Ever since the ancient grass-topped homes constructed by the Vikings at L’Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland sometime around 1000 AD, Canada has had a glorious and noteworthy history of European architecture. One of the ways in which a society defines itself is through its architecture, and there are many examples of this across our vast nation. As a European diaspora nation which has historically kept its cultural ties to Europe perhaps a bit closer than the USA, Australia, or New Zealand have done, Canada has many great examples of historic European-style architecture, often adding its own northerly Canadian style into the mix.
The most noteworthy province in Canada for historic European-style architecture is definitely Quebec. I often tell visitors to Canada that Quebec City is “more European than Europe itself”, and that it should be a must-see on any excursion to the great white north. In terms of being northern and white, Quebec City is indeed more European than most of Europe — according to the nationwide 2011 National Household Survey, the Quebec City metropolitan area is 94% of European descent, with almost half of the remainder composed of aboriginal people. This means that non-European immigrants compose only 3% of the population, an astoundingly low number by the standards of any major city in a western country. ...
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/06/immigration-threatens-european-style-architecture-in-canada.html
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