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'.
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 The downtown area consists of one main street and the store front are gawdy and outdated.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 architechture.
