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53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)
53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)

53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)

Date10/21/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: 53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already sheathed in brown marble. The photo was taken from the Commerce Court.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0109394F
Heading for new heights, construction worker Ab Ivany, now working on new Commerce Court tower that will rise 57 storeys, recalls that 41 years ago, i(...)
Heading for new heights, construction worker Ab Ivany, now working on new Commerce Court tower that will rise 57 storeys, recalls that 41 years ago, i(...)
11/24/1970
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
7/15/1970
Falls five storeys to death. Morris Powlatsky, aged 53, of Winnipeg, a guest at the Walker House, fell from the fire escape on the fifth floor of the (...)
Falls five storeys to death. Morris Powlatsky, aged 53, of Winnipeg, a guest at the Walker House, fell from the fire escape on the fifth floor of the (...)
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A bank tower in the making, The wreckage in the foreground is the very first stage in clearing away room to sink the foundation for the 68-storey Scot(...)
A bank tower in the making, The wreckage in the foreground is the very first stage in clearing away room to sink the foundation for the 68-storey Scot(...)
8/6/1985
Tower Topping, A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce b(...)
Tower Topping, A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce b(...)
3/20/1989
Monkey fell 11 storeys, Betty, a 4-year-old spider monkey from Africa who tumbled from an 11th-floor balcony Wednesday, frolics with Dr. Graham MacLeo(...)
Monkey fell 11 storeys, Betty, a 4-year-old spider monkey from Africa who tumbled from an 11th-floor balcony Wednesday, frolics with Dr. Graham MacLeo(...)
6/15/1972
Man falls at Eaton Centre. Vincent Gray, 23, is carried away on a stretcher after falling three storeys in the mall of the Eaton Centre yesterday. He (...)
Man falls at Eaton Centre. Vincent Gray, 23, is carried away on a stretcher after falling three storeys in the mall of the Eaton Centre yesterday. He (...)
4/13/1989
Fell four storeys, Al Davidson, 19, fell from a fourth-floor window of the Tip Top Tailor plant (above) and is believed to have suffered a broken back(...)
Fell four storeys, Al Davidson, 19, fell from a fourth-floor window of the Tip Top Tailor plant (above) and is believed to have suffered a broken back(...)
11/12/1938
12-storey plunge kills worker. Carlos Teles, 33, of Brunswick Ave., fell 12 storeys to death when side of scaffolding gave way, and safety rope was sh(...)
12-storey plunge kills worker. Carlos Teles, 33, of Brunswick Ave., fell 12 storeys to death when side of scaffolding gave way, and safety rope was sh(...)
5/13/1964
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
11/8/1983
25 King St. W.-the bank's graceful 43-year-old, 34-storey Indiania Limestone and Ontario granite tiered office tower, at 476 feet the tallest building in the Commonwealth for more than three decades
25 King St. W.-the bank's graceful 43-year-old, 34-storey Indiania Limestone and Ontario granite tiered office tower, at 476 feet the tallest building in the Commonwealth for more than three decades
10/28/1974
Fast start: The second 23-storey tower at Skygarden has already started rising
Fast start: The second 23-storey tower at Skygarden has already started rising
10/21/1980