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Originally Posted by Razor
Slightly before my time, Montreal hosted the successful 67 Expo and they were awarded a MLB team maybe 9 years before Toronto. As a kid growing up in the 70's, the Habs dominated the decade in NHL, and Montreal hosted the 76 Olympics. The one where Nadia got all her perfect 10's! Montreal was definitely the face of Canada then, and was shining. So ya, it was about 76 that the process started due largely to the separatist movement. There was a saying that people could see all the Brinks trucks leaving Montreal to go to Toronto. Montreal is still the primate city for Francophone Canada, but it used to be the primate city for all of Canada..OH, I can't really think of another similar situation in another country where this power shift happened in the last 50 years or so.. Australia?..Brazil?
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It could be about to happen in Australia in the next decade... well according to ABS predictions.
Port Jackson/Sydney colony: 1788
Melbourne founded: 1835
Victorian Gold Rushes: 1850-1860 - Melbourne's population overtakes Sydney
Federation and post rush depression in Victoria: (1890s up to Federation 1901): Sydney overtakes Melbourne in population but politically Melbourne is at the heart of the new country.
Canberra founded, national capital officially moves: 1927
National politics/media/cultural institutes still very much centred on Melbourne until the 60s (hell our main spy agency didn't really move to Canberra until the 80s!)
Sydney pretty much the international finance centre (Melbourne has a very large presence with domestic banks HQs and superannuation/funds management) adn the international tourist gateway. But that's been chipped away slowly over 10 years. Melbourne airport international arrivals data now proportional to Vic population / punching above weight compared to severely underweight ever since Sydney airport/airfield was built a century ago.
Both metro areas (GCSSAs) are now over 5 mil and Melbourne growing on average 20-30k more than Sydney for over a decade...
Long-ish read on the upcoming Melbourne century:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/v...28-p53f29.html