Talk:Hawkesbury, Ontario

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Also, Hawkesbury boasts the largest percentage of white trash per capita in all of Canada. --

While I don't directly support the above statement, I take issue with the description of the downtown as being very attractive. The core is made up of ugly storefronts and empty commerces. The construction on the outskirts of town hasn't helped this at all, of course, moving commerce to the outskirts of the city to the ever-present 'big box stores'. There is not one place in the downtown area that would seem sufficiently inviting for a coffee, cake and a moment of relaxation. No place for an ice cream or anything else. Why on earth did City Hall allow developers to build retail stores on the outskirts of town while dozens of business spaces sit empty and abandoned on Main and other streets? Now, there is no “heart of downtown”.

Why have the City Fathers and Mothers done so little to try to beautify the town? Much can be done with benches, flowers, trees etc. Why is there no effort to make much of the river that runs through the town? There should be restaurants and coffee shops on those shores as one would find in other towns..

Do you think this statment is O.K?:

It has a very nice neighbourhood called 'Mont-Roc' built during the 1950-1980 era where the elite live.

It's the "nice" I'm wondering about.I'm not sure if it's neutral enough for Wikipedia.--Granpire Viking Man 13:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

As a former resident of Hawkesbury, I cannot refute the "white trash" statement. Theres a joke in Hawkesbury that asks "why does the population of Hawkesbury never change? Because every time a baby is born, another dead-beat dad skips town" Per capita, Hawkesbury is rumored to have one of the worst drug problems in Canada. However, I feel that wikipedia is hardly the venue to trash talk a dirty small town. Like the population or not, the town does attract tourism to Eastern Ontario, due mainly to it's close proximity to Grenville and the cottage country there-in. In regards to the "Mont-Roc" statement, after having lived in the town for a year and the surrounding area for the majority of my life, I don't recall ever hearing the name Mont-Roc. The downtown area consists of one main street and the store front are gawdy and outdated. It brings to mind East End Montreal, with dirty back alleys and lackluster architecture.

I disagree with the comparison to East End Montreal: both areas are poor but there is some uniformity in the architecture in the East End with some very fine buildings and streets. Nothing fine or anything resembling “architecture” exists in Hawkesbury. There is little but ugly “siding” from one end of the town to the other. As a small town, Hawkesbury is not dirty, dusty and possessing of the “big city vibe” that one can attribute to East End Montreal.

I'm sorry but the white trash capital of Canada cannot be Hawkesbury; the title already is held by St. Catharines, Ontario...also known as Goon Town. —Preceding unsigned comment added by

hawksburry is hand down! the most depressing, dirty and saddest town in north america. the population is a ratio of 5% common folk and 95% bums, junkies and fucking losers! i would pay to see it burn down, the whole comunity is a waste of oxygen. sincerly a prescott-russell resident. 209.29.82.104 (talk) 14:29, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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