Basically if you took London's city hall and pushed down on it, making it spread out a bit and gave it a much bigger forecourt, you get Hamilton's (well ok, not a great comparison but they both have the council chambers on stilts in front thing):
Technically, Corner Brook is the fourth-largest municipality in Newfoundland and Labrador but it's still considered by most people to be the province's second city. That's probably because it's the only large municipality that isn't in the St. John's CMA. It's located on the west coast and has metro population of just under 27,000.
They have an old City Hall with a modern extension. Cheaply done, overall, but looks quite nice.
__________________ Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
It's interesting how you can see the continuum between more traditionally Canadian/Quebec-style architecture in Eastern Ontario and Midwestern architecture by the time you get to Windsor. When they go to Montreal, some people think that the limestone buildings (e.g. Bonsecours Market) are more or less direct French colonial era transplants but really they are an indigenous style that was popular all along the St. Lawrence and connected waterways.
There's a similar transition in Atlantic Canada when you go from the Atlantic coast to the Bay of Fundy area and PEI and then central and northern NB. Some of the differences are due to geology; you find more brick in the areas with appropriate clay soil. Wood is popular in areas with granite and harder rock that is very expensive to quarry. Nicer buildings in NS use Wallace sandstone or granite. Earlier buildings also used pyritic slate (ironstone) because it was locally available.
Sherbrooke looks like it's partway along the Quebec-New England continuum too.
I'm still moving around and have a hard time identifying a primary residence these days (friends and family that I don't see that often find me hard to track), but as of nowadays those two city halls are by far where I send the most money yearly in property taxes, in that order.
Old City Hall 1958-2000. Now one of two Federal Foreign Affair buildings (the other being the 1973 Pearson Building next door). Renamed the John D. Deifenbaker Building in 2011:
Transportation building used as a "temporary" City Hall 1931-1958 after the second City Hall burnt down. Built in 1916, it is now part of the Rideau Centre and will serve as one of three entrances to Rideau Station.
First City Hall, built by Nicholas Sparks (considered one of the founders of Ottawa) as I don't know, a barn maybe. Anyway, as City Councillor he donated the thing in 1849 to Bytown to be converted to a City Hall/West Market Building/Fire station. It continued to serve this purpose until they built the new one next door in 1877.
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