Talk:Amalgamation of Winnipeg

POV Check
Seems like the author has a personal viewpoint and a personally invested tone. terms like "disastrous mistake" and "usurpation" are good indicators of this. Needs a fresh start. 24.79.92.100 14:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Fact check
"Winnipeg's population has grown by only about 20% in the last 35 years, while that of Calgary has tripled, and those of Vancouver and Edmonton have more than doubled." - to attribute that fact to the city merger in 1971 without ANY citation is pretty silly. I'd imagine the oil boom in Alberta might have *something* to do with Calgary and Edmonton.... Someone who knows a bit more about Winnipeg than me should take a new stab at this article.24.79.92.100 14:36, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

The fact remains that Winnipeg's population has grown by only 20% since 1971. How do you explain Vancouver's growth or Saskatoon's for that matter? I don't think the article attributes slow growth to the city merger but I would suggest it points out that Unicity has failed to reverse Winnipeg's demographic and economic decline.

Whichever the answer, citations and actual facts are required.24.79.92.100 14:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It is nonsense to compare Winnipeg's growth to Calgary's in the context of this topic, as Calgary has had a unicity structure since it annexed a number of communities in the 1960s. (Forest Lawn, Bowness, Montgomery) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.144.196.36 (talk) 01:22, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Calgary does not have a unicity structure. It didn't experience any situation similar to the unicity situation in Winnipeg. There was no two-tiered system in effect for the Calgary area in the 1960s. There was no simultaneous amalgamation of Calgary with its three urban neighbours by the province in the 1960s. Calgary absorbed three of its urban neighbours, one at a time, under three separate amalgamations between Dec-31/61 and Aug-15/64. This is very much unlike what Manitoba did to Winnipeg and its neighbours. The term unicity in this context is unique only to what happened to Winnipeg in the 1970s. Hwy43 (talk) 19:59, 17 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Amlgamation of Winnipeg's suburbs could be more closely be compared to amalgamation of Edmonton's suburbs. Calgary really never amalgamated much, it just kept growing. Jimj wpg (talk) 01:56, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Philosophy and religion
I think the term unicity is also used in the context of philosophy and religion, when discussing the topics of platonism and monotheism. ADM (talk) 10:57, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Doughnut effect
I think this needs fact check - true it happened in many US cities - but not sure where else this happened in Canada - not Vancouver, and as far as I can tell not Toronto or Montreal either where city centres remain vibrant (and in Vancouver expensive and with a growing population - as evidenced by the construction of a new elementary school already at capacity). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.218.83 (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Four years later... I've removed this as it was unsourced and in no way is Winnipeg's doughnut effect comparable to that of Detroit. The doughnut effect in Winnipeg and in most other Canadian cities is due to the demographic trend of empty nesting where the number of people per household decline as children move out, not like in many American cities where there is mass out-migration from inner city neighbourhoods and houses are abandoned. Hwy43 (talk) 10:03, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge
Except for the last sentence, all content at City of Winnipeg Act is essentially presented already within this article. I propose City of Winnipeg Act be merged into this article. Hwy43 (talk) 10:07, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Unicity
Amalgamation of Winnipeg and Unicity address identical topics. Reqesting that both articles be merged into one. Jimj wpg (talk) 01:50, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Good! Per W (talk) 05:44, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , what exactly are you proposing? Unicity redirects to here. How does one merge a redirect with this article? Hwy43 (talk) 07:33, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I made a booboo and wasnt paying attention. I deleted the templates. Jimj wpg (talk) 07:36, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah. I see now. While you were replying I journeyed further down my watch list and observed the boo boo. Feel free to slap me with a WP:Trout. Hwy43 (talk) 07:39, 11 October 2019 (UTC)