Calgary Water Cooler Talk Thread - Page 62

Calgarian · #**1221** Posted: **Aug 14, 2012, 10:24 PM**

And the skies start to darken yet again...

bigcanuck · #**1222** Posted: **Aug 14, 2012, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

High angle rescue is out to get stranded window washers on the 15th floor of a building on 5th avenue.

Hmmmm - my office is on 5th Ave and the window washers did wash our windows earlier today - I wonder if it was our building...

WIGS · #**1223** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 2:14 AM**

Didn't want to post this link in the Construction thread.
Someone just posted a pretty comprehensive photo tour of my old college/Uni stomping grounds
Buffalo, NY for those interested. Despite being "Rustbelt" it's definitely an underrated city.

Jimby · #**1224** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 3:08 AM**

Well, my "hometown" is 100 this year! Canada's first planned community, the Model City. It was a great place to grow up.
When I get asked which high school I went to, I say Mount Royal High and everyone says oh you mean Western?
No I don't!
The train tunnel under the mountain to downtown came first, and then the houses were built.
TMR was designed roughly using the design of the Union Jack with the train station in the middle of the town and 2 main boulevards crossing diagonally.

Town of Mount Royal Ville Mont Royal

I'm a Townie!

WIGS · #**1225** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 7:26 PM**

nice hometown Jimby! 100 years of looking down on Montreal

I like the part where the guy says Montreal was Canada's largest city in 1912. When you look at the list below its amazing how small every other current large/major city in Canada was
Largest Canadian Cities 1911
Rank City Pop. 1911 (~Pop. 2012)
1 Montreal, Quebec 490,504 (~1.6+M)
2 Toronto, Ontario 381,383 (~2.6+M)
3 Winnipeg, Manitoba 136,035 (~670k)
4 Vancouver, British Columbia 120,847 (~610k)
5 Ottawa, Ontario 87,082 (~885k)
6 Hamilton, Ontario 81,960 (~520k)
7 Quebec, Quebec 78,710 (~520k)
8 Halifax, Nova Scotia 46,619 (~390k)
9 London, Ontario 46,309 (~370k)
10 Calgary, Alberta 43,704 (~1.13M)

My hometown of Welland, Ontario was 5,300 people at the time (now 50k), nearby Niagara Falls-9,200 (now 83k) and St. Catharines a bustling town of 12,000 (now 131k).
for comparison sake: nearby American neighbour, Buffalo, NY was over 420,000 people at the time ranking it ahead of Toronto. my how that quickly changed (2010 pop. 261k, MSA-1.13M)

freeweed · #**1226** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 8:09 PM**

I'm astounded Calgary was in the top 10 100 years ago. I know there was a recent boom at the time, but still - the city was nothing more than a whistle stop only 25 years prior!

Jimby · #**1227** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 10:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by WIGS

nice hometown Jimby! 100 years of looking down on Montreal

Actually it is Outremont and Westmount that look down on Montreal. Townies aspire to move higher up the mountain!

WIGS · #**1228** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 11:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jimby

Actually it is Outremont and Westmount that look down on Montreal. Townies aspire to move higher up the mountain!

D'oh!

sorry Jimby, my ignorance is showing. I always assumed because of the park that the community was "above Montreal" as well

WIGS · #**1229** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 11:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

I'm astounded Calgary was in the top 10 100 years ago. I know there was a recent boom at the time, but still - the city was nothing more than a whistle stop only 25 years prior!

the pop. and ranking of 1911 helps explain why everything has been turning 100 years old lately (Stampede, Central Memorial Park, Calgary Library, Chinatown, etc)

It's also interesting how your hometown (I believe!?) Winnipeg grew so quickly and maintained a top 5 spot for so many decades until 2001.

Jimby · #**1230** Posted: **Aug 22, 2012, 11:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by WIGS

D'oh!
sorry Jimby, my ignorance is showing. I always assumed because of the park that the community was "above Montreal" as well

The view from my bedroom window was the other skyline of Montreal - the art deco buildings of the U de M campus, Oratoire Saint-Joseph with the "back" side of the mountain (Mont Royal) as the backdrop.

WIGS · #**1231** Posted: **Aug 23, 2012, 12:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jimby

The view from my bedroom window was the other skyline of Montreal - the art deco buildings of the U de M campus, Oratoire Saint-Joseph with the "back" side of the mountain (Mont Royal) as the backdrop.

neat! not as cool as main skyline but pretty neat nonetheless.

freeweed · #**1232** Posted: **Aug 23, 2012, 5:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by WIGS

It's also interesting how your hometown (I believe!?) Winnipeg grew so quickly and maintained a top 5 spot for so many decades until 2001.

Correct. But there's no way Winnipeg was top 5 in 2001. Calgary and Edmonton had long since passed it by the early 80s. Unless you meant top 10.

But yeah, Winnipeg was destined to become the commercial centre of central/western Canada until the 1950s/60s came along, and rail suddenly became a lot less important. Oh, and that little oil boom thing.

Innersoul1 · #**1233** Posted: **Aug 23, 2012, 8:39 PM**

Hey boys! Watch this video....do you think that it's real? I feel like it isn't!

http://www.wimp.com/bmwbullet/

WIGS · #**1234** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 3:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

Correct. But there's no way Winnipeg was top 5 in 2001. Calgary and Edmonton had long since passed it by the early 80s. Unless you meant top 10.

But yeah, Winnipeg was destined to become the commercial centre of central/western Canada until the 1950s/60s came along, and rail suddenly became a lot less important. Oh, and that little oil boom thing.

check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ties_by_census
It took a while for Edmonton to finally surpass The Peg

WIGS · #**1235** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 3:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innersoul1

Hey boys! Watch this video....do you think that it's real? I feel like it isn't!

http://www.wimp.com/bmwbullet/

is that kw5150's beemer? oh wait probably not since his takes 7+seconds to reach 100km/hr

I kid

kw5150 · #**1236** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by WIGS

is that kw5150's beemer? oh wait probably not since his takes 7+seconds to reach 100km/hr

I kid

haha.....Make a $5 t-shirt out of it! I kid too.

MichaelS · #**1237** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 3:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innersoul1

Hey boys! Watch this video....do you think that it's real? I feel like it isn't!

http://www.wimp.com/bmwbullet/

Not sure if it is real (wouldn't be surprised though) but a cool video though.

WIGS · #**1238** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by kw5150

haha.....Make a $5 t-shirt out of it! I kid too.

zing

freeweed · #**1239** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by WIGS

check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ties_by_census
It took a while for Edmonton to finally surpass The Peg

Oh - this isn't including metro areas. Edmonton has quite a lot of its population in other "cities" that border right up against it. Winnipeg has been a Unicity since the early 70s.

WIGS · #**1240** Posted: **Aug 24, 2012, 9:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

Oh - this isn't including metro areas. Edmonton has quite a lot of its population in other "cities" that border right up against it. Winnipeg has been a Unicity since the early 70s.

yeah Edmonton's CMA is not that much smaller than Calgary's CMA but in land area it's HUGE! like 4,300 sq km larger!