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Originally Posted by esquire
St. Catharines/Niagara, though... what a weird beast. It's like a good sized Canadian city, but really spread out and without the usual big downtown. The whole thing feels kind of odd.
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It's spread out because it's a collection of cities and towns that rose thanks to railroad and water access(2 Great Lakes, Welland Canal, Niagara River), also direct access to the United States border from three locations.
Oh and one of the first places in North America to get electricity (thank you Niagara Falls)
which is why St. Catharines and Welland used to be industrial behemoths.
Couple that with some of the most fertile agricultural land in Canada (as another forumer stated) and there's a reason it looks as it does. There's almost 100 wineries in the region now, with still countless acres of "traditional" farms and fruit farms.
(Now if only we could block the GTAers from moving here and causing the housing prices to rise at unprecedented levels)
