylwyld Drive
Whyte Ave = Broadway Ave
High Level Bridge = CP Bridge
Hotel MacDonald = Delta Bessborough
Jasper Place = Sutherland
Oliver = City Park
Alberta Ave = 20th St W
U of A Farm = U of S Research Plots
97 St NW = 22nd St W
Gateway Blvd/Calgary Trail = 8th St E
Whitemud Trail = Circle Drive qua older urban freeway
Anthony Henday Drive = "Saskatoon Freeway" (ca. 2040)


I'm not as familiar with Edmonton as I am with Calgary, but as I consider Saskatoon to have, on balance, more in common with Edmonton than Calgary, I gave it a shot.

Having visited Saskatoon a few times and living in Edmonton, I agree with all of these. I would also add the U of S and U of A (obviously), but also the fact that Nutana/Strathcona, the unviersities as well as the downtowns are all on the same sides of the saskatchewan rivers, which is neat.

Nutana & Strathcona - south side
Downtowns - north side
Universities - south side

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by esquire

Regina/Saskatoon and Calgary/Edmonton are definitely parallel universe versions of each other.

I'm jealous that Winnipeg doesn't have its own twin. I guess we have Brandon, but it's horrifically shrunken and stunted.

Haha poor Brandon. Do Winnipeg people dismiss Brandon as a tumble-weed hick town or is it largely seen as the province's legit 2nd city?


I do wonder though, is a province better off with one overwhelming primate city like Manitoba or is the two city model more optimal. Like, would manitoba be bigger today if it had 2 cities of 400K?

[Docere]

Brandon has a similar population to Grand Forks, North Dakota. It just isn't in the same league as Winnipeg, which dominates Manitoba (60% of the population).

[thewave46]

Originally Posted by esquire

Regina/Saskatoon and Calgary/Edmonton are definitely parallel universe versions of each other.

I'm jealous that Winnipeg doesn't have its own twin. I guess we have Brandon, but it's horrifically shrunken and stunted.

Winnipeg is in a league of its own. It needs no twin, no competition, as the battle would be lost before it began.

Hell, it’s right there in the name: Winnipeg. In the manliest of provinces: Manitoba.

Really, what can one say? First ring road: Winnipeg. Team names: the Jets and Blue Bombers are an awesome Air Force duo for naming teams. What can one say for the rest of the country’s pithy team names? Blue Jays and Maple Leafs get sucked into Jets’ engines, losers. Floods? I think not, fools who live in places that worry about that. Red River Floodway means we tell where the river to go, not fret that it rises. Electricity: Manitoba has more hydro than Niagara Falls. Take that Ontario! Rail: CN and CP - both decided to make Winnipeg their gateway to the West, not fight it out.

As you see, it was truly not a place to be equalled, much less have a twin. Brandon is just something to let Western Manitoba feel better, like a Participation ribbon.

Winnipeg for the win!

[ue]

Originally Posted by Docere

Brandon has a similar population to Grand Forks, North Dakota. It just isn't in the same league as Winnipeg, which dominates Manitoba (60% of the population).

Grand Forks has 103,000. I'm using the metro population here because unlike 'unicities' like Winnipeg and Brandon, a significant portion of Grand Forks isn't in the city limits (most notably, East Grand Forks across the state line in Minnesota).

City of Brandon is 51,000 and its "metro" population is 54,000.

I think Grand Forks is boosted by the presence of UND and cross-border shoppers to give it more amenities too.

As for Winnipeg twins... there isn't one. But, unlike a city like Saskatoon, which has clear siblings (Edmonton most strongly, and to a lesser extent Regina and Calgary), Winnipeg has more of an extended family, with cities to the west, south, and east that can remind you of it. It has shades of Southern Ontario cities like Hamilton and London (especially in vibe), which makes sense because a lot of the initial Canadian settlers came from Ontario. It also takes influence from the Midwest/Plains, and so you can see elements of it in Minneapolis-St Paul, Chicago, Kansas City, Fargo, Omaha, etc. And then as the prototypical 'Prairie' city, you can see its forms replicated across the Prairies, but most obviously in Edmonton and Regina. Regina is probably the closest to a mini-Winnipeg, but its vegetation is different and there's no real river, let alone rivers.

[urbandreamer]

Regina is a grown up Brandon, or 1980s London? I really liked both cities, although Saskatoon impressed me more. North end Saskatoon is very agricultural, like North Kamloops. Saskatoon overall reminds me of (1950s?) Toronto: vibrant downtown, residential streetcar suburbs with commercial strips. Brandon and Lethbridge very similar: grid downtown with great housing stock.

Winnipeg's Canadian twin is Edmonton: capital city ambition, ragged dumpy downtown, endless tree-lined residential neighborhoods, the river etc.

I also was surprised by Swift Current - the Revelstoke of the Prairies?

[Wpg_Guy]

Winnipeg picture thread: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=245200

[Docere]

Originally Posted by ue

Grand Forks has 103,000. I'm using the metro population here because unlike 'unicities' like Winnipeg and Brandon, a significant portion of Grand Forks isn't in the city limits (most notably, East Grand Forks across the state line in Minnesota).

City of Brandon is 51,000 and its "metro" population is 54,000.

I think Grand Forks is boosted by the presence of UND and cross-border shoppers to give it more amenities too.

I stand corrected. So Manitoba's second city doesn't even reach North Dakota's second or third city (Bismarck is roughly the same size). That's how dominant Winnipeg is.

As for Winnipeg twins... there isn't one. But, unlike a city like Saskatoon, which has clear siblings (Edmonton most strongly, and to a lesser extent Regina and Calgary), Winnipeg has more of an extended family, with cities to the west, south, and east that can remind you of it. It has shades of Southern Ontario cities like Hamilton and London (especially in vibe), which makes sense because a lot of the initial Canadian settlers came from Ontario. It also takes influence from the Midwest/Plains, and so you can see elements of it in Minneapolis-St Paul, Chicago, Kansas City, Fargo, Omaha, etc. And then as the prototypical 'Prairie' city, you can see its forms replicated across the Prairies, but most obviously in Edmonton and Regina. Regina is probably the closest to a mini-Winnipeg, but its vegetation is different and there's no real river, let alone rivers.

That's a good description. Yeah, Winnipeg truly is a "crossroads" city and the first-generation Prairie city that others replicated.