Toronto/Montreal equivalents - Page 14

Acajack · #**261** Posted **Dec 6, 2022, 8:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blix61...ith/322634669/

I see Yarabundi, GDS, Serge, Habsfan, MTL-514, TV-Man, Floraleca (spelling?) , BD.. did I miss someone? Bueller?

There were... girls!

harls · #**262** Posted **Dec 6, 2022, 8:47 PM**

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There were... girls!

This was a tame Smoked Meet.

Doady · #**263** Posted **Dec 6, 2022, 9:07 PM**

I remember MikeToronto even running for city council once. A deep passion about real issues, not the shallow and petty politics that dominates the SSP "community" and elsewhere now.

whatnext · #**264** Posted **Dec 7, 2022, 6:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by hipster duck

^Well, sure. Basically any area in Canada built after about 1955 is suburban in character.

Most of the City of Vancouver was built out by the 1950s, so it would be less suburban in character than most of Scarborough or Etobicoke.

You’d be surprised how much of the City of Vancouver was built out after WW2. Anything around Oakridge, old Quilchena golf course, Fraserview, Killarney…

harls · #**265** Posted **Dec 7, 2022, 9:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

What about vid? Didn't he have the record for most posts on the forum? I swear it was like 60,000+.

Vid took off like a hoser. I think he's friends with Signal though.

yaletown_fella · #**266** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 1:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by Docere

Interestingly travelling up Avenue Rd. you get a bit of a Westmount-ish transition. Av and Dav, Summerhill, Rathnelly etc. have a sort of lower Westmount vibe. While upper Westmount sort of feels like the top of the Avenue Rd. hill.

Clarendon Avenue and some of the stuff west of Spadina and South of St Clair also comes to mind , in this case the Nordheimer would be Mt Royal park

MolsonExport · #**267** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 3:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

There were... girls!

And cigarettes! The good ol' days.

Luisito · #**268** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 7:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

There were... girls!

Are there any still on this forum?

MolsonExport · #**269** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 8:22 PM**

Not since Chad left.

Docere · #**270** Posted **May 15, 2023, 10:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

Clarendon Avenue and some of the stuff west of Spadina and South of St Clair also comes to mind , in this case the Nordheimer would be Mt Royal park

Good comparison. The Deer Park-Casa Loma-Rathnelly area is pretty Westmount-like.

Docere · #**271** Posted **May 15, 2023, 10:21 PM**

Some differences in how Montreal and Toronto developed:

1. Montreal was a city of apartments and flats, Toronto a "city of homes"

2. Montreal's rich tended to form exclusive municipalities (Westmount, Outremont, Town of Mount Royal, Hampstead), leading to the Swiss cheese pattern of municipal boundaries on Montreal Island today, while Toronto's rich neighborhoods mostly remained part of a larger municipality (Forest Hill being the main exception as it was an independent municipality until 1967)

3. The city proper of Toronto in 1930 was fully built out, while Montreal still had undeveloped territory in city limits until the 1940s and 1950s.

harls · #**272** Posted **May 16, 2023, 1:08 AM**

Montreal has no beach equivalents. You can't count the filthy St. Lawrence fleuve.

Lake Ontario. 2016 - Toronto Islands

Loco101 · #**273** Posted **May 16, 2023, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Montreal has no beach equivalents. You can't count the filthy St. Lawrence fleuve.

Lake Ontario. 2016 - Toronto Islands

Hey is that one of the images in the new passport of a young Justin Trudeau about to surf?

Docere · #**274** Posted **May 16, 2023, 10:15 PM**

If you lop off Scarborough, Toronto minus Scarborough and Montreal Island are very similar in population and land area.

Toronto minus Scarborough 2,165,000 442 sq. km (171 sq. miles)
Montreal Island 2,004,000 472 sq. km (182 sq. miles)

kwoldtimer · #**275** Posted **May 17, 2023, 2:08 AM**

As much as some Torontonians might like to lop off Scarborough, it seems an odd way of looking at things.

Docere · #**276** Posted **May 17, 2023, 3:40 AM**

Demographically, Scarborough is in many ways the most distinctively Toronto area and hard to give a Montreal "equivalent." Also it was the last part of Toronto to be built up. So there's a logic there.

harls · #**277** Posted **May 17, 2023, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Loco101

Hey is that one of the images in the new passport of a young Justin Trudeau about to surf?

I will let my kid know you think he looks like Justin

Docere · #**278** Posted **May 20, 2023, 2:34 AM**

A history of the Hill District, Toronto:

https://scenesto.com/2022/06/15/the-...hill-district/

shappy · #**279** Posted **May 21, 2023, 7:10 AM**

harls · #**280** Posted **May 22, 2023, 11:24 PM**

Is there an equivalent of Roncesvalles in Montreal? I can't think of one.