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A view of four small municipalities across Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the shores of the Great Lakes. Watch them adapt and grow to the world around them.

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A Fond Farewell.... II?

By beebs,

A fond farewell.. Well ladies and gentlemen.. apparantly, I just can't get away. I just wanted to let everyone know that the images have all been restored (I think..)! Unfortunately, I will still be ending this CJ as it is. I did enjoy working multiple cities at a time, however I've begun to hit developmental walls and wasn't willing to continue a cycle of destruction and rebirth as we have seen already in Capilano Valley. I'm hoping to start a new CJ up at some point to run in tandem with Hamlets Across...
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A Fond Farewell..

By beebs,

A fond farewell.. As some of you may have noticed, my the images in my previous updates haven't been showing up for about 3 weeks now. I had them hosted on a personal website which I have since let expire into the internet graveyard. As such, all the images are lost in internet oblivion (except for the originals on my hard drive, of course ). Because of this and a few other factors, I've decided it's time to retire SAC. I may work on reuploading the CJ images to Photobucket and get everything back online...
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Today, we'll take another look at the Kingsway area.. this time to the east of the mall! See? I told you there was no greenspace. An old development, the Kingsway Towers sit directly across the mall from 127 St. (the road with the underpass). Much like the towers we showed you before (and you can see at the bottom left), these are highly populated by students and other low income families, enjoying the low costs of living close to a mall and public transportation. Noise pollution is obviously a minor...
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Hello again, folks! Lets take a gander just outside of downtown now, where we find a few more goodies. Kingsway Mall can be seen to the north, with the appropriately named Kingsway Towers complex to the south. Not the most pleasant area of town, but the mall can still attract a healthy group of tenants. There is a planned renovation and expansion of the mall sometime next year. To the left, you can see one of the old interchanges, one that has existed since Red River was but a small farming community. It...
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Welcome back! I had a bit of inspiration today and such here we are.. two updates in two days! Must be a modern day record for me. Anyways, lets see whats going in the future of Red River.. There's a new bridge over the river! Well not yet.. under construction. After 120 years of life, the province has decided it's time to retire the old bridge, completed in the mid 1990's. Progress appears to be going well, with the structure coming along very nicely on the western bank. Looking down the eastern bank, we...
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Welcome back! Apologies for the long delay between updates.. I've gotten awfully busy with real life lately and haven't had much time to tinker around in SimCity. Hopefully things are easing up a bit here though! Now....Time to take another journey through time into the future of Red River.. lets take a peek at what things look like juuust north of the downtown core. Hopefully this shot will help place you.. if you were to go just a little bit further down (south), you'd see that half...
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Red River: Fort Souris

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Update time! Just a quick look at where history sits, today. As mentioned in the history, the old Fort Souris was approximately 5 km east of the townsite, placed on the bank of the Red River. While the original site has since been dismantled and is now a preserved site by the province, a small recreation of the fort has been built just upstream from the first home. Built with the original style and with similar materials, the fort seeks to show visitors what life was like for the early fur traders and what...
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Spruce Grove: Downtown

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Update time! Apologies for the delay, I was forced to format my computer over the weekend.. things were becoming nearly unusable. Worry not though, everything was able to be backed up just fine! Anyways, lets see what Spruce has for us today.. The heart of downtown! The city recently purchased a few buildings where the avenue sits now, to make way for the expanded avenue. Many residents were frustrated by the decision but agreed it was necessary to alleviate many of the traffic woes. And as mentioned in...
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Update time! Sorry for spending so much time in the Valley.. You might say inspiration has struck. Hopefully inspiration is turning out for the best. Some of you may have noticed when I first showed Capilano's downtown that it cut off at the edge of the city tile... wondering where the rest of downtown went? Wonder no more! Here's the bit that you couldn't see. The city is currently in the planning phase with Omni Hotels (who owns much of the land around the Capilano Omni Hotel) for a large park/boardwalk...
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Capilano Valley: Cabins

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Update time! Just a quick one, with yes! New stuff! Some of you might remember that I promised this a while back.. if you remember.. here ya go! If not.. well, I hope you enjoy anyways. The elusive mountain cabin! There's a few of these hidden up in the mountains around the valley. As more and more land is becoming protected, these cottages are becoming prime real estate, some cabins this size fetching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars... cost varying on the views the lot carries. Most aren't built...
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Spruce Grove: New NAM

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Here was my adventures with the FAR. Took a while to get things working right. Aerial view. I'm sure the FAR roads will be a mainstay in the towns from here on out. And er.. that's all folks! I promise some genuinely new content next time.. I've been reusing a fair bit of older stuff for the last few updates. Stay tuned!
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Red River: New NAM

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Update time! I didn't get quite as much done as I was hoping, I was having some issues with the new FAR pieces.. regardless, lets take a peek. Exit off the Trans Canada near the edge of town. The town is considering turning the area around the pond on the left into an information/city park type area. Just a little further down, just the highway curving with some farmland on the side.
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Update time! Not the NAM update quite yet, just a quick showing of a new area I've got cropping up. Well.. "new". It's just on the other side of the mountain from downtown Capilano Valley. Lets take a look.. Small commercial area over in the area too.. the Tims is quite popular. Often, customers have to park on the street because of the small parking lot. Another angle. Residents aren't too impressed that the city cheaped out and didn't build sidewalks along the avenues over here. And a little further to...
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Moving on to Spruce now, we can see one of the storm drainage ponds up at the top. There's a few of these around town, mostly in areas built within the past decade. Creates an attractive feature to new neighborhoods. Closer view of the pond. Its a popular walking area for local residents. The far side of the pond. And that's all for now, folks! Check back next week, when I'll have a full NAM update to show! Until then..
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Red River: Repaving

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Update time! Finally! Apologies for the late reply, work was getting the best of me for the past few weeks. I've just finally had a chance to get a few things done today, so it's not much of an update.. anyways, lets see what I've got in store! Red River residents are quite pleased with the recent repaving of the Trans Canada passing through town. Rumor has it around town that the province is considering a full upgrade of many of the overpasses through town.
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Update time!! Moving further on in Capilano Valley, lets have a peak at downtown. Downtown! Whoo! You can see the Milennium Square at the bottom (re-built and re-named in late 1999, obviously ), previously known as Capilano Square. The name change was somewhat controversial among residents, many of whom prefer the old name to the new one. I'm sure you all know how people hate change. The DoubleTree Hotel near the top of the image was one of the first "high-rises" constructed in Capilano Valley.. back in...
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Huge thanks to porter66062 for winterizing the banners! Thanks a bunch! Update time! Lets take a quick peek at Capilano Valley.. I've got a bit more rebuilding done, with a new commercial area to show off! Ah yes.. Oak Center. Lovingly named for the once majestic oak trees that lined the avenue, the trees were all killed by disease and have been cut down over the past few months. Replanting is starting to occur as well. Further down in Oak Center, you can see a few trees already replanted. The city...
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Spruce Grove: Mosaic

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Huge thanks to porter66062 for winterizing the banners! Thanks a bunch! Update time! I had some time tonight, so I decided to do a bit of work over on Spruce Grove. Things are starting to come along nicely now! As you can see, development is starting to take its usual sprawling form. Pretty soon we should find ourselves at a nice little greenbelt that cuts through the city, made for some high voltage power lines running through. And McTaggart Rd. The city is planning to expand the road to 2 lanes both ways...
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Huge thanks to porter66062 for winterizing the banners! Thanks a bunch! Update time once again! Doing something a little different here in this update.. the keen eye will notice a small addition to the banner. Taking a jump into the future to see Red River as a bustling city of ~450 000... in the year 2108. Let me know what you guys think and I might do a few more of these kind of updates.. heck maybe even break it off into another CJ. Either way (good or bad ) let me know! Now enough of my babbling.. lets...
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Huge thanks to porter66062 for winterizing the banners! Thanks a bunch! Update time! My updates may become a little more infrequent over this month.. working retail during christmas sorta drains you a bit. In any case, here's a small update for Red River. Hopefully I'll be able to a bunch more tonight on my night off to supply a few updates. New neighborhood! Yay! As you can see the area is still very much under construction and there are a few lots in stage 1 yet to be sold. Best hurry... they're selling...
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Update time! Hurrah! I got some progress done on Capilano Valley tonight, so just a little update on whats been done. Another of the schools around the valley. Capilano Ave. making a bend. I'll have to update the region map for the valley soon, as I've had to rename some roads, nevermind the networks being all wonky because of the changes in the area. Hopefully within the next few updates I'll be able to produce that for you guys. Remember the nice roundabout we used to have? Here's that intersection now....
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YAY update time! Apologies for the delay, I was a few thousand km away from my computer, by a pool. But we're going off topic now.. I finally got enough to give ya a bit of a Capilano Valley update, so here it is! Across the river from the mighty interchange, we've got a bit of redeveloped residential. It keeps the same sorta layout, with the avenue and everything, just sorta "updated". And yes, I did somewhat eliminate Capilano Park. Fear not, it will make a return somewhere else in the valley. And here's...
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