Amazing, and crappy small cities/towns in Canada?

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We don't have enough big cities to make this interesting...so I'll opt for small little treausres.

For me:
Best, Sackville NB, Nelson BC

Worst: Keremeos BC,

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1. I like Victoria BC!

I like its quasi-British style, and it's a pleasant way to kill an afternoon visiting from Seattle. I always enjoyed myself there.

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4. YEah I like it there too

Lots of action on the streets during the daytime. Then at nine.,.....it's like that scene in condor man when the bad guys coem to town.

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2. Best: Thunder Bay, Ontario. Worst: Gatineau, Quebec

The reason I say Gatineau is because I went to Ottawa/Quebec suburbs this summer, and the absolute WORST traffic I had ever encountered in my life was in Gatineau. It took TWO HOURS to drive two miles. And I'm not fucking around. It was the Tuesday after the civic holiday weekend, but the largest mall in Gatineau (Les Promenades des Outaouis) that we were going to go to was CLOSED at 5:30 pm for some reason, but every other day of the week on the posted hours, they were open until 9pm. The traffic was horrible, and it was a normal Tuesday afternoon. It was like everyone in Ottawa was trying to escape into Quebec for some reason.

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3. Well, I spent a nice evening

in the town of Fort MacLeod, Alberta - http://www.fortmacleod.com/

It was actually an unfortunate situation... was hoping to make it from Calgary to Missoula Montana that day, but I got sidelined by a migraine. I stayed here - http://www.redcoatinn.com/ - and it was one of the nicest hotel beds I've ever slept in. (EDIT: No, *the* nicest! I'll just say it.) Grocery store right across the street too, and a full kitchen in my room for less than the rate I paid at a chain place in Calgary (not that that's particularly surprising, but anyway)

I don't have much experience with small Canada towns otherwise. The last time I had planned a trip to Calgary the car broke down in Cardston, so maybe that can be my worst (although nothing bad happened besides the car)

Gee I'm chatty.

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5. Sounds like you should stay outta wild rose country

not much luck there eh?

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6. Just the migraine and the car

I loved it otherwise! (I'm in eastern Montana so it was very familiar) Especially Calgary, which is 10 times more cosmopolitan than anything in Montana, honestly.

I've been in Montreal but, um, barely remember it.

One day trip to Vancouver BC... not nearly enough time there

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7. sigh

I have to leave cherished Vancouver soon for a while.

Stupid budding career.

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8. Ok, mine are in Ontario...

We haven't yet had any entries for Ontario yet, have we?

Best: Kitchener/Waterloo -- GREAT public transit system, thriving underground culture, THE best indie record store I've found anywhere in SW ON (Encore Records), booming tech sector economy, cool shops, two universities, nice people, the biggest Oktoberfest outside of Munich, what more could you want?

Worst: Arthur -- 2000 people, all of them sitting on the left-hand end of the normal distribution, intelligence-wise, nothing to do except drink in the ONE bar (ugh!), the worst public library I've ever seen, more hicks and semi-illiterate jack Mennonites than you'd care to shake a stick at, and not a whole lot else. Just an ugly piece of real estate, all round.

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9. Dude, how can you not like Keremeos?

Any place with Cathedral Provincial Park can't be that bad. If you haven't hiked Cathedral you need to do it ASAP. The entire Similkameen Valley is gorgeous! Keremeos also has the Keremeos Columns, which are very cool. All that and roadside fruit stands!

-Sufi Marmot, who has fond memories of his Keremeos expedition...

(Edited to spell "Keremeos" properly)

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13. The area around it may be nice.....but it's a dump

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10. Yellow Knife.................

never been there, but the name is cool.

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11. Worst: St. Catharines, Ontario

Imagine a small city built around shipping and auto production, both industries which are drying up. Unemployment is through the roof, the municipal governement is consistently conservative, and social services are whittled away, despite the abundance of heroin and crack which can be copped along the main downtown drag.

Imagine a geography so flat that the city simply sprawls outward indefinately, instead of cultivating a centre.

Imagine two seasons: stifling, humid heatwave or bitter, damp cold with a foot of snow on the ground.

Imagine the promise of a University, and the disappointment of discovering that the University's largest programs are Bach. Business and MBA, and PhysEd. Basically, every bar in town is populated with 19 year old jocks aspiring to be the next Patrick Bateman. Roofies, anyone?

Imagine a core of neonazi skinhead activity, and the home of the world's largest RW Christian film producer. Also the birthplace of the Christian Heritage Party.

Now imagine the hometown of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, Canada's most notorious rapists/murderers.

There, you're imagining St. Catharines, Ontario.


Best place in Canada? Canmore Alberta. I don't live there, but I've been there, and I find it a serene and magnificantly beautiful place. It's also where John Carpenter's "The Thing" was filmed, or so I'm told.

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14. I'm Mike...from Canmore

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12. eh...

Amazing: Churchill, Victoria

Didn't think much of, but then again was just passing through and maybe somebody else has a different opinion: Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat

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15. I like Dildo, Newfoundland

Ya gotta love the name. As they say, you can take a girl out of Dildo, but...