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Old Posted Jan 2, 2017, 4:34 AM
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Your favorite Ont. town/city with a population of 20,000

or thereabouts. No townships or suburbs please.

Some places that could be included are Brockville, Cobourg, Collingwood, Owen Sound etc.
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Old Posted Jan 2, 2017, 2:59 PM
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I'm gonna go with Amherstburg, a very underrated historic local town which sits at the mouth of the Detroit River and Lake Erie, in EPIC wine country.
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It's harder to be familiar with cities in this range since there are so many of them, but I'm quite fond of Owen Sound. It has a spectacular natural setting that I feel sets it apart from most cities in this population range. Additionally, it has a really interesting cultural blend of boomer hippies and more rural young-country types that makes it feel more gritty and blue collar while still managing to support an interesting blend of restaurants, coffee shops and other creative businesses. It has a well-preserved and well-used downtown as well, although it isn't quite as polished as some other small cities.
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^ I also feel I can't give an objective answer to this question simply because I haven't experienced the whole province yet.. but I'm gonna say of the ones I've seen, Brockville is my favourite. It's downtown is actually amazingly well-preserved & alive.
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I can't give just one. Cobourg, Port Hope, and Collingwood are all appreciated by me. I'll second Amherstburg too. There are likely more.

A lot of my favourites are much smaller: Elora, Goderich, Bayfield, Port Dover, Jordan, St. Mary's.

One of the things I love to do most is take long drives (often lasting all day) along the non-400-series highways and regional roads through rural and small town Ontario. I'll just pick a direction and go, see where the route takes me before circling back on different roads. Sometimes I'll stop and take a walk around the centre of town if I'm in one that interests me.
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Port Hope.
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Hm,, from the few places I've been in the province (mostly towards the south-west),I've really appreciated Stratford and Peterborough, along with several communities that technically don't meet this "20,000" population characteristic that's defined on the title. That being Goderich and St. Mary's, along with Bayfield.
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Hm,, from the few places I've been in the province (mostly towards the south-west),I've really appreciated Stratford and Peterborough, along with several communities that technically don't meet this "20,000" population characteristic that's defined on the title. That being Goderich and St. Mary's, along with Bayfield.
Um your choices of Stratford and Peterborough are also not considered - well over 20K.
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Um your choices of Stratford and Peterborough are also not considered - well over 20K.
Hm, 32,000 comparative to 20,000 is well over? Anyways, 20,000 isn't really a must for this thread, some of us know of towns that are smaller or larger.
That's also why I never really said these were communities of 20,000ish people, or said they were not. I only gave a slight hint as to it.
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My favourite is Kenora. Population is over 15,000 but under 20,000. I'm pretty sure that it has many more people in the Summer when Winnipeggers and other visitors are there. Kenora is situated on Lake of the Woods which is a huge and beautiful lake with many islands and the shares a border with Minnesota and Manitoba. Many businesses in Kenora are accessible by boat. I like how the Safeway grocery store has docks.

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^ I also feel I can't give an objective answer to this question simply because I haven't experienced the whole province yet.. but I'm gonna say of the ones I've seen, Brockville is my favourite. It's downtown is actually amazingly well-preserved & alive.
That would be my choice as well.
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Um your choices of Stratford and Peterborough are also not considered - well over 20K.
Peterborough is definitely out of range, being over 100k; Stratford, however, is only around 30K and is actually smaller than Owen Sound, which the OP provided as an example of the types of cities they were considering.
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Oh, you use the CMA of Peterborough? I was using the city limits sortof data, which was obviously hugely outta range, but still put it to about 78,000
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My favourite is Kenora. Population is over 15,000 but under 20,000. I'm pretty sure that it has many more people in the Summer when Winnipeggers and other visitors are there. Kenora is situated on Lake of the Woods which is a huge and beautiful lake with many islands and the shares a border with Minnesota and Manitoba. Many businesses in Kenora are accessible by boat. I like how the Safeway grocery store has docks.
agreed. I spent a few nights in Kenora during summer of 2014.
If I won the lottery, I'd definitely consider a summer place there.
It's truly a gem
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I may be biased being from Niagara, but I think Port Colborne is probably one of the most underrated small cities (pop ~19,000).

yes it's blue collar and a bit gritty, but it shines in the summer with so many beaches on Lake Erie, the big ships flowing through the Welland canal, fresh perch and pickerel, quaint shops on West St, leafy streets and some beautiful 19th century residential stock. It's (mostly) compact street grid makes it very "walkable" as well.
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Kenora is probably the prettiest town in Northern Ontario.
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Oh, you use the CMA of Peterborough? I was using the city limits sortof data, which was obviously hugely outta range, but still put it to about 78,000
Peterborough has a much larger population than some people realize. A former coworker of mine tried to claim to me that their population was well under 20,000.
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Kenora is probably the prettiest town in Northern Ontario.
I don't disagree with you Vid but do be fair... there isn't too much to compete with...
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Old Posted Jan 7, 2017, 4:07 AM
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I don't disagree with you Vid but do be fair... there isn't too much to compete with...
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If by "largest" you mean "only" It's easy to be best at something where then are only three in the first place.
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agreed. I spent a few nights in Kenora during summer of 2014.
If I won the lottery, I'd definitely consider a summer place there.
It's truly a gem
Lake of the Woods reminds me a lot of Lake Temagami. I couldn't believe that it's so far West yet is almost identical to what you'd find on our Eastern border.
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