To save my feet and get a sense of the City, we got on the double decker tour bus this morning. Actually we had a partcularly good tour guide. My favorite story she told was about how there was a former governor who preferred English to Native American names and so changed the name of the town to York. However it was always being compared unfavorably to New York, being referred to as Little York or Little Smelly York so the peolpe of the town wanted it changed back. However the governor said "Over my dead body". "So we killed him, but in the typically Canadian passive-aggressive way - we waited for him to die and then changed it".
LOTS of building here. Feels like downtown Brooklyn in that way. Scaffolds and excavation everywhere. And so many condominium high-rises! As in Brooklyn, it's hard to imagine where all the people to fill the will come from.
