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[panamaniac]

It's easy to the "east" and the "south", because the expressway.  To the "north" and "west" it's arguably trickier, although Westmount and University offer simplicity of definition.  To me "urban" looks a lot like K-W circa pre-1970s, while "suburban" is K-W post-1970s, roughly speaking.

1950 

But I’m much older than my birth certificate would suggest 

In 1950 the corner of Ottawa and Mill St was out on the edge of town, with apple orchards on the city side.  There was some development out along old King St and Weber St, but Rockway Gardens would have been pretty much the end of town.  The Greenbrook pumping station and Lakeside Pond would have been the edge of town over on the (now) Forest Hill side.  In Waterloo, except perhaps for King St, pretty much everything north of University would still have been farmland.  There would have been little or no development on the far side of Westmount (or its predecessor streets), except for the golf course. Over on the other side of town, there would not have been much beyond the Aud, apart from along Victoria St.