Post some pictures of your city!

[MTLskyline]

View from Tour de la Bourse.


Montreal Skyline by barnyz, on Flickr

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Bad ass. The Core is probably the nicest downtown mall in the entire country. So clean and modern and nice. The shopping absolutely sucks, but the mall itself is very nice and the glass roof is pretty wicked.

I've never been to Calgary, but the nicest one I've been to thus far is Les Cours Mont Royal. It's a bit over the top to the point of being tacky, but a nice break from the usual.

Les Cours Mont Royal


I actually prefer this mini-mall in Montreal, but it's more of a concourse than anything else:

Connected to the InterContinental Hotel

[Surrealplaces]

Taken by me. Cowtown on a summer day.

[Martin Mtl]

I took these pics during a two hours walk tuesday morning under an unpredictable sky.

I went from Le Quartier des spectacles to Chinatown and then the western part of Old Montreal, Le Quartier international and Paper hill.

[Rico Rommheim]

Wow. Fantastic set man, this ought to have its own thread in the photos section

[davidivivid]

Gorgeous shots!! The Centre de Commerce Mondial is probably one of my favourite Montreal building.

[MTLskyline]

We are so fortunate that most of Old Montreal has remained in tact unlike the downtown/Golden Square Mile area.

[davidivivid]

Finally!! The Nouvelles Casernes (New Barracks) are now protected by Quebec's heritage laws even though they should have had that status for such a long time since this building arguably is the single most important heritage building standing in the city. The government will start by investing $1.5M in order to solidify the structure built from 1748 until 1752. I unfortunately may have to thank the forthcoming elections for this news but at least the job is getting done.

Constructed around 1750, the building called the "New Barracks" (Les Nouvelles Casernes) contained armouries, stock rooms, a guard room and six prison cells. Soldiers of the Compagnies franches de la Marine and the Troupes de Terre who arrived in 1749 stayed in the barracks until the end of the French rule.

After the conquest, the barracks lodged soldiers of British infantry companies and later those of the Royal Artillery Regiment. In the 19th century, the Dauphine Redoubt was used mostly as officers' quarters of the Royal Artillery. The New Barracks, however, retained their previous use as barracks, armouries rooms, store rooms and a prison. After the fire in 1816, the commander in chief of the Royal Artillery Regiment set up his quarters in the extreme west of the building. About this time, British soldiers began calling the sector "Artillery Barracks, Yard and Ordnance Stores". The industrial life of the area began in 1879, when the Canadian government converted the barracks (which had been abandoned since the departure of the British troops in 1871) into a cartridge factory to manufacture ammunition for the Canadian Army.

In 1901, the cartridge factory experienced large-scale growth and the name was changed to the Dominion Arsenal. Two years later, the large brick iron foundry building was erected in the gorge of the St. John bastion and in 1908, the old parade ground disappeared under a huge workshop built beside the barracks building.

During both World Wars, the Dominion Arsenal played a predominant role in Canada's war efforts. Several thousand men and women of Quebec worked there. In 1945, the Arsenal became part of Canadian Arsenals Limited, a Crown corporation. The factories of Artillery Park slid into decline as the production of ammunition shifted to other workshops of the conglomerate. They were closed permanently in 1964.

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[Symz]

Wow, those barracks are awesome. Definitely something worth preserving.

[Martin Mtl]

Great news for Quebec city!

[caltrane74]

Ferrari californias, Maybachs, Bentlys and Rolls Royces in force in Yorkville tonight











Next Year the Party moves to the new Four Seasons

They will have a Ferrari Lambo Carpet designed into the bricks, so the cars can model.



Here is the Home of the Top Level Players in Yorkville next year


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Now that the Four Seasons is up applications are in for three towers on the otherside of Yorkville.
The Money is moving around.

83 - Floor (Holt Renfrew)
69 - Floor (Menkes Yorkville - Tower 1)
55 - Floor (Menkes Yorkville - Tower 2)
200 meter - rumoured Cumberland Terrace Tower

[Surrealplaces]

Montreal at Night by Surrealplaces, on Flickr


Montreal at Night by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[MonctonRad]

DOWNTOWN CHARLOTTETOWN PHOTOTOUR

Although I have lived in Moncton for more than 20 years, I spent the first 21 years of my life in Charlottetown PEI. Although I no longer have any family on the Island, I still have a very soft spot for the city. Charlottetown is less than 2 hours from Moncton (with the bridge), so I get back 2-3 times per year. These pictures were taken yesterday. Enjoy!

Looks pretty urban for a CA of 58,000.


The old Dominion Building is being reborn as a mixed use development with condos on the upper floors and commercial/retail on the ground floor.


Restaurants and cafes along Richmond St.


Looking down the east side of Queen St. towards the waterfront.


A little further up Queen St, near Confederation Court Mall.


The Confedereration Centre of the Arts, the national memorial to the Fathers of Confederation.




Confederation Centre again, with the Holman Grand Hotel and Confederation Court Mall in the background.


Corner of Queen and Kent Street.


The Charlottetown Hotel on Kent St.


Condos on Pownal St.


The Dundee Arms Inn, one of a number of quality small inns in the downtown core.


The new federal government building at the corner of University Ave and Fitzroy St.


The Homburg Financial Tower, immediately across Fitzroy St from the new federal building.


Plaza in front of the new federal building. This is a very green building.


The Science and Technology Centre, across University Ave from the federal building.


Alley behind the technology centre. Again, pretty urban looking for a small city.


Looking west along the south side of Kent St. This shows the north side of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters building.


Park in front of the provincial legislature building.


The legislature with the provincial cenotaph in the foreground.


The Holman Grand Hotel with restored heritage building facades on Grafton St.


The Department of Veterans Affairs national headquarters on Grafton St.


Looking towards Great George St, a national historical preservation district, from the provincial legislature.


The front of the legislature with a provincial government office in the background.


Great George St streetscape.


Great George St again. It is this street that the Fathers of Confederation walked every day when they commuted back and forth from the colonial legislature to their ship during the confederation conference in 1864.


Saint Dunstan's Basilica on Great George St.


The Bishops Palace on Great George St.


Water St streetscape, with the Delta Hotel in the background.


Corner of Water St and Queen St.


The Delta Hotel again. There is a new convention centre under construction on the waterfront that will connect to the Delta.


Provincial lawcourts building on Water St.


Charlottetown City Hall in the foreground.

[Surrealplaces]

From my front porch


Front Porch Lightshow by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[MTLskyline]

Great shots MonctonRad! Charlottetown does have quite an impressive and lively downtown for a small city. I just hope that all the sprawl that's getting built there won't kill it.

[bulliver]

Yes, nice pics. We don't see much of Charlottetown here...

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

Charlottetown does have quite an impressive and lively downtown for a small city. I just hope that all the sprawl that's getting built there won't kill it.

There are danger signs. There is more and more power centre type sprawl on the northern outskirts all the time. There are also more vacant storefronts than I'm used to seeing, especially in the Confederation Court Mall.

The downtown remains more lively than most cities this size though, and the city is too small to attract the worst offenders to the suburban strip malls so there may be some hope. The tourist traffic downtown in the summertime also helps a lot......

[Copes]

The Royal St. John's Regatta occurred yesterday. Here are some pictures from North America's oldest sporting event.









Great view for the prisoners of one of the oldest operating prisons in the country.














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[Log1988]

Here are a few shots I took around downtown Port Coquitlam this morning.

[Martin Mtl]

By me, from yesterday.