Toronto's CN Tower completed by The Foundation Company of Canada
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- In 1974, The Foundation Company of Canada completed Toronto's CN Tower. At 553.33metres (1,815.4 feet) it is one of the tallest free standing structures in the world.
The Foundation Company of Canada was a predecessor company to Aecon Group Inc.
The video was produced by Chris Slagter, C.S.C. of Aries Productions, Toronto for Canron Limited during 1974 and 1975. Canron Limited completed the steel work on the CN Tower.
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You have to admire the skill and bravery required to build an amazing structure 👏👏👏
Thank you all the men and women that built the CN Tower ❤️🇨🇦🌎 I was in grade 7 when it was built, every Sunday our parents would drive by to see the progress going to Chinatown..
I absolutely love these old school documentaries on the building of these projects, these guys had balls to do what they did then and today up so high.
Today , some are still high. As a kite way though 😂
*There's something about this old type of footage that makes it nostalgic and memorable. I never got to experience the 70's or the 80's to see what it was like.. ✅🙂*
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Someone needs to interview these men. Great video
Most of those men are in their 80s
@@Mrdanks416 It's hard to get too close to them on account of their big brass balls that they have between their legs
@@Mrdanks416I'm sure men in there 80s can still talk.
@@toddhunter3137 if they’re still alive
I was there twice in 2018. I am terrified of heights but I went up to the skypod and I can state without doubt those guys who constructed this have my complete and undying gratitude. As a Canadian I am proud of The Lady of the Lake and admire the work it took to make her the beauty she is. You who built this wonder, you have my respect.
I remember it was finished shortly after I had moved up to the area in 1974. It was finished in 1975. I loved going up to the top & also enjoyed the restaurant/bar. Beautiful structure. Always loved how it made such a beautiful skyline, when driving back into Toronto.
Built without computers how different the city look back then the Waterfront there's no condos there I really love the video I grew up in the 70s as a teenager then it was a great time
Awesome. Emblematic of the Canada i went to school learning to be proud of. And then...
I visited the CN Tower in 1986 when I was in Toronto for a convention. To say I was impressed would be a massive understatement, it was absolutely incredible. . I knew it was BIG, but I was taken aback by it's massive size. The trip to the top was beyond amazing, as was the view from the observation deck. An unforgettable experience.
i was 10 years old with my parents watching the sikorsky putting up the final pieces of the antenna . i have all the pictures my mom took of different stages of the construction . it was such an amazing engineering accomplishment. those iron workers and construction guys had balls of steel working at those heights with no fear in freezing temps, high winds , rain and blazing heat .
Can you upload these pictures to flickr etc.?
To this day..........that is one BAD ASS HELICOPTER!!
The CN tower is my favorite because I live 1 hour away from Toronto and I go and visit the tower every year on my birthday and my grandfather even helped build the tower damn this video brings back memories
My signature is on the top antenna section.I watched the entire construction from beginning to end from Center Island
SuperMrmotorhead bet it was enjoyable
Wow!
I still get "yea right" when i tell how my cousin and i went down to the holding yard to sign our signature's on the mast
Im sure ur signature is on it
nigel mahabir It is, why don’t you climb up there and look?
Love watching these 70s documentaries, and that music near the end @25.00 fantastically 70s ❤
Totally!! Back when everything was still so raw
Incredible Marvel of Canadian engineering. Cheers to those who built it
This was fantastic, thank you.
Lovely to see Canada, even if just one more time, as it was and should be
I saw this when I was in grade 3
I was 11 when I went down to Toronto to watch this moment it was a big deal and I mean BIG!
I was working at the Printing House on Adelaide and Bay St. and watched the entire building of the tower!
Lucky
That was a long work day then
Hopefully they paid overtime.
Some of the music in this video sounds so much like something boards of canada would make.
Excellent footage, hadn't seen some of this before.
Been decades since I've been up top. Spent many a weekend as a kid and teenager there, riding to the top or at the awesome video arcade on the ground floor.
Canada has passed it's prime. Before you judge me, just know: I was born in downtown Toronto in the 80's.
Only because it was handed over to the third......
@@ZeroMass Homie... Why was I lied too? I built 7 towers because I was told good things... I haven't got nothing in my name...
2:55 the office building here…same construction as WTC 1 and 2…inner core wide open floor area and structural steel exterior walls. Very cool.
I am born on November 1, 1973. I did not know the CN Tower construction started on February 1973. Hope that film along with the other CN Tower film comes to DVD and Blu-Ray.
I remember there being a two year waiting list to eat in the revolving restaurant when it first opened
Great videos, i love the CN Tower
Kept the title of tallest free-standing structure till 2007.
My Dad (and a few others) stood and took a piss off the very top of that place when it was completed!!
I had to go wipe my ass after watching these Iron Workers build this thing. Lol no damn way I could do that job, whatever Iron Workers are payed an hour it’s not enough. My hat is off to those men & women.
Sure...
Charming, you must be very proud.
I remember Olga flying the top piece!!!😎👍
Incredible engineering. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, even back then, Toronto still had a lot of high-rise condos and skyscrapers.:-)
this entire video is an OHSA NIGHTMARE!!!
Thats nothing compared to the gross incompetence in Winnipeg. The clowns here are ultra dangerous and illiterate.
iamsix__ why we could never be world number 1 again
Rusty Stove I mean, it’s Winnipeg
Proud to be Canadian.
me too DUDE!!! CANADA IS THE BEST, CN Tower too!
Tim|Ker Tallest in the Western hemisphere, tallest in the world until 2007
in the uk we built stuff like this 500 years earlier no cranes
Back when Canada, was Canada!
Man this narrator voice I have heard it everywhere
This film must be fully restored and digitally mastered and enhanced not only for DVD, but also for Blu-Ray.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.
- Ironworkers Local 721, TORONTO
I wonder how many were from the Maritimes?
Awesome video
I'm so glad they finally put lights that change colours to make it look even more interesting. I've been saying it since the eighties that is what they should do to it. Finally they came to their senses and did it. Looks amazing now. ✌
Plus a nice view of the old train yards there ❤
Just like the world trade centre the steel mostly came from Hamilton. 3:38
That was a 100% percent mindblowing engineering feat...
So many people coming together to create a proud Canadian symbol....
You said percent twice
If there was another CN Tower documentary film To the Top, hopefully that other CN Tower film documentary comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray.
This was back when traffic wasn't a burden.
just beautiful
video meraviglioso,la cn tower è una struttura bellissima. il roger centre quando è stato costruito...saluti dall'italia..
Thanks for sharing
merçi beaucoup pour ce video
I love the (invisible) safety harnesses and personal protective equipment they used back then, when men were MEN.
How did they not fall
they were also a lot deader men. They just did it different, doesnt mean having a harness makes you less of a man.... falling to your death would make you less of a man lol
@@jgchalmers There are worse things than dying... like being trapped in a dying world. There's only one way out.
2019 I was there with my son because the love of history am here now I don’t think me doing construction now I could’ve never be so high up a house Is highest roof I’ll be on 🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 23:33
Leafs last Cup in 1967, 9 years before CN Tower was finished in 1967.
1976 I meant
It was a great moment not only for Toronto the once good 1:42
Beautiful👍👍👍👍👍
The guys up top with no harnesses 😳 they were real men
Yup went in drink and high also
Imagine having to walk up 1000 feet or more of stairs to get to work everyday, those guys must have had legs like tree trunks.
It’s unfortunate that other buildings in downtown Toronto are catching up to the cn tower’s height
No they're not.
The connecting crew AKA they're all nuts.
Newfoundlanders?
Wasn't this film made by Westminster Films on Gerrard Street in Toronto? I worked there as a grad student-in 1976 at Westminster under Don Haldane and Lee Gordon and recall seeing the rough footage still in the film trim bins etc. Westminster did corporate industrial films for Ont. Hydro, CN etc. The cone going on the peak of the tower was some of the camera footage I remember seeing.
Michael, is there a way to contact you via private message?
You can text me at 613-340-8406 or email at MichaelSherrer@aol.com. Mention CN Tower in the subject.
Music reminds me the good ol'days of the '70 porn industry... with John Holmes ! :-)
manliest job in the world
There's one thing you don't see anymore. GO train single deck cars. They phased out around 1989.
+Jason Finn I think some of the former GO Transit Hawker Siddeley coaches got moved to provide comuter rail service in the Montreal area. Montreal also acquired some of the former GO Transit Electro Motive Division locomotives after the newer mp40ph locomotives were acquired.
Were any of these guys actually tethered??
Real men don't use safeties and go in drunk
ed you got your remark backwards, ironworkers make very good money, alot more that people who sit behind a desk??
the tallest building in CANADA!
Tallest 'freestanding' building.,
@StainlessSteelegames 0717 Tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere.
16:07 Quietly taking shape in the background down on King St. is First Canadian Place. Here it looks quite unassuming even though nearing its topping-out, and the following year it will take its place as the eighth-tallest building on earth and the tallest outside New York and Chicago.
Merely 72 stories, but with a floor pitch of more than 13 feet it will measure 952 feet from curb to rooftop. (A tall aerial will mar its appearance.)
It's still Canada's tallest building. But it will become second when The One (Yonge & Bloor) is finished in a year or two, reaching 1,014 feet and ending First Canadian's run after about 47 years. It's shown again at 25:34.
@Ken Lompart No, that was at the TD Bank Tower at the TD Centre, where I worked some years later. How to end a party in one second flat.
This comment didn’t age well. The One. 😂
@@JoelWright-e7m Yep. Still three or four hundred feet to go. I don't see how it's laughable, though. I guess all your own billion-dollar construction projects go off without a hitch?
@@dixonpinfold2582 the project is years behind schedule and has been scaled back twice, effectively making your claims unquestionably wrong. I was laughing at your hubris Mr trump. Lmfao!!
@@JoelWright-e7m Why t h are you calling me "Mr. trump"? r u hi?
Edit: Never mind. It doesn't matter what the cause for such behaviour is.
my ironworker trade school teacher connected on this job.
1st choice background music
I signed my name on the top of the tower when it was on the ground right before it went up. I'm like is this ink waterproof? Don't know if it was on the time capsule buried in the CN Tower or what.
What year was that? Is there a time capsule?
The Russians were pissed off that it eclipsed their Ostenkino tower at 1805 feet
Canron company still exists?
This is a very well done, but horribly depressing video...
Great music, great narrating, great times... Great times cuz wasn't no flashy safety men up these workers' asses enforcing ludicrous rules and ridiculous regulations... Men were able to be men and complete their tasks without having to deal with the chickenshit safety baloney that workers today must endure... When I started into construction in the mid 80's things weren't nearly as anal as they are today... I used to love coonin' steel without fear of being chastised for it.. The first few years I was in, we were able to free climb and otherwise walk the Iron to get where we needed to be in order to do what needed to be done and rarely being forced to don the extra burden of a safety belt.. The cumbersome body harness and double lanyard weren't even a thing back then. Back then each man was responsible for his own safety. If i felt a certain task was too dangerous I wouldn't do it or would utilize a safety belt and some rope before doing it... Nowadays, tasks take way longer because of all the red tape a crew must go through- sometimes just to accomplish one small quick thing....
I am not dissing the use of a safety harness, sure, there are times I feel more comfortable and secure using fall protection; I am just noting that much of my work can be successfully accomplished like you see here, by simple means of egress and without the need to go through the process of continually attaching attachment systems whatever they may be...
Construction work is inherently dangerous but blame it on the lawyers for creating the sue happy world we live in today... Without the extensive litigation brought about by (in many cases) one's own carelessness, things would probably not be as rigid as they now are... I mean c'mon..... Now the norm is to force workers to wear bright shiny vests on the jobsite along with more and more ridiculous policies being instituted in the name of "safety".... In my time, I've seen so many of these college educated safety -men- persons who haven't a clue..... And it keeps on getting worse and worse; like with the advent of the "glove rule"... just like with the nonsensical 6' tie off rule, many jobsites now require heavy gloves to be worn by all trades 100% of time- ummmm really? Are we that stupid? Like I cant decide for myself when I should and shouldn't be wearing gloves??? Well that "rule" was certainly concocted by someone who has never worked a day of manual labor in their life and has no clue whatsoever.... So really, what's next? a bubblesuit? 100% forced respirator usage? ughhhh.....
I'm so friggin glad that Im almost out of it now after 35+ years of mostly working "unsafe" whenever I can get away with it and even bailing on some jobs because of the extreme amount of safety overkill nonsense of some companies... At least the young kids of today don't know anything different so probably no big deal to them to be nannied... And it's only gonna get more stringent as time goes on and these bird brain bureaucrats have more time to think up more rules to make a tough job harder.
Yea i'm grumpy alright..... Even the music of 2020 sucks.... Take me back to a time of Rock, Disco, and REAL Country music; afros and sideburns and bell bottoms.. back when TVs were heavy and you didn't need a remote control to operate them... Take me back to a time when products weren't made as cheaply as humanly possible (Yea, to a time when cars and toys were made of REAL steel- and came without computers)... and of course, take me to a time before OSHA/OH&S turned aggressive...
ok safety nazis, I'm ready for it heheheh!
L😊
Canada used to be a proper country.
3:09 The boards of Canada 😁
As an American who has been to Toronto that CN tower is AWESOME! It also makes me sad, remember when our two countries built awesome shit like this? We built the shuttle and you Canadians put an arm in it. Now.....? I worked in Silicon Valley at companies like IBM, Intel and eventually Apple, if I knew the internet would kill the drive our countries had I would have fire bombed the servers that housed the internet. Such a damn shame...
Right before the film/credits ends, the microphone picks up some dude's voice.
Whats that song in the credit scene at the end?
Then Olga headed west to fight forest fires in BC
It's a shame Toronto's biggest blunder is right next to it
Skylift helicopter! 👍
16:42 14:44
Safety. lol. Walking around on those beams without any safety harness. Balls of steal.
Super Dave Osborne disliked this video.
Is canron still around?
I believe it's gone (about 15 years ago?)
They shutdown around 2004-2005 I think
This is the second-best video on the CN Tower's construction. However, if you'd like to learn of a subset of the people who designed and built the tower, and more visuals of its construction, then please take an hour and visit my CN Tower Historical Project at www.pastandfuturehistory.com.
No harness
14:43 16:38 16:42
This was a pretty good accomplishment. Nothing compared to what feminism has done in the decades since but pretty good work for men.
Rip canada
Where the hell was this print stored? In an unsealed cardboard box in a leaky outdoor shed for forty years?
Release print with emulsion scratches.
@@arricammarques1955 That's not what I said? ;)
Toronto 1988
75 76?.....
+Johnathan Cruickshank I think 1976 is right. I was there that year and have a photo of the tower before completion.
Let's build a very stupid unusual structure. And use it basically as just one big antenna and call it the tallest building.
Very old!
😮🎉😊😅
Niagara falls cn tower
its in toronto not niagara falls dipshit.
Its toronto
@ skynylarry bloody hell why do you have to be so rude about it!
Did the edgewalk on this thing.......... more powre to those that built it......
Canada peaked in the 70's and 80's on the world stage. Since then it's been a steadily decline of relevance and capability in virtually every aspect of the country. Today, it's one of the worst countries for extreme governmental control and it's so sad to see how little respect Canada garners worldwide now. We need to get our strength back and rid ourselves of this destructive liberal mentality that's infected the children of the post war generations.
Lego, big deal. babble on
Dubai beat Toronto.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You would haveo be ignorant to say that because you know nothing about the Baj Kalifa tower in Dubai that beat the height of the CN tower.
And your brain is made of rocks.
+Somaz not really because the tallest tower is still in the Arab Nation.
+Mohammad Elzien why would i be jealous of the middle east lmao
11:46 There's a lot of missing nuts and bolts.