[theman23]

While browsing Google maps, I noticed that just about every single home in Quebec city (or at least, a solid majority) appears to have a pool in the backyard. What is going on here? Is there some bylaw that requires a certain number of pools for every new residential development?

[Acajack]

This is cross-Quebec phenomenon. Seen from the sky, my neighbourhood in Gatineau looks like part of Los Angeles! It’s interesting because if I scan southwards on Google Earth to areas like Kanata and Barrhaven just across the Ottawa River in Ontario, the number of pools you see drops by more than half!

Apparently, some 44% of all the residential swimming pools in Canada are in Quebec.

[Serge]

Summer is short, we try to live it at MAX. It's a spring thing... Sales sales sales... on pools.

[MolsonExport]

This is cross-Quebec phenomenon. Seen from the sky, my neighbourhood in Gatineau looks like part of Los Angeles! It’s interesting because if I scan southwards on Google Earth to areas like Kanata and Barrhaven just across the Ottawa River in Ontario, the number of pools you see drops by more than half!

Apparently, some 44% of all the residential swimming pools in Canada are in Quebec.

I read somewhere long ago that proportionately, Quebecois travel less during the summer months, preferring to enjoy the nice weather at home (hence the pools) than do other Canadians. But I also read that come winter, it is the reverse, with proportionately more Quebecois heading south to Florida and other sunny climes.


Growing up in suburban Montreal, we had a backyard pool. As did about half the people on the block.

[gatt]

This is cross-Quebec phenomenon. Seen from the sky, my neighbourhood in Gatineau looks like part of Los Angeles! It’s interesting because if I scan southwards on Google Earth to areas like Kanata and Barrhaven just across the Ottawa River in Ontario, the number of pools you see drops by more than half!

Apparently, some 44% of all the residential swimming pools in Canada are in Quebec.

i don't know for the 44% but i can say that Gatineau have alot and a lot of pools inside it's city limits.

[CamQueb]

One of Lévis's neighbourhood. Haha!

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/6927/piscinelevisrn0.png

[theman23]

A shot of a random suburb in the 416:
http://i27.tinypic.com/hvaywn.jpg
Not very many pools at all. It seems to be the same throughout Ontario, though Ottawa seemed to have a bit more (But still not at the level in Quebec).

[Acajack]

Wow! Thanks for posting that, theman23! That’s very revealing, especially when you consider that Toronto has a warmer climate than Quebec City (or any areas of Quebec for that matter).

Ottawa might have more pools than Toronto because it has more francophones than Toronto? Just a theory. (Franco-Ontariens can be quite different from Québécois in some ways, but also very similar or even virtually identical in others.) It would be interesting to see how many pools there are in western suburbs of Ottawa like Kanata, where there are relatively few francophones, and and Ottawa suburb like Orleans in the east end, where francophones are between one-quarter and one-third of the population.

[Rico Rommheim]

I have to admit this is somewhat intriguing, always though suburban TO had plenty of pools.

[Dirt_Devil]

Some other Quebec suburbs:

http://img2.putfile.com/main/4/10718302487.jpg


http://img2.putfile.com/main/4/10718302427.jpg


Some new house owners are so anxious to get their pool that they get one before their terrain has grass...

http://img2.putfile.com/main/4/10718302454.jpg

[Chmeee]

Some new house owners are so anxious to get their pool that they get one before their terrain has grass...

On a fait ça quand j'étais jeune... ça limite pas mal les dégâts

[Acajack]

Some other Quebec suburbs:

(images)

Some new house owners are so anxious to get their pool that they get one before their terrain has grass...



Sapristi!

[Jimby]

Amazing to see the google shots. Why drive to a summer cottage when your backyard can be your private resort?

[champdemars]

C'est effectivement une mode typiquement québécoise, que d'avoir autant de piscines...

J'avance une hypothèse: l'eau est GRATUITE au Québec.

Mettez un compteur d'eau et vous verrez que ça va prendre le bord assez vite. Brossard est la seule ville au Québec, à ce que je sache, qui a des compteurs d'eau. Ce serait intéressant de regarder sur Google Maps la différence.

[Dirt_Devil]

Sainte-Foy aussi a des compteur d'eau....et les piscines sont aussi nombreuses qu'ailleur.

[Acajack]

C'est effectivement une mode typiquement québécoise, que d'avoir autant de piscines...

J'avance une hypothèse: l'eau est GRATUITE au Québec.

Mettez un compteur d'eau et vous verrez que ça va prendre le bord assez vite. Brossard est la seule ville au Québec, à ce que je sache, qui a des compteurs d'eau. Ce serait intéressant de regarder sur Google Maps la différence.

Je ne vois pas le rapport entre les piscines et les compteurs d'eau. Une fois remplie, les gens n'ont presque pas besoin de mettre de l'eau dedans pendant le reste de l'été. La mienne est présentement remplie à ras-bord en raison de la neige fondue et de la pluie. Je n'aurai même pas à mette le boyau dedans avant de l'ouvrir pour la saison.

En passant, Westmount a des compteurs d'eau aussi je pense.

[gatt]

Wow! Thanks for posting that, theman23! That’s very revealing, especially when you consider that Toronto has a warmer climate than Quebec City (or any areas of Quebec for that matter).

Ottawa might have more pools than Toronto because it has more francophones than Toronto? Just a theory. (Franco-Ontariens can be quite different from Québécois in some ways, but also very similar or even virtually identical in others.) It would be interesting to see how many pools there are in western suburbs of Ottawa like Kanata, where there are relatively few francophones, and and Ottawa suburb like Orleans in the east end, where francophones are between one-quarter and one-third of the population.


je ne crois pas qu'il y a beaucoup de piscines à Kanata.il ne se construit pratiquement que des townhouses avec de minimes terrains.je travaille beaucoup là-bas et j'en vois pas beaucoup.