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More steel going up, Structural steel work has started rising above ground at the Commercial Union Tower, the third high-rise building in the Toronto-(...)
More steel going up, Structural steel work has started rising above ground at the Commercial Union Tower, the third high-rise building in the Toronto-(...)

More steel going up, Structural steel work has started rising above ground at the Commercial Union Tower, the third high-rise building in the Toronto-(...)

Date1/3/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: More steel going up; Structural steel work has started rising above ground at the Commercial Union Tower; the third high-rise building in the Toronto-Dominion Centre; as shown above; from York and Wellington Sts.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0110734F
Below, looking up, Metro dignitaries watch as teh final piece of structural steel is raised to the roof of the 784-foot-high tower of Commerce Court y(...)
Below, looking up, Metro dignitaries watch as teh final piece of structural steel is raised to the roof of the 784-foot-high tower of Commerce Court y(...)
4/16/1971
STEEL REINFORCING BARS and steel pipe-the backbone and arteries--jut up from the rising CN Tower on the Metro waterfront. Demand for steel is booming at a rate not seen since World War II. Canadian mills are straining at top capacity. One Bay St. analyst says there is no catching up for three years.
STEEL REINFORCING BARS and steel pipe-the backbone and arteries--jut up from the rising CN Tower on the Metro waterfront. Demand for steel is booming at a rate not seen since World War II. Canadian mills are straining at top capacity. One Bay St. analyst says there is no catching up for three years.
1/2/1974
Keeping it simple: Among the more famous works by architect Mies van der Rohe, far left, are the Toronto-Dominion Centre, top, and his stainless steel and leather Barcelona chair
Keeping it simple: Among the more famous works by architect Mies van der Rohe, far left, are the Toronto-Dominion Centre, top, and his stainless steel and leather Barcelona chair
4/24/1973
Man, there's a long way to go. A steel rigger pauses to wipe his brow on the big Commerce Court project, now seven storeys above street with 50 more t(...)
Man, there's a long way to go. A steel rigger pauses to wipe his brow on the big Commerce Court project, now seven storeys above street with 50 more t(...)
6/11/1970
Richard Haney thinks city shold ban labelling of high-rise commercial buildings
Richard Haney thinks city shold ban labelling of high-rise commercial buildings
9/14/1970
Ash-blonde Julia Steel, shares an apartment with her mother, singer Ivy Steel, but she's going to Paris in June to work for a model agency
Ash-blonde Julia Steel, shares an apartment with her mother, singer Ivy Steel, but she's going to Paris in June to work for a model agency
3/12/1980
Going up, Gradually rising above street level, construction of the New Massey Hall is progressing at King and Simcoe Sts. in downtown Toronto. The $34(...)
Going up, Gradually rising above street level, construction of the New Massey Hall is progressing at King and Simcoe Sts. in downtown Toronto. The $34(...)
9/24/1979
Tumbling down the tower. Stuntman Roger Brown, padded everywhere except on his head, rolls down the CN Tower's 1,760 steels steps today to try to rais(...)
Tumbling down the tower. Stuntman Roger Brown, padded everywhere except on his head, rolls down the CN Tower's 1,760 steels steps today to try to rais(...)
9/9/1981
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
Workman erects steel framework for CN Tower restaurant
Workman erects steel framework for CN Tower restaurant
11/25/1974
Train sheds at old Union St. Wrecking outfits armed with high-pressure steel girders, made a new record in wrecking the Union Station to make way for (...)
Train sheds at old Union St. Wrecking outfits armed with high-pressure steel girders, made a new record in wrecking the Union Station to make way for (...)
6/28/1927
On a clear day Harold Melvin Griffith, president of Steel Company of Canada, can sit in his office on the 38th floor of the Royal Trust Tower and watch smoke drift from Stelco's main works in Hamilton
On a clear day Harold Melvin Griffith, president of Steel Company of Canada, can sit in his office on the 38th floor of the Royal Trust Tower and watch smoke drift from Stelco's main works in Hamilton
4/8/1970