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#341 Nparker

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Posted 04 October 2017 - 08:47 PM

For some reason this song came into my head...



#342 Gary H

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Posted 05 November 2017 - 04:58 PM

Looking good, but oh do we need the Northern Junk development to proceed.

 

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#343 Nparker

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Posted 05 November 2017 - 05:08 PM

...oh do we need the Northern Junk development to proceed.

All the city has to do is approve this earlier proposal and work can start immediately

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#344 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 11 November 2017 - 01:15 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmm, why is that section of railing missing?

 

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Edited by VicHockeyFan, 11 November 2017 - 01:17 PM.

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#345 Nparker

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Posted 11 November 2017 - 01:40 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmm, why is that section of railing missing?

Perhaps David Foster will be installing that section himself.



#346 Rob Randall

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Posted 11 November 2017 - 01:46 PM

Protesters were railing against it. Myself, I'm on the fence.
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#347 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 11 November 2017 - 01:54 PM

I would have said they are going to put a look-out platform on the rock there, but that would not make sense with the polished concrete curb there.  Those curbs are quite attractive, by the way.  Almost looks like granite.


Edited by VicHockeyFan, 11 November 2017 - 01:55 PM.

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#348 Bingo

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Posted 11 November 2017 - 07:06 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmm, why is that section of railing missing?

 

 

Have they looked over at the scrap metal yard?


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#349 Nparker

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Posted 07 March 2018 - 12:23 PM

VicHockeyFan, on 07 Mar 2018 - 12:18 PM, said:

It's almost overkill, but it looks quite nice, close up.

Agreed, but it's still a lot of path for such a small piece of land.


Edited by Nparker, 07 March 2018 - 12:25 PM.


#350 thundergun

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Posted 07 March 2018 - 01:42 PM

Last time I went by this path was still closed off to the public. I understand that it leads to nothing (for years to come as well with the Northern Junk buildings being a ways from starting construction), but can't they just block off one end and open up the rest?



#351 GaryOak

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Posted 07 March 2018 - 03:01 PM

but can't they just block off one end and open up the rest?

I think it is to let the grass take hold.



#352 Hotel Mike

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Posted 07 March 2018 - 04:29 PM

The City should have gone ahead with the bridges in James Bay instead of doing Reeson Park's part of the walkway. They let staff bully them into what they wanted to do.


Don't be so sure.:cool:

#353 David Bratzer

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Posted 07 March 2018 - 10:46 PM

Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't feel a strong connection to David Foster. Nor do I understand why the harbour pathway is named after him. He strikes me as a successful musician but not a great role model.  These days he lives in an LA "bachelor pad":

 

EXCLUSIVE - David Foster takes DailyMailTV inside his L.A. bachelor pad and reflects on split from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Yolanda
  • David Foster took DailMailTV inside the Los Angeles apartment where he has been living for the past year
  • The legendary music producer has his own recording studio there and it houses his 16 Grammy Awards
  • Foster, 67, split from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star Yolanda after four years of marriage last January
  • He says the pair are 'good' and he is in still in contact with her supermodel daughters Gigi and Bella Hadid

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#354 Mike K.

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 06:52 AM

It would have made more sense for us to have the Emily Carr Harbour Pathway, wouldn't it have?


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#355 sdwright.vic

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 07:03 AM

^Emily Carr can't donate money
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#356 Nparker

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 07:07 AM

It would have made more sense for us to have the Emily Carr Harbour Pathway, wouldn't it have?

^Emily Carr can't donate money

Other than allowing his name to be used, has Mr. Foster actually donated any funds to the development of the pathway?



#357 Mike K.

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 07:51 AM

Yeah, I think $100k.


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#358 Cassidy

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 08:00 AM

Not to take away from Fosters accomplishments ... but I strongly agree with the above line of thinking. As a lifelong resident of the region, and somebody who actually saw Foster play live in the Strathcona Hotel, I feel no connection to him whatsoever.

 

His visits for local fundraising purposes occur once every few years, and beyond that he really doesn't have any sort of "real" connection here at all.

He sold his condo on the Outer Harbour, which pretty much demonstrates his intent not to set up a home of any kind here.

 

The Emily Carr Pathway thought Mike proposes above is far more desirable, and way more "feel good" than a David Foster nomenclature attached to one of our regions most stunning visual feasts.


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#359 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 08:33 AM

Americans and most Canadians do not know who David Foster is, less know Emily Carr.  I do not care what its called.   It's a Harbour Pathway, good enough.  Vancouver has a "seawall", not too sexy either.


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#360 Cassidy

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 10:48 AM

I think the premise might be that Emily Carr has a much deeper and profound connection to the Capital Region than David Foster does ... and thus might deserve more significant local recognition.

 

Carr built perhaps the major portion of her career while living in Victoria, painting at Mount Doug Park, and out in Metchoisin. She traveled elsewhere, but worked here,  always came back here,  and in the end died here.

Foster, on the other hand, left Victoria an unknown, to eventually discover fame in the United States. He has never returned to Victoria in any significant way.

 

But I agree it's not really an issue. Indeed, as VHF posits above, I'd rather see it named Harbour Pathway as opposed to its current David Foster nomenclature.



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