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Old Posted Apr 24, 2021, 8:19 PM
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When and where is this from? I looked on Google Maps, admittedly not for too long, but it didn't look that bad.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/T8isA819LGxncyxq8
That's not the same area, this is the Southside:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/WpRScKizqzsM9g477


Almost nothing left

The town hit rock bottom probably in the early 2000s. It has stabilized in recent years.
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2021, 8:22 PM
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Moose Jaw, despite being the smallest of these 3, is the medium-sized Prairie beauty at the top of the pack. Lots of history, and very well preserved downtown.


https://www.moosejawtoday.com/local-...rnment-2412272

Downtown Moose Jaw by Brian G. Kennedy, on Flickr

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Lethbridge is very close to Moose Jaw in the top of the pack, but it's three times the size, so I'll give the edge to MJ. At ~130,000, it's now over half the size of the Regina CMA, while for most of its history it was about a quarter the size. The catch-up happened over the past 40 years.


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https://www.johnmcneill.ca/listing/A...berta-t1j-2b2/

https://www.uleth.ca/about/about-lethbridge

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https://nikkayuko.com/blog.asp?bnID=2842




Brandon is also high up in the pack.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanscott/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanscott/

https://www.travelmanitoba.com/blog/...he-wheat-city/

https://www.travelmanitoba.com/blog/...he-wheat-city/
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2021, 8:42 PM
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2021, 8:44 PM
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A few of our also-ran, Corner Brook. I’ve not been since 2014 (it’s on the other side of the island, about 8 hours drive away). Population today is a little over 20,000.

It’s not especially urban but it benefits from the same thing as St. John’s, forced self-sufficiency through isolation. It’s much more outdoorsy than St. John’s, and much more provincial. People there hate St. John’s, many of whom have never been, and they align much more with Canada - I honestly think if you did a poll more have been to Halifax than here.







It has the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University, which traditionally has been very focussed on visual arts, forestry, and environmental sciences.





Again, the core has two commercial strips on opposite ends. West Street is the more North American general one, the company side of town.







Broadway was outside the company’s control and has a more typical Newfoundland look.







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^ I've been to Swirsky's. Corner Brook gives more of a small town urban experience, the Broadway area is a bit like a western frontier town main street. It's a resource industry based town after all. Corner Brook is comparable to Yellowknife in population.


Yellowknife, population ~ 20,000, gives a true urban experience in terms of it's skyline.



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Old Posted Apr 24, 2021, 9:25 PM
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Downtown Sarnia is not very vibrant...I would say it is quite the opposite. Brantford too.

Just when downtown London was starting to get its mojo back, covid has robbed the place of life. Hopefully, the fairly large number of new (and under construction) highrise residential towers will breath new life into the core whenever covid finally is beaten.
I’d be curious if Sarnia has benefited at all from the border restrictions due to Covid. I’ve been to both Sarnia and Port Huron a number of times, Sarnia always seemed depressing with a lot of abandoned storefronts and a lot of emptiness in the Lambton Mall, while Birchwood Mall across the river was always a hive of activity (with probably 60% Ontario license plates in the parking lot), and downtown Port Huron seemed to be doing alright relative to at least Sarnia’s downtown. Now all the Sarnia residents have to shop on their side of the river.

On the flip side I can only imagine what Port Huron’s economy is like right now. They relied heavily on Canadian shoppers, and I believe they’re the smaller of the two cities at the Bluewater Bridge.
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I'm a vet student that lives in Charlottetown for the school year and I personally love it here. The downtown has many historic buildings, is walkable, and doesn't feel so much like a small town as I thought it would before I first came here.



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I haven’t been, but what I’ve seen of Shawinigan looks solid for a city of 50K. Especially considering it has a secondary core in Grand Mere.

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I still think I could hack living in Kenora. Walk, bike, and boat.


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I haven’t been, but what I’ve seen of Shawinigan looks solid for a city of 50K. Especially considering it has a secondary core in Grand Mere.

Yes.

I recently Shawinigan, and it offered a dense Montreal-style plex and small apartment coverage across much of the city. It's downtown has a main street that has solid bones. In fact, the bulk of the city is in good shape and looks very urban. However, I visited it on in February during Covid, so the city was very empty and quiet.


Shawinigan__Shawinigan_Series_018 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


Tower_in_Shawinigan_for_Shawinigan_Series_01 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


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St-Bernard_Dep_in_Shawinigan_Series_10 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


Downtown_Door_Featured_in_Shawinigan_Series_13 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

It's city hall is a beautiful 1940's art deco building.


Shawinigan_City_Hall_in_Shawinigan_Series_14 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


Depanneur_in_Shawinigan_Series_15 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

And of course the city is built around the Shawinigan Falls, which used to be the name of the city (Shawinigan was built in the turn of the 20th century by Anglo-Montrealers and American investors).


Shawinigan_Falls_in_Shawinigan_Series_17 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

I thought it was remarkable how that small city had street after street of plex-rows, with the standard depanneur at most street corners. Clearly the city has seen better days, I'm hoping for a re-emergence at some point.
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I visited Shawinigan a couple of years ago and thought it was overall pretty pleasant. The core is pretty dense and looked sort of similar to Montreal but it was obvious that the vibrancy of the Plateau was absent there. Still, though, nice bones and lots of potential.
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I still think I could hack living in Kenora. Walk, bike, and boat.
Uh, for the three months of the year when it isn't -20.

A couple of friends and I hopped a train from Winnipeg to Kenora once. The grain cars have platforms at each end, and they move pretty slow up near Higgins and Main. Had dinner in Kenora and then pitched a tent for the night on the outskirts of town. Caught a train carrying automobiles back to Winnipeg, and sat in comfort in various cars and trucks. We even started them up, put them into drive and rattled the chains holding them down.

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I still think I could hack living in Kenora. Walk, bike, and boat.

Stayed there a couple of times for work and Kenora always gave me some weird vibes. The downtown is nice enough with solid bones and some interesting places to go out (one of the nicer ones in Northern ON for sure), plus the scenery is gorgeous. Some of the most glaring inequality I've seen in my travels throughout the province though. Walking from the round waterfront hotel to the LCBO felt a bit like Moss Park in parts with a very visible down and out population. Having patio drinks I also saw both OPP and local Reserve Police accosting people on the streets (not tourists, obviously). This was near the end of summer when tourism season would have been winding down, and during the week so fewer weekenders. I can only imagine it's kinda dead during winter.

Better than Dryden though!
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Kenora has an interesting landscape. I'd play that map were it Cities:Skylines.
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Kingston deserves some love in this one. I have many friends there and visit a few times a year. Lots to do and a lovely downtown core filled with restaurants, pubs, and small businesses. Definitely hits above it's weight class given it is a city with <150000 people. If you ever find yourself in Kingston, make sure to get a reso at Chez Piggy; one of my all time favourite restaurants.


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I kind of feel like St. Mary's, Ontario deserves a little love too. Population 7200 and their main street is still pretty much alive. But the person who said St. Thomas was pretty urban? Pay another visit

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St. Marys is a looker for a small Canadian town. Check out all the mansions surrounding the downtown on Street View, it's impressive. They've even got a couple of hipsterish restaurants.

It's an isolated town without much going on, though. Some rich outsiders are retiring there, but the young adults who don't leave are doing meth.
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I kind of feel like St. Mary's, Ontario deserves a little love too. Population 7200 and their main street is still pretty much alive. But the person who said St. Thomas was pretty urban? Pay another visit
Downtown St. Thomas is a dump, and the rest of the city is basically suburban London, just with an agricultural gap between it and the actual London.
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Castlegar didn't become a city until 1974 so it is lacking all of the heritage buildings that Nelson/Kaslo/Rossland etc. has so I will not suggest it for this thread.
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Shawinigan: I had no idea. A mini-Montreal (or perhaps, a mini Trois-Rivieres) vibe is certainly on the offering, at least as suggested by those wonderful brick walkups. Plus, the hometown of the man who gave us the Shawinigan Handshake.

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