Dan416
Senior Member
Golden Horseshoe is, strictly speaking, Oshawa-Niagara Falls.
What do you dislike about Greater Golden Horseshoe? I think it's a fine name to describe how the region functions; basically a bundle of quickly developing and prosperous city-regions that share a geographic proximity and therefore a certain density of scale. What would you prefer? The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area including Kitchener-Waterloo Separate Satellite City, Barrie Satellite Suburban Area and Surrounding Simcoe Growth Area, Niagara Geographic Proximity region and Peterborough, Brantford, and Northumberland Outlying Urban Areas? If so, I'm sure the GTHAK-WSSCBSSASSGANGPRPBNOUA will catch on very quickly in casual usage.
Toronto might be the centre of the region, but it's not quite the centre like Chicago is the centre of Metro Chicago, or NYC is the Centre of the NYC Metro area. It's more like the San Francisco Bay Area which is given the general name of "Bay Area" much like the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
My problem with "Greater Golden Horseshoe" is that it's basically just combining "Greater Toronto Area" and "Golden Horseshoe" into one, bloated, poorly named mashup. "Greater Golden Horseshoe"? It just sounds awful. I say this because growing up my dad had a poster that was titled "The Golden Horseshoe" and that has a lovely poetic sound to it. "Greater Golden Horseshoe" just stounds hackneyed and political.