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The Great Canadian Grit Thread



Let's see the dirtiest, scumiest, most rundown scenes your city has to offer...

You all know Hamilton has grit so I won't post any pictures yet. I want to see grit from other places especially west of Ontario.
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Does it have to be inner-city industrial grit or do suburban ghettos count too?
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Oh Hamilton will be knighted as King for this thread lol
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DTES in Van will own this thread.
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Downtown East Side (DTES) in Vancouver


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(It should be noted that this collection of binners is in front of the amazing United We Can recycling depot, a spectacularly successful community-based business that provides full time jobs for more than two-dozen people and supports recycling cans and bottles as a livelihood for hundreds amidst the prevailing hopelessness of the DTES.)

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(This was during the homeless squat in 2001(?) along Hastings Street back when the DTES hit rock bottom)

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That's enough. It's getting better in many respects but the gyre of addiction, poverty, and mental illness is almost impossible to break. Harm reduction is helping cut down on ODs and the Province is finally starting to build social housing again, no thanks to Ottawa. The City has been meek and hugely over matched by the problem and the other municipalities, save for Surrey, haven't lifted a finger to share the burden. The critical events that sparked the DTES' final descent was the deinstitutionalization of mental health patients by successive governments over the last 25 years, chronic underfunding for community-based care and supportive housing construction, the arrival of crack cocaine, and the closure of Woodward's department store, which meant the general public really had no further reason to patronize the area.
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^ I still remembered going past the filming of a make-shift squatters camp in front of Woodwards as a part of a Da Vinci's Inquest episode
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Damn...that hell on earth is going to be hard to beat.
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Oh Hamilton will be knighted as King for this thread lol
If Hamilton gets knighted, DTES should be crowned as the king of all seedy areas

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I have so many gritty pictures from Hamilton I don't even know where to begin:























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You just hit one of my favorite thing in life, Grit.
If anyone is interested in touring industrial ruins in Montreal, send me a PM. I will be your guide with great pleasure.
Montreal win this thread, It was the most industrial city and it has this Philly-esque, Detroit-esque feel in some of its neighborhoods.
Hamilton is a much smaller scale Montreal.

Here are MY pictures of Montreal, unless otherwise noted I took them all. I added the name of their respective author on the picture if it's not mine.

The Canada's Steel foundry, built most of the hydro dams turbines in the world during the 20th century:








Ol grain silos:






In the 90s, Montreal looked more like Detroit than anything else:
















Lachine Canal, Montreal, picture by Charlie Dunver


Old City Works, Montreal


Montreal Steel Wheels , 1922-1980



Hard-knock life


Some gritty Montreal kids


A small panorama I took in 2007 from a train bridge showing an abandoned paper mill in east side Montreal.


My friend<s flickrL


" It is forbidden to go under the ovens when they contain molten metal" - Thanks for the advice!
Wolverine Metal Works, Eastern Montreal




Historic picture of South-western Montreal ( Mccord museum picture)



Alstom Canada Facilities


When the place was opened:
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Am I weird that I find Hamilton's gritty streetscapes strangely beautiful?

Honourable mention goes to Montreal, that city seems to have something for everyone from high society to skid row.

Great work guys, I enjoy the thread.
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^^No you're not weird, a lot of people like it. I love walking those old streets.

I knew Montreal had some nice grit too. I don't have many shots of industrial grit, I think Matt602 does though. Hamilton has the largest concentration of heavy industry in Canada. Montreal's port lands are bigger but Hamilton's are not much smaller and Hamilton is still the largest Canadian port on the Great Lakes. Many people don't realize the scale of residential, commercial and industrial grit in Hamilton. Streets like Barton or Cannon are lined with gritty buildings for miles and the north end has hundreds of Victorian factories. Hamilton was once the fourth largest city in Canada and it was all built on industry. Much of that industry died in the past 50 years. It's probably the most American of any Canadian city in that respect.
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More Montreal grit : The Ghetto fires. I believe we have the greatest ammount of ghetto fires per capita. In your face Calgary ( Joking)

All pictures from www.coderouge.com









Old abandoned flour mill going up in smoke




Abandoned mill


Lachine Canal Steel works fire, 1990s




One of the most toxic fire to ever happen in Montreal, They evacuated my neighborhood when it happened. The old Dominion Paint ( Lead contaminated) factory burning.




American Can Plant burning. This building was transformed in lofts after the fire!!







Old textile mill close to my house burning


Abandoned warehouse


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Not really ghetto but really impressive:
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Some Toronto grit, taken by http://www.flickr.com/photos/emangrooving/











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This is the greatest thread on this forum in a long time. Keep them coming, Even if it's from small towns or wherever.
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I have some nice grit from Brantford, Niagara Falls and Wallaceburg that I'll post later.


That one burning building in Montreal reminded me of the old Westinghouse HQ in Hamilton:

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Inside the abandoned St.Charles Hotel

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Also from Urbex, from inside the abandoned Avenue building on Portage Ave.
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Industrial Hamilton grit?? Yah I've got some of that.













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Are you on www.uer.ca ?
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Here's some from when I lived in Vancouver, all taken by me. And I would like to point out, not all were taken in the DTES. I really liked a lot of Vancouver's grit. It made the city feel real and well-used and made for great photo ops. The DTES side grit, however, any city can do without...







During the garbage strike last year:


















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