Do any of you do this?

[Sprailenes 47]

I go to this website: http://www.barrie.ca/Content2.cfm?C=4150&a...1226&L1M=38

City/Town Cams!

Just to see the live action as it happens in my old town. I go there every day just to see what the weather is like, and if anything is different.

Anyone else do this? And if so please share your city camera site with us.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

When I first moved here, there was a video cam set up outside the Capitol Theatre restoration project on the main street of Chatham, Ontario. I used to click on the cam and just watch the traffic go by. They have since removed the cam and I haven't succeeded in finding another live view camera set up anywhere, but I go and read the newspapers regularly (a daily, a weekly and an online weekly) as well as check out the radio station and upcoming events through the official website: http://www.chatham-kent.ca/default.htm#

I do, however, still check the Kingston webcam - that is where I grew up and I still consider home. http://www.kingstonkiosk.com/directory.php...;categoryId=225 If you look at the far right hand edge of the far right corner of the cupola on City Hall you will see an older building front - I used to live in that complex - my actual apartment is hidden behind the cupola but the view from my living room windows was of City Hall and some of the farmer's market behind, and the view from the bedroom window (overlooking a few buildings) was of the Kingston waterfront and Lake Ontario. My apartment was originally built as the Bank of Upper Canada in 1828 - it had 6 ft thick limestone walls and I loved it! It has a long time since been converted to a restaurant and bakery - what was my apartment is now the pastry kitchen for the restaurant. Still, I love to look at the webcam.

I still read all of the local newspapers as well:-).

Edited July 6, 2008 by Kathryn41

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Aww thanks sweetie!!

I'll be checking that out for sure!!!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

hehehehe - of other note - I am fascinated by volcanoes, and I regularly check the volcano cam for Mount St Helens http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ as well as the various seismographs around the world - here is one of the most basic ones http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

(Didn't mean to hi-jack the thread - just that your post about checking cams on a regular basis also reminded me of these).

[Sprailenes 47]

Ahh other cams I do check out is: http://www.libraryghost.com/

I have yet to see anything but I still like to check it out.

[Reneehao 0]

I miss Windsor Ontario, but I can not go back now even it is just one hour drive from my home to Windsor.

Once I get AP, the first thing that I would like to do is go back Windsor!

[Sprailenes 47]

I miss Windsor Ontario, but I can not go back now even it is just one hour drive from my home to Windsor.

Once I get AP, the first thing that I would like to do is go back Windsor!

They don't have a windsor cam? I looked online and couldn't find one.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Here is the Windsor cam:

http://www.windsorkiosk.com/directory.php?...;categoryId=225

hmm- it may not work . .

Edited July 6, 2008 by Kathryn41

[thetreble 19]

I always watch the Parliament Hill cam because I used to live on the street that ended with the Parliament buildings at the end.

[Sprailenes 47]

When I was in College, the barrie cam used to be live and I used to tell my fiance (who was just a friend then) to watch the one by the library (because I lived right by it) and I'd walk down and do a cart wheel so he'd know it was me.

Yea I know its pretty sad but thats what I used to do. lol.

Edited July 6, 2008 by Sprailenes

[thetreble 19]

Actually thats a really cute idea. I never would have thought of that.

[Marilyn. 340]

this is all I have found so far from my town, Chilliwack, BC..

http://www.gov.chilliwack.bc.ca/main/page.cfm?id=1528

[Marilyn. 340]

i did just find a cam for the town I was born in .. Steinbach, Manitoba...

http://www.mysteinbach.ca/features/webcam.html

[Krikit 1,165]

I would always use Cams Across Ontario but they no longer have the Oakville and Burlington waterfront cams on there. I was able to find the Burlington Waterfront Webcam on another site, so sometimes when I'm homesick I will take a look and see if I can see anybody I know. The Burlington waterfront was just down the street from my house, so I would always walk there. They had some awesome festivals too. I have big regrets about selling my house. Looks like a nice sunny day in Ontario today!

[Reba 2]

apparently there are no web-cams anywhere near where I grew up in Stouffville, though they of course have links to all the GTA MTO traffic cams.

I rarely read the Stouffville news, unless a friend who still lives there sends me something. I usually just read The Star. And I have not ever checked any of the TO web cams, unless someone here has posted something.