"Silicon Valley venture firms are hustling to Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver to invest in Canadian startups."<p>What is the Montreal tech scene like for an Anglophone?
I'd really like to see some comparative historical coverage of the development (and fall) of US technology hubs. There's been some recent discussion, but I can think of a few:<p>* New England, 19th century. Early manufacturing and milltown works, first water-powered, later steam.<p>* Late 19th century industrialisation. Edison (New Jersey), Bethlehem and U.S. Steel (Bethlehem and Pittsburgh, PA)<p>* Early 20th century: Detroit<p>* Mid-20th century: Rochester & Buffalo, NY, Boston / Route 128, Research Triangle Park / NC, Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Santa Monica (RAND).<p>* Late 20th / early 21st: Seattle, Boulder, CO, Austin, TX, and of course, Silicon Valley / SF-SJ corridor.<p>If anyone has some solid recommended reading, I'm all ears. Or eyes.
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What is the tech scene at Halifax, Nova Scotia? I am landing there in a few weeks and have been researching about it for a while. I could not get much through the Ask HN[0] post I submitted a while ago.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428966" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428966</a>
I'm always weary of "having a moment" stories. It often means the author is going to try to string together unrelated events into a narrative.