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lenaitch said:
Although I admittedly have not studied any related legislation, and am aware that there are some loose guidelines (i.e. a 'city' is supposed to be over 10K), I am of the view that these various titles are just monikers; they use 'city when they want to be seen as 'in the big leagues' and 'town' if they want to project ' small town hominess. Other that being over some rather arbitrary population cut-off, there is no part of the City of Kawartha Lakes that fits a reasonable definition of 'city', any more than the Town of Oakville has any relationship to a reasonable definition of a 'small town'. At least some municipalities have decided to not even play the game; the Municipality of Chatham-Kent comes to mind.
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Let's not forget about Quebec. Due to a quirk in French, "ville" means both town and city (yes, French has a word for city, which is "cité," but it's not used often). Because of that, Montreal is Canada's most populous town, despite Montreal being officially a city in English.

Not just that, but in Canada, once a settlement officially becomes a city, it remains a city forever, even when significantly depopulated, such as Dawson City.
 
Sandpit said:
No, which is why Richmond Hill is not really interested in becoming a city. It made sense for Markham to do it because they're bigger than Vaughan but were a "town", while Vaughan was a "city".
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That's interesting if that's the case now, but I don't believe that used to be the case 20 and more years ago. There used to be an increase in funding levels from the Province as the municipality grew from a Village to a Town to a Borough to a City. As far as I know this was why East York made such a point of maintaining its borough status long after they could have become a city. It was a point of institutional pride that they could make do with less.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.
 
smallspy said:
That's interesting if that's the case now, but I don't believe that used to be the case 20 and more years ago. There used to be an increase in funding levels from the Province as the municipality grew from a Village to a Town to a Borough to a City. As far as I know this was why East York made such a point of maintaining its borough status long after they could have become a city. It was a point of institutional pride that they could make do with less.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.
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IIRC that was the case before 2012 or so, which is why Markham waited till then to change. I believe changing from town to city was also a relatively difficult process that required Provincial approval too. But after 2012, it's basically just a rebranding exercise.
 
Johnny Au said:
Not just that, but in Canada, once a settlement officially becomes a city, it remains a city forever, even when significantly depopulated, such as Dawson City.
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That might be a matter of the word "city" being part of the proper name as opposed to some form of municipal designation. We have King City which was never much more than a village and even today, according to Wiki, has a population under 7K as part of King Twp. I have no idea what the municipal designation rules are in other provinces/territories.
 
nfitz said:
To serve Durham Avenue they'd have to convert the nearby emergency exit to a proper station.

Which seems fair enough - it's a long way between St. Clair West and Eglinton West stations! Durham/Markdale isn't a bad location - about 900 metres south of Eglinton West! :)

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Supposedly there was a proposal for a station between Cedarvale and St. Clair West however the community rejected it.
 
nfitz said:
To serve Durham Avenue they'd have to convert the nearby emergency exit to a proper station.

Which seems fair enough - it's a long way between St. Clair West and Eglinton West stations! Durham/Markdale isn't a bad location - about 900 metres south of Eglinton West! :)

https://joshuakg.tumblr.com/tagged/Markdale
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A station there would make Bessarion look like a bustling metropolis by contrast! ;)
 
nfitz said:
To serve Durham Avenue they'd have to convert the nearby emergency exit to a proper station.

Which seems fair enough - it's a long way between St. Clair West and Eglinton West stations! Durham/Markdale isn't a bad location - about 900 metres south of Eglinton West! :)

https://joshuakg.tumblr.com/tagged/Markdale
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I meant Durham Region...
 
Leo_Chan said:
micheal_can said:
Where would it meet Highway 7?
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Leslie, Woodbine, Town Centre, Warden, or Birchmount?
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Where are you getting that from?

The options are laid out at the project website - http://www.relieflinenorth.ca/ The study area reaches to Markham along Steeles between Yonge and Victoria Park, which could provide significant relief to the Yonge Line.

Personally I like Option 3, which take over (or run along) the Richmond Hill GO line, allowing for it to reach Yonge Street quite cheaply and above-ground once it got to Lawrence. None of the alignments are lining up for Warden or Birchmount or "Town Centre".

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