At the time, it was still relatively small – at the edge of the megacity formerly known as Toronto. I really enjoyed growing up there, and I spent a lot of my youth biking around and enjoying the surrounding fields, woods and streams.

It’s now a giant mall/parking lot amalgam… so many open spaces that I recall are now rows of houses or sprawing malls.

I went to visit a couple friends that still live there, and there was no real place to sit and have a coffee… the downtown is a mere shell.

The entire city has been successfully WalMart-ized.