I guess I was in a pissy mood. There are, of course, very fine examples of early 20th Century architecture in Ontario and Toronto has a few such gems. Still, I think that the Prairie cities were a little more ambitious than Toronto or Ottawa were at the time, especially given their relative size. Winnipeg is somewhat deserving of the title of "Chicago of the North" and, yet, most of the Beaux Arts beauties that grace Main and Portage or the nearby Exchange district were built when the city still had about 1/3 the population of Toronto. I do think that that apartment block in Regina has more oomph than any pre-war apartment complex of the same size in Toronto and, yet, Regina was a small little prairie town back then.