[someone123]

Suburban Calgary seems to give suburban Toronto a run for its money in terms of how depressing it is. That's a bit of an accomplishment.

[1ajs]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2332/2064158055_742d3286a4_b.jpg
source:http://flickr.com/photos/21248267@N03/2064158055/

[Keng]

Another shot of the Peg, Pano from a week ago...
http://kengillespie.com/img/v3/p590724003-4.jpg

[ScottFromCalgary]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2333/2073996903_09dbe1f647_b.jpg

Imagine how long it would take to walk to downtown from there. The distance is about 30km, so I guess about a full day of solid walking? Better pack a lunch...

[Boris2k7]

^ It depends on the routes (a bit easier from the southwest given Macleod Trail and all) but I'm guessing about 5 hours. I've done Chinatown to Fish Creek/Lacombe, and that's a little over 3

[entheosfog]

Today was the perfect late November day in Vancouver. It reached +8, was sunny, and the mountains just received a dumping of snow...

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5250.jpg?t=1196403669

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5252.jpg?t=1196403855

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5302.jpg?t=1196403898

[Keng]

Winnipeg, looking towards Portage and Main, some of the past and some of the more modern...
http://kengillespie.com/img/v2/p691852519-4.jpg

[caltrane74]

"Winnipeg in Winterpeg" or is it "Winterpeg in Winnipeg"

Nice Christmas Shots!!!

Merry Christmas and God Bless us all on SSP

[ErickMontreal]

:: Montreal - Quebec ::

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2075739632_f1d7e787c7_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1372/1346584295_5cb81ab796_b.jpg
Peter B. Carter - http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterbcarter/sets/72157601911534586/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/1347473428_10f9f8941d_b.jpg
Peter B. Carter - http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterbcarter/sets/72157601911534586/[/SIZE]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2217/2076950182_5775d02705_b.jpg
By Macrokil - www.flickr.com/photos/18047817@N08/sets/72157603338251664/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/2076950190_baa1dee32c_b.jpg
By Macrolkil - www.flickr.com/photos/18047817@N08/sets/72157603338251664/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2072914033_e205beebeb_b.jpg
By David Giral - www.flickr.com/photos/thepretender/2072914033/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1128/620071664_bb619a4973_b.jpg
By SilverPuppeteer - www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1028/601088850_c7d9a7729c_b.jpg
By SilverPuppeteer - www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2054300200_62cdc44250_b.jpg
By SilverPuppeteer - www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2128/2055768499_265cf5c49e_b.jpg
By SilverPuppeteer - www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/2055767175_ee146007dd_b.jpg
By SilverPuppeteer - www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2005/2072234231_4d969091b8_b.jpg
By SilverPuppeteer - www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

[LeftCoaster]

[QUOTE=HalifaxMtl666;3198627]
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2054300200_62cdc44250_b.jpgBy SilverPuppeteer -
www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_remillard/

WOW! :tup:

[entheosfog]

Today Vancouver saw it's first snowfall and this is the first time I've experienced snow in Vancouver. Temps are a little below zero, so it's still quite nice. Here's a few pictures from today:

No downtown view for me today:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5303.jpg?t=1196560829

This driver seems to be having some trouble:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5304.jpg?t=1196560987

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5311.jpg?t=1196561026

It's still not too cold for the fruit to be out:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5316.jpg?t=1196561048

Commercial Drive:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5318.jpg?t=1196561085

I think the snow may be done. For now:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5325.jpg?t=1196561116

[1ajs]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/2078860169_353a0f0d43_o.jpg



post more when i can figure out how to open my raws in linux again :S
switched to raw after i shot that

[Rusty van Reddick]

Suburban Calgary seems to give suburban Toronto a run for its money in terms of how depressing it is. That's a bit of an accomplishment.

You really need to get out more. Ever seen a suburb in the US? EVER? The new communities Calgary are remote and I sure as hell would never live in them, but they're built to ever-denser standards.

I don't get why you have to slag Calgary with your backhanded comments so often.

[1ajs]

You really need to get out more. Ever seen a suburb in the US? EVER? The new communities Calgary are remote and I sure as hell would never live in them, but they're built to ever-denser standards.

I don't get why you have to slag Calgary with your backhanded comments so often.
its because of the arigance that many people in calgary have with this bigest and the best probly... its there don't dieny that but toronto is just as bad for that so eh now relax dude and have a beer like a good ol canadian

[vid]

You really need to get out more. Ever seen a suburb in the US? EVER? The new communities Calgary are remote and I sure as hell would never live in them, but they're built to ever-denser standards.

I don't get why you have to slag Calgary with your backhanded comments so often.

So what if they're denser? They're still depressing. You can have the houses stacked on top of each other, but if there is nothing to do, then there is nothing to do!

So what if you have twice as many people per acre than an American suburb? That means you have half as many recreation opportunities per person. Not really something to be proud of now, is it?

[Cambridgite]

its because of the arigance that many people in calgary have with this bigest and the best probly... its there don't dieny that but toronto is just as bad for that so eh now relax dude and have a beer like a good ol canadian

One word....

Spellcheck.

[1ajs]

One word....

Spellcheck.

don't have one runing the latest version of mozila and the ssp one does not show up

[someone123]

You really need to get out more. Ever seen a suburb in the US? EVER? The new communities Calgary are remote and I sure as hell would never live in them, but they're built to ever-denser standards.

I don't get why you have to slag Calgary with your backhanded comments so often.

How does density make a place less depressing? How are US suburbs relevant? It is not as if I said that they are all wonderful places. Is my comment actually incorrect or do you just have a problem with the fact that it's negative?

As for me "often" slagging Calgary, a search of posts by me that include the words "Calgary" turns up with a total of 2 results. I don't have particularly strong feelings about the place either way. I plan to visit at some point while I'm still living relatively close to Alberta.

Sometimes, people on the forum are just going to say things you don't like. That doesn't mean you have to go apeshit on them, particularly if any disagreement you have really just boils down to opinions that may have been formed based on equally valid but different points of view.

[401_King]

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc300/whereismymind2007/DSCF5325.jpg?t=1196561116

haw haw.....

[Cambridgite]

haw haw.....

I dunno buddy....I'm looking out my front window out here, 100km west of Toronto, and it isn't looking much better. :(



1000th post!! I'm officially an SSP whore!! :banana:

[1ajs]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2079946636_1181ad118a_o.jpg

[entheosfog]

haw haw.....

I'm sure most Vancouver-ites would be annoyed at the laugh laugh but I hafta say, being from Calgary, I'm loving the snow! It's weird but I really miss Calgary's weather. Okay, maybe not what they're having now, but it's the snow I miss!

And it's quite funny to see how people here react to a bit of snow and how my co-workers complain at how cold it is (-1 degree).

Bring on the snow Mother Nature, bring it on, I say!
:sly:

[401_King]

^ did it melt??

[1ajs]

^^ lol

will always remember this day
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9620/freepdm1.th.jpg (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=freepdm1.jpg)http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3659/plow2ms6.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=plow2ms6.jpg)

[raggedy13]

A few recent pics from flickr.com...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/2079471363_464e346700_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/2080183088_9759cce3a5_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2303/2080025108_36b0297ea0_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2046/2079956656_82f697a4e1_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2278/2078990131_6cc49a91be_b.jpg

Next few are from Stanley Park...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2079721788_d7656e4e8e_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2114/2079677656_306c04c079_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2281/2078857089_e28c342ac8_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/2078848509_ceb0e4dd43_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2019/2078846467_c3813ed47f_b.jpg

No Vancouver winter photo thread would be complete without...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2105/2079588896_0ae9dc6ea4_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/2079571824_8f3260b4b2_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2079488348_be6b7cd67b_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2078697139_173afcee91_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2078605523_de1ee4501c_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/2078563937_e0be1582bb_b.jpg

From a day or two ago before the our current lower elevation snowfall
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/2076644788_73ecc36406_b.jpg

[Jimby]

Awesome pics of Vancouver, and winter is still 3 weeks away!
I love the picture of the cyclist with the ski goggles and the bare hands.
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[Boris2k7]

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9522/airportcalgarybackss4.jpg
© David Bubler (Crayok), from Flickr

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9806/treelightsht5.jpg
© idatewe, from Flickr

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6890/citylightslp7.jpg
© D'Arcy Norman, from Flickr

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3572/skylinegb4.jpg
© David Bubler (Crayok), from Flickr

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6458/burningshacklw7.gif
© Val Ulski, from Flickr

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9719/nexenls6.jpg
© Hank888, from Flickr

[Jimby]

Wow, those are great shots of Calgary. They look so much better full size on SSP than tiny on Flickr (unless you click on a larger size to view of course).
The real flames and the Calgary Flames pic is hilarious!
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[entheosfog]

^ did it melt??

Not yet! There's tons more falling now although it is a bit warmer. And there's supposed to be heavy rain by tomorrow morning...should be fun!

[ScottFromCalgary]

So what if you have twice as many people per acre than an American suburb? That means you have half as many recreation opportunities per person. Not really something to be proud of now, is it?

Come on vid, your better than that.

[SpongeG]

its still snowing heavily here in Burnaby

[Andy6]

Toronto, Dec. 2, 2007, 3.15 pm (from my balcony):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2196/2081852630_4f57dd31f8_o.jpg

[Jimby]

So what if they're denser? They're still depressing. You can have the houses stacked on top of each other, but if there is nothing to do, then there is nothing to do!

So what if you have twice as many people per acre than an American suburb? That means you have half as many recreation opportunities per person. Not really something to be proud of now, is it?

What do you mean there is nothing to do? What are you talking about?
The community of Auburn Bay that I took pictures of has plenty of its own recreational facilities (ie swimming, boating, skating, fishing on the lake), plus it is an easy bike ride to the Bow river bike path (hundreds of connected kilometres of bike paths) and Fish Creek Provincial Park which is bigger than you could ever walk, and it is an easy drive down highway 22X to Kananaskis Country and the Rocky Mountains.
Calgary's parks are some of the biggest in North America and we are adding more parks. I hardly see what the population density of a subdivision has to do with "half as many" recreational opportunities.
Thousands of people are moving to Calgary every year (I'm from Montreal) not because there is nothing to do, but because Calgary has some of the best recreational opportunities in the world as well as job opportunities.
If you mean shopping as an activity, there is every chain store imaginable 3 exits away on Deerfoot Trail.
If you could show me pictures of a comparable density new single family homes area in Thunder Bay I'm sure it would look just as depressing to you. I'm sure much of urban Thunder Bay looks depressed and depressing, although it is blessed with being situated in a spectacular natural setting.
I think some of the new subdivisions in Calgary are some of the best places in Canada to raise a family, but they aren't for everybody, I have no interest in living in one, but I'm glad we have choice in the most dynamic housing market in the country.
________
Lovely Wendie (http://www.lovelywendie99.com/)

[1ajs]

aww vid you have never been to calgary have you? ever subdivision i have set foot in has some sorta park area let it be a gold course or a small park with play structures or even a soccer field that are all being used...... then theres the core so many trail to explore you can never get board theres things in calgary i wish winnipeg had like its wave pool in the ne part of the city now thats a well used comunity center... hocker areana food court wave pool with slides some other things in it also but still we all like to bitch about the burbs canada is alot difrent from the us.......

[PhilippeMtl]

Not my city, but this picture is impressive. (from WIKI)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Panofrontenac2.jpg

[401_King]

taken by dsearls on flickr
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/2050020562_599915e632_b.jpg

[caltrane74]

This city is in Canada?

How come I've never heard of it. Looks like it is in BC or something.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/2080183088_9759cce3a5_b.jpg

[Boris2k7]

This city is in Canada?

How come I've never heard of it. Looks like it is in BC or something.


Uhhh, that's English Bay in Vancouver.

[caltrane74]

looks cool...

The snow must have thrown me off.

[caltrane74]

skybean posted this

Nov 14, 2007

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2415/2027471012_269d64a226_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1336/1009947475_d223578d76_b.jpg

[Boris2k7]

looks cool...

The snow must have thrown me off.

Aside from simply being familiar with it, the one thing that makes it a dead giveaway is the tree on top of the building just above the crane.

[Canasian]

^^^^^Wow!!!!! Skybean's photos are great!!

Here are some from St. John's Monday, we had a power outage.
Before the outage
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa318/Canasian_2007/DSC_0009-2.jpg

Lights out!!!
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa318/Canasian_2007/DSC_0016.jpg

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa318/Canasian_2007/DSC_0013-1.jpg

[Jimby]

arriVa 1
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/2094655202_e8bac69671_b.jpg

-12, no wind
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/2094670104_540f3e76cc_b.jpg

heading south
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/2094661696_05d1c91612_b.jpg
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Startcraft 2 replays (http://screplays.com)

[1ajs]

^^^ nice shots of calgary

anyhow hydro fish eye
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2094767040_95280da79f_o.jpg

[Jimby]

shiny bright Nexen

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/2094100177_5ec280f7f1_b.jpg

Calgary has some great sandstone schools.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2094897264_517e4a694e_b.jpg
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[boden]

Those are fantasic pics there Canasian.

[raggedy13]

A few pics I took this week around Vancouver and North Vancouver. I've got a full North Vancouver photo thread up in the 'my photos' sub-forum and look for a Vancouver photo thread coming soon.

North Vancouver
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=142574

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/100_9889.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/100_9907.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/100_9913.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/100_9958.jpg

Vancouver

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/100_9872.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/101_0035.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/101_0060.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Dec%206%202007/101_0070.jpg

[1ajs]

http://www.pointdouglas.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/998.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/2095160279_d2ea2b02ae_o.jpg

[Boris2k7]

This one is a little old, from last year, but it doesn't really affect much
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/6345/299037794cfe9759d70byu1.jpg
© Kaptain Krispy Kreme, Flickr

Looking south down 4th Street SW
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4563/20823276499530ffac3eoga2.jpg
© G-Rant, Flickr

Windmills in the Crowsnest Pass, Pincher Creek AB
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9545/20915080490661c62db8bxt4.jpg
© TheShlee, Flickr

Train at Heritage Park doing its rounds
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2081/15845346560b8e8a723boaf2.jpg
© dpodiluk, Flickr

Trains passing through downtown Calgary, Rocky Mountaineer on left, Regular CPR Freight on right
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2153/9812018953e1798cfdbbki5.jpg
© CatCalls, Flickr

[Jimby]

Sunday sunset, Parkhill, SW Calgary

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/2099808708_fc9f08ff25_b.jpg
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[WaterlooInvestor]

I really like the pic of Calgary's Downtown by D'Arcy Norman, from Flickr

Waterloo Region - December 8, 2007

Skating at Kitchener City Hall

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Decembe.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-1.jpg

Christkindl Market - A festival of German Christmas

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-2.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-5.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-6.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-7.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-8.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-9.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-3.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/Kitchener%20Christkindl%20Market%202007/KitchenersChristkindlMarket-Dece-4.jpg

Waterloo Region - December 9, 2007

Bridgeport Bridge - Built in 1934

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/BridgeportBridge-December92007.jpg

Todd Bertuzzi's Kitchener Home (his wife is from the area)

Left Side
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/ToddBertuzzisHouse-900DeerRidgeCour.jpg

Right Side
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/ToddBertuzzisHouse-900DeerRidgeC-1.jpg

Hacienda Sarria - an old steel factory (parts dating from 1901) transformed into a home and public space reminiscent of old Spain. Art and Garden Shows and Symphony Performances have taken place here.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa262/AndrewEH/HaciendaSarria-1252UnionStreetKitch.jpg

Check out the inside: http://www.grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/may2007/grandmagazine_070509144756.html

"Warm and inviting, the vast open-concept, main-floor living area encompasses vaulted ceilings, archways and tiled floors."
http://grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/graphics/may2007/1021635-239781.jpg

"Arches reminiscent of a Spanish piazza surround the glass-roofed courtyard which was designed as a reception area for community organizations to rent."
http://grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/graphics/may2007/1021635-240229.jpg

"Light pours over the fountain set in the tile and cobble-stone floor of the courtyard. The balconies belong to four bedrooms and master suite on the second floor."
http://grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/graphics/may2007/1021635-240230.jpg

"Dining room. Candelabra cast a glow over the long table."
http://grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/graphics/may2007/1021635-240234.jpg

"The kitchen is modelled on a 500-year-old European farm kitchen, with a copper sink set into the white marble countertop."
http://grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/graphics/may2007/1021635-240235.jpg

Inside during the Communitech AGM: http://www.communitechblog.ca/
http://www.communitechblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/agm-web3.jpg

[gatt]

amazing photo.
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/6345/299037794cfe9759d70byu1.jpg

[Mille Sabords]

Ottawa, Monday December 10, a crisp -15 outside.

Mayor O'Brien and Kalheinz Schreiber share a quick breakfast before going to the office.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/CortinaFan/Ottawa/TlphoneDc2007017.jpg

[vid]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/2063047987_267df9c492.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tingywende/2063047987/)

A very Thunder Bay shot.

[Mille Sabords]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/2063047987_267df9c492.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tingywende/2063047987/)

A very Thunder Bay shot.

I remember from the time I was up there, that you guys have quite a big Finnish community, is that the reference here?

[vid]

Yes. The other reference was the tackiness. :frog:

[1ajs]

manitoba archives (vid you were wondering about this building here yea go)
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1853/hallzc6.jpg

the bay
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2816/bayyp4.jpg

graham mall at vaugh street
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4402/hydromz6.jpg

all off of vaugh street
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3560/hydro2kq1.jpg

portage and vaugh looking west
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portage and vaugh looking east
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more hydro shots
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9789/hydro3ni0.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1395/hydro4is6.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5527/hydro5zb2.jpg

hmm hmm :D even in the dead of winter we still ride our bikes :D
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5923/bikestr7.jpg

another hydro shot
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2107392589_b7aecd2b47_o.jpg

some sorta new club??? what ever was going on it was good music :D
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8827/bandim5.jpg

fun with bus's
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7254/portage3qz5.jpg

mts place and hydro rising
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/9383/portage5sc3.jpg

looking back from canwest global place (portage and main NW corner)
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9083/portage6mh0.jpg

mcdermot ave on my way to pastry castke for a castle club sandwitch hmm so good :slob: :slob:
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/5085/mcdermotjq0.jpg

was coming home from a wpgphoto club meeting at the downtown pony coral...

[brett.electrician]

some random shots from my photobucket account....

Victoria from a distance
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/brett420/IMG_2763.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/brett420/IMG_6265.jpg
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Mt Baker with uvic in the foreground
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/brett420/IMG_5793.jpg

Random Vic (hope there is no reposts here, not overly sober right now :-)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/brett420/IMG_5788.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/brett420/IMG_5012.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/brett420/IMG_4924.jpg

[harls]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/2103399345_5624e55ccb_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2380/2104173894_03d4ace267_b.jpg

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2105/2103405607_41ed529e0d_b.jpg

that'll teach 'em.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/2103407417_c6e9bbf1ab_b.jpg

[someone123]

Aerial shot of Halifax from eastcoastfocus on flickr. I've posted similar pictures before (some flights approach the airport from this angle) but this one's particularly clear:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/2109540678_ca411abdca_b.jpg

[raggedy13]

Great Winnipeg, Victoria and Gatineau(?) sets, and great aerials of Calgary and Halifax.

We got a sweet country. A little something for everybody to enjoy.

[boden]

Here are a few shots of Bellevegas taken in June.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1056/1478581873_c107907f7f_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1260/1479356380_72ba620afe_b.jpg

[harls]

Gatineau(?)

nah, those are Ottawa.

[someone123]

nah, those are Ottawa.

Aylmer and environs.

[CCF]

Though this was a neat picture of Regina and area found on flickr, credit goes to here http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadiabob/405106458/.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/405106458_c14a0a1700_o.jpg

[401_King]

lol, a whole lot of nothin except in that corner, is that regina in the corner there?

[1ajs]

kool first thing i though of was sask when i saw the rive vally

lol isn't that highway 11?

yea but 401 theres a huge ass lake not that far to the north attached to that vally... (note were looking south in this image)
http://www.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=50.677316,-104.82399&spn=0.09007,0.233459&t=h&z=12&om=1

[CCF]

Yes, that's Regina in the left hand corner. As 1ajs said, there's a "long lake" coincendently its name is Long Lake on the other side of the valley which has been taken over by cottagers from Regina.

[theman23]

There was some great lighting yesterday afternoon in Toronto (or maybe it was on Wednesday? I forget). I didn't have a camera, but if I did then you can bet the pictures would have been very nice. Even the RoCP buildings looked good.

[Wishblade]

Regina looks SO small!

Amazing picture though. I love aerial shots :)

[caltrane74]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/2110289690_313d3d4708_b.jpg

City Hall Toronto

[Keng]

http://kengillespie.com/img/v3/p346439796-4.jpg

[1ajs]

nice!

[Jimby]

Calgary, Friday afternoon from Rideau Place SW

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2203/2111855672_406b1aeba2_b.jpg

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Talisman Centre
First opened in 1983, Talisman Centre has become the second most widely visited multi-sport facility in North America
http://www.talismancentre.com
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[1ajs]

Calgary, Friday afternoon from Rideau Place SW

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2203/2111855672_406b1aeba2_b.jpg



whys the holy cross got a tarp on it?

man things sure have changed...

[Canadian Mind]

This thread needs moar Vancouver! :P

Calgary's looking good. I like. :)

[jeremy_haak]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/2063047987_267df9c492.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tingywende/2063047987/)

A very Thunder Bay shot.

Is that Hoito in the reflection?

[Jimby]

whys the holy cross got a tarp on it?

man things sure have changed...

Plus ??a change...
I'm not sure what's going on at the Holy, but I think they plan to do more day surgeries there, it will almost be a hospital again.
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[Jimby]

Bow river, Ogden/Bonnybrook area (SE of downtown) , Calgary
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/2102167347_45d4a60798_b.jpg


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[1ajs]

Plus ça change...
I'm not sure what's going on at the Holy, but I think they plan to do more day surgeries there, it will almost be a hospital again.
what :haha: man they sure wasted alota money on that place then closed it lol
remembers when it was abandoned for e a while there...

[Jimby]

what :haha: man they sure wasted alota money on that place then closed it lol
remembers when it was abandoned for e a while there...

The Holy Cross closure and the General Hospital implosion were both shameful wastes of buildings and needed hospital rooms. At least they didn't blow up the Holy!
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[1ajs]

the general hospital should of just been replaced not just completly shut down for good... oddly enuff i was in calgary when they emploded that thing lol as i was when that tank farm blew up

[Jimby]

the general hospital should of just been replaced not just completly shut down for good... oddly enuff i was in calgary when they emploded that thing lol as i was when that tank farm blew up

Don't come back! We can't afford to have anything else blown up! Just kidding, well, maybe a few things... :haha:
They did have plans drawn up to replace the General in phases, but implosion was easier. Now 9 & 1/2 years later, only phase 1 of The Bridges has been completed, the rest of the area is sitting vacant. It isn't like there is no demand for housing here, I'm not sure why the re-development is so slow.
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[1ajs]

proby cause of buricratic bull crap lol

anyhow stumbled across this photo today of the skyline on flickr

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2059/2104288613_8049cb8c45_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inn_nerd/2104288613/?addedcomment=1#comment72157603466255713

[caltrane74]

New member at UT posted this....

I was going through some old photos and I found these two of Spire. Taken July 2007 from the 8th floor of the Jazz building at 167 Church Street.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p203/g-mania/spire1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p203/g-mania/spire2.jpg

[ScottFromCalgary]

^Awesome.

[ErickMontreal]

:: Montréal ::
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/2090399685_0c175207c9_b.jpg

:: Sunlife Building ::
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2102570805_dc112e462b_o.jpg

:: The "Friendship Hall" reflection ::
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2265/2108693162_92fbd74df3_b.jpg

David Giral :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thepretender/2102570805/

[Jimby]

Wow! Great shots of Montreal.
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[1ajs]

nice montreal shots espeacly that 2nd shot

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

Man, Montreal kicks ass.

[1ajs]

Man, Montreal kicks ass.

would be even sweeter if it was not for the stupid language laws in Quebec that strangled its economy for so many years....

[Jimby]

would be even sweeter if it was not for the stupid language laws in Quebec that strangled its economy for so many years....

Can you imagine what Montreal would be like now if they hadn't lost the lead as the head office - financial capital of Canada to Toronto back in the sixties?
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[401_King]

skybean on ssc
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/55974659_3fc7952559_o.jpg

[Canasian]

Can you imagine what Montreal would be like now if they hadn't lost the lead as the head office - financial capital of Canada to Toronto back in the sixties?

Actually, it was after 1976. But yeah, can you imagine?

[ErickMontreal]

would be even sweeter if it was not for the stupid language laws in Quebec that strangled its economy for so many years....

There are more than that. You should read The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Separation by Jane Jacobs :

"For separatists in the Canadian province of Quebec, the nation is Quebec. For their opponents, either inside the province or outside it, the nation is Canada-including-Quebec. Canadians who are indifferent to the question of Quebec separatism are likely either to identify primarily with their own province, such as Newfoundland or British Colombia, or else to identify with a Canada which -for all they care emotionally- may or may not include Quebec. That is how I feel about the question. I will not try to justify it as rational, because the fact is that on some level of sheer feeling, not of reason, Quebec seems to me to be already separate and different from what I understand as my own national community. Not that Quebec seems to me inferior, or threateningly strange, or the wrong way for a place to be, or anything of that sort. It's just not my community."

"Now we need to bring Toronto into the story. Montreal used to be the chief metropolis, the national economic center of all of Canada. It is and older city than Toronto, and until only a few years ago, it was larger. At the beginning of this century Toronto was only two-thirds the size of Montreal, and Montreal was much the more important center of finance, publishing, wholesaling, retailing, manufacturing, entertainment -everything that goes into making a city economy."

"The first small and tentative shifts of finance from Montreal to Toronto began in the 1920s when Montreal banks, enamored of the blue-chop investments of the time, overlooked the financing of new mining opportunities which were then opening up in Ontario. That neglect created an opportunity for Toronto banks. The stock exchange which was set up in Toronto for trading mining shares merged with the old generalized Toronto stock exchange in 1934, and by the 1940s the volume of stocks traded in Toronto had come to exceed the volume traded in Montreal."

"During the great growth surge of Montreal, from 1941 to 1971, Toronto grew at a rate that was even faster. In the first of those decades, when Montreal was growing by about 20 per cent, Toronto was growing by a rate closer to 25 percent. In the next decade, when Montreal was adding a bit over 35 percent to its population, Toronto was adding about 45 percent. And from 1961 to 1971, while Montreal was growing by less than 20 percent, Toronto was growing by 30 percent. The result was that Toronto finally overtook Montreal in the late 1970s. "

Montreal's economic growth, on the other hand, was not enough to create a conurbation. It was contained withing the city and its suburbs. That is why it is deceptive to compare population sizes of the two cities and jump to the conclusion that not until the 1970s had they become more or less equal in economic terms. Toronto supplanted Montreal as Canada's chief economic center considerably before that, probably before 1960. Whenever it happened, it was another of those things that most of us never realized had happened until much later."

"Because Toronto was growing more rapidly than Montreal in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and because so many of its institutions and enterprises now served the entire country, Toronto drew people not only from many other countries but from across Canada as well. The first two weeks I lived in Toronto back in the late 1960s, it seemed to me that almost everyone I encountered was a migrant from Winnipeg or New Brunswick. Had Montreal remained Canada's pre-eminent metropolis and national center, many of these Canadians would have been migrating to Montreal instead. In that case, not only would Montreal be even larger than it is today, but -and this is important- it would have remained an English Canadian metropolis. Instead it had become more and more distinctively Quebecois."

"In sum, then, these two things were occurring at once: on the one hand, Montreal was growing rapidly enough and enormously enough in the decades 1941-1971 to shake up much of rural Quebec and to transform Quebec's culture too. On the other hand, Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe were growing even more rapidly. Montreal, in spite of its growth, was losing its character as the economic center of an English speaking Canada and was simultaneously taking on its character as a regional, French-speaking metropolis."

"These events, I think, are at the core of Quebec's charged and changing relationship with the rest of Canada. Things can never go back to way they were when an English-speaking Montreal was the chief economic center of all of Canada and when life elsewhere in the province of Quebec was isolated and traditional. These changes are not merely in people's heads. They cannot be reasoned away or even voted away. "

"A third of Quebec's populations is concentrated in Montreal. Not only will a declining Montreal have directly depressing effect upon that large share of the province's populations, it will have a depressing effect of the province generally. The city will become a poorer market for producers in the hinterland who now depend on it. It will be a declining source of city jobs for the population at large. Its all-important cultural function in the province's life will suffer."

"In sum, Montreal cannot afford to behave like other Canadian regional cities without doing great damage to the economic well-being of the Quebecois. It must instead become a creative economic center in its own right. That means it must cast up streams of new enterprises which, among them, take to producing wide ranges of goods now imported from other places, including other places in Canada, and which will generate new, city-made products and services that can be marketed outside of Montreal and Quebec as well as within; and it must become the kind of place where such enterprises can find the capital they require, and in turn generate more capital. "

"While it is quite possible that Quebec would do no better on its own than as a province of Canada, there is little reason to suppose it would do worse, and there are even some practical reasons, which I will touch in due course, for supposing it might to better. Furthermore, as we all understand, dependence is stultifying, and sometimes the obverse is also true. That is, sometimes independence releases new kind of effort, opens up formerly untapped funds of energy, initiative, originality and self-confidence. That has been the experience, for instance, of Norway when it broke away from Sweden at the beginning of this century."

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

:previous: Great post, dude. :tup:

[ErickMontreal]

:previous: Great post, dude. :tup:

No problem. :)

[401_King]

just to add to this discussion regarding finance...the TSX just bought the montreal exchange like last week.

[theman23]

There are more than that. You should read The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Separation by Jane Jacobs :


What a load of rubbish. We all know the real reason for Toronto's rise has to do with the Leafs. Who could resist moving to a city where you could see both Lanny McDonald and Darryl Sittler on a regular basis? I know my parents couldn't. I see something similar happening today with Antropov and Sundin. Expect a surge in Toronto's population any time now.

[ErickMontreal]

just to add to this discussion regarding finance...the TSX just bought the montreal exchange like last week.

I’d say this is not a done deal.