Smalltowners!!

[God's strange grrl]

hey ya...i come from a small town, Chatham, oN...ne body else liv in a small town here?!

 

[bound2him]

I'm a few hours from there welcome!

 

[New Creation]

I'm from Windsor and I have to tell ya sister, Chatham is NOT a small town!!

Now I live in Egmont British Columbia, population 160!

Now THAT is a small town!!!

We have one general store, a post office, a restaurant/pub, a fish plant, a wilderness camp and a community hall.

p.s. How's the Wheels Inn? My sister used to go there for New Year's!!

 

[sunshine]

hey, I've heard of Chatham! have acquaintances that live near there

btw, welcome to CF

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

i live in pembroke ont. our biggest attraction is walmart and the 3rd biggest canadian tire in canada in a town of 14500

 

[Obadiah891]

Hi this is my first time to this site. I live in Sudbury Ontario. its only 90,000 I lived in Toronto before here. I have lived in smaller towns my dad was military and we lived in Chatam N.B., Summerside PEI, North Bay Ontairo, zwiebrukken Germany,

 

[Breetai]

I think my home town of Dryden, ON(8000 or so people) has the largest Canadian Tire between Winnipeg and the Soo.

Sudbury is not small! lol, I guess it might be if you came from Toronto. Hey North Bay, I like that place.

Welcome to Cf by the way.

 

[fishstix]

I grew up on a farm. Can't get much smaller than that

 

[fishstix]

i live in pembroke ont. our biggest attraction is walmart and the 3rd biggest canadian tire in canada in a town of 14500

14500 is most definitely a city. In fact, anything 5000 and over is a city here.

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

no we are a town, trust me on this one.
our town is right beside CFB Petawawa

 

[fishstix]

no we are a town, trust me on this one.
our town is right beside CFB Petawawa

Legally in this province, anything 5000 and over is a city, not a town. What is the legal population of a city in your province?

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

no idea.

 

[Breetai]

14500 is most definitely a city. In fact, anything 5000 and over is a city here.

lol, that's because it's Saskatchewan.

I believe that, at least in Ontario, a town 'applies' to become a city. A city has different tax benifits then a town does. My high school City of Dryden is 7-8000 people. They voted to become a city because, as I understand it, it was easier on taxes or they got more government money annually. Something like that.

A nearby town, Fort Frances, has a population of 9000 people. It is concidered a town, not a city, even though Dryden has a smaller population.

 

[fishstix]

In other words, Toronto could decide to be a small town if it wanted to?

 

[Breetai]

In other words, Toronto could decide to be a small town if it wanted to?

That was pretty funny.

No, I believe that there is a size limit. If Pembroke is about 15,000, then it must be more then that. I've always thought that after 10,000 a town had to be called a city.

 

[fishstix]

That was pretty funny.

No, I believe that there is a size limit. If Pembroke is about 15,000, then it must be more then that. I've always thought that after 10,000 a town had to be called a city.

Ok, well then that's what I want to know - what's the size limit in Ontario. I know that it differs by province, and here in SK it is 5000.

 

[fishstix]

Here are the minimum populations for various kinds of communities in SK:

City - 5000
Town - 500
Village - 100
Organized Hamlet - 50
Hamlet - 5 occupied dwellings averaging less than 1 acre.

Anything from village upwards is legally considered urban.

 

[Breetai]

Hamlet - 5 occupied dwellings averaging less than 1 acre.

Does that mean that the entire province of SK should be considered an Organized Hamlet?

 

[fishstix]

Nope. Farms are a whole lot more than 1 acre And SK has lots of farms

 

[Breetai]

Ah...I see the light. And if I was in SK, I could see the Battlefords and Moose Jaw too, all at the same time. lol