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Is Oakville a town or city?Pro City

I believe Oakville should be called acity.

Oakville has the following to be des-ignated a city: population size; peoplewith a diversity of national origins;industries and businesses; cultural andeducational organizations and institu-tions; tourism areas; shopping areas;post-secondary institutions; librarysystem; choices of kinds of housing; agreat hospital and other medical facili-ties; (and a shortage of doctors, surely a“city” concern).

There may also be financial incen-tives, which would benefit the people ofOakville by calling Oakville a city.

Let’s bring Oakville and its munic-ipal designation into the 21st century,and call Oakville a city at last. What agood reason for a municipal celebra-tion this year!

MARGARET PERSCHY

Pro TownNo matter what the

rules say I will alwayscall Oakville a town,even though it may be abig one.

PETER MCCONNELL

A 34 YEARS PROUD

'TOWNIE'

Editor’s note: In The OakvilleBeaver, March 12 edition, we rana letter from Steve Edgar sug-gesting it was time the Town ofOakville became the City ofOakville. We asked for yourthoughts on this subject and youresponded. If you still want tocomment, send your opinion toeditor@oakvillebeaver.com

Pro TownOakville may well be a city, but we

prefer the Town of Oakville.As far as I’m concerned, town

sounds more intimate, smaller, as ina place where you still know eachother (though we may not actually).

City sounds more like a big placewhere you can get lost and no onemight care. So it might all have to dowith emotions.

Do we need to boast about being acity as a status symbol?

Let’s keep it a town.A. JOHANSEN

Pro TownIt becomes a matter of semantics and unless there are

real benefits from becoming a city, let’s leave it as theTown of Oakville.

Living here reflects a lifestyle choice because Oakvillehas an ambiance, charm and sense of community that aremore in line with that of a town versus the indifference ofa city.

Before we moved to Ontario, we lived in the hamlet ofSherwood Park, Alberta, which offered a tremendous qual-ity of life and possessed a strong community pride.

According to Wikipedia, “a hamlet (Germanic for anenclosed piece of land or pasture) is usually a rural com-munity, that is a small settlement, it is too small to beconsidered a village. There are some exceptions, such asSherwood Park, Alberta, which has a population of morethan 50,000 — well above that needed for city status—butwhich has retained hamlet status.”

Oakville has that strong sense of community so if thedesignation “town” suits us, then we should retain it.

E. BOUNDS

Pro CityAfter reading the pros and cons of

town or city, it seems as if the residentswho have been here for many yearsprefer to keep it as a town. The newerresidents would rather call it a city.

We’ve been here since 1999. Beforewe moved here, we did much researchabout the place and it seemed like itwould be this quaint little place.

When we arrived here, we drovearound the older parts and indeedfound it a different old English town, asmy husband is British, he loved theatmosphere.

However, we couldn’t find a housein that area and went into Glen Abbey,where we now live.

With all the new development,which has occurred in just the past fewyears, and with a major highway likethe QEW running right through themiddle of Oakville, it hardly feels like atown any longer.

I say, it should now be a city, as ithas grown up, has the population andsounds more sophisticated.

For me, it does not have a town feel-ing to it.

Burlington is a city, and so isOakville. It is all part of the GTA andthe dynamics have changed entirely.

ROSEMARIE GREEN

Pro TownLet’s remain known as the Town of

Oakville and be proud it is home.GWEN & ARDEN MYERS