I don't even understand what everyone is fighting about. Brett said he wants to cast as wide a net as possible. Calgary's parks are fine, as is everyone else's. And small cities like mine, Kelowna, etc... it is how it is. They can only be as urban as we are. Just share your information and pictures, enjoy the others, and be done with it.
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Saskatoon has very impressive parks. I knew about a couple of those from seeing those pictures before, but the whole thing looks great.
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A few pictures of the ones I only had Google Earth views for before. It takes a long time to go back through my records.
One from Bowring Park. This is the end that's closest to the downtown (the park is kind of linear - part of it extends out to Mount Pearl). I don't have any of our replica Peter Pan statue, or the Caribou Memorial, so went to Flickr for those:
Bowring Park..! Image18 by
SilverShade, on Flickr
The Fighting Newfoundlander by
Hugh D Newman, on Flickr
St. John's Festival of Lights by
Greg Noel, on Flickr
And a few from Quidi Vidi Lake. The trails are elevated wooden pathways through marshland on the opposite side, but on this one they're gravel.
It's not all beautiful, though. The hideous Southcott Building and Her Majesty's Penitentiary are right on the lake.
royal st. john's regatta by
michelegross, on Flickr
One more from Harbourside Park and the National War Memorial. The first one was of the Harbourside Park half, and this one is the other half (the park is cut in two by Water Street), just below the steps of the Memorial.
And a Google Streetview of the backside, up on Duckworth.