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Winnipeg actually has the highest concentration of pre-war apartment blocks in Canada (also the highest %age of pre-war buildings in general). It's one of my favourite things about the city's built form and one that I'm immediately drawn to when wandering around. Probably because they're not very common in Alberta. The only other Western cities that have many of them are Vancouver and Regina (which came as a shock to me), but it's not quite to the level of Winnipeg. Even Toronto doesn't really have that many because its early WASP settlers wanted to preserve an aesthetic of pastoralism in the city, hence the prototypical Toronto residential form being the Victorian Bay-and-Gable. Home still stacked tightly together, and often multi-unit, but denoting a sense of a semi-detached house, rather than Montreal's triplex, New York's tenements, Philly's rowhomes, or Chicago's 3-flat.

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