03-12-2016, 09:50 PM
(03-04-2016, 06:37 PM)DHLawrence Wrote:(03-03-2016, 09:59 PM)jgsz Wrote: Many of the very expensive services are already provided at the Regional level. More can be added and in time Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge will be like Bridgeport, Centreville and Doon. A name that placates the parochially minded.
Or we can go the Mississauga route with all the different parts keeping some identity but forming a greater whole.
Incidentally, I don't see the name Cambridge lasting long after amalgamation except maybe to refer to the Hespeler Road-Pinebush-Franklin area. Forty years on, the rest is still Preston, Hespeler, Galt, and Blair, and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come.
Although I'm not sure how much of Mississauga's residents at the time of its amalgamation were tied to a particular community as opposed to just being random subdivisions in suburban Toronto. Only Streetsville and Port Credit were incorporated as towns and those two towns were only about 10% of Mississauga population at the time. The rest were living in the rural townships, some in small villages but probably a good chunk in suburban style subdivisions that weren't really attached to any of the historic villages. IE I'm not sure how many lived in villages like Clarkson and Cooksville vs subdivisions like Park Royal and Applewood.