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..

*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.. ✅🙂*

Love watching these 70s documentaries, and that music near the end @25.00 fantastically 70s ❤

Some of the music in this video sounds so much like something boards of canada would make.

Someone needs to interview these men. Great video

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.

Awesome. Emblematic of the Canada i went to school learning to be proud of. And then...

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.

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.

To this day..........that is one BAD ASS HELICOPTER!!

My signature is on the top antenna section.I watched the entire construction from beginning to end from Center Island

I remember Olga flying the top piece!!!😎👍

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

I was 11 when I went down to Toronto to watch this moment it was a big deal and I mean BIG!

I remember there being a two year waiting list to eat in the revolving restaurant when it first opened

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 .

Man this narrator voice I have heard it everywhere

My Dad (and a few others) stood and took a piss off the very top of that place when it was completed!!

I was working at the Printing House on Adelaide and Bay St. and watched the entire building of the tower!

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.

Great videos, i love the CN Tower

Canada has passed it's prime. Before you judge me, just know: I was born in downtown Toronto in the 80's.

This was fantastic, thank you. Lovely to see Canada, even if just one more time, as it was and should be

Incredible Marvel of Canadian engineering. Cheers to those who built it

Kept the title of tallest free-standing structure till 2007.

this entire video is an OHSA NIGHTMARE!!!

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.

Incredible engineering. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing. - Ironworkers Local 721, TORONTO

Proud to be Canadian.

This film must be fully restored and digitally mastered and enhanced not only for DVD, but also for Blu-Ray.

Wow, even back then, Toronto still had a lot of high-rise condos and skyscrapers.:-)

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.

Thanks for sharing

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. ✌

merçi beaucoup pour ce video

just beautiful

video meraviglioso,la cn tower è una struttura bellissima. il roger centre quando è stato costruito...saluti dall'italia..

Beautiful👍👍👍👍👍

This was back when traffic wasn't a burden.

manliest job in the world

The connecting crew AKA they're all nuts.

Music reminds me the good ol'days of the '70 porn industry... with John Holmes ! :-)

1st choice background music

I love the (invisible) safety harnesses and personal protective equipment they used back then, when men were MEN.

It was a great moment not only for Toronto the once good 1:42

It’s unfortunate that other buildings in downtown Toronto are catching up to the cn tower’s height

Leafs last Cup in 1967, 9 years before CN Tower was finished in 1967.

my ironworker trade school teacher connected on this job.

That was a 100% percent mindblowing engineering feat... So many people coming together to create a proud Canadian symbol....

The guys up top with no harnesses 😳 they were real men

11:46 There's a lot of missing nuts and bolts.

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.

There's one thing you don't see anymore. GO train single deck cars. They phased out around 1989.

the tallest building in CANADA!

ed you got your remark backwards, ironworkers make very good money, alot more that people who sit behind a desk??

Whats that song in the credit scene at the end?

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.

Right before the film/credits ends, the microphone picks up some dude's voice.

Canron company still exists?

Skylift helicopter! 👍

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.

Were any of these guys actually tethered??

Then Olga headed west to fight forest fires in BC

Just like the world trade centre the steel mostly came from Hamilton. 3:38

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Is canron still around?

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.

Super Dave Osborne disliked this video.

It's a shame Toronto's biggest blunder is right next to it

Toronto 1988

No harness

The Russians were pissed off that it eclipsed their Ostenkino tower at 1805 feet

Rip canada

Very old!

Canada used to be a proper country.

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...

Niagara falls cn tower

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!

Where the hell was this print stored? In an unsealed cardboard box in a leaky outdoor shed for forty years?

Did the edgewalk on this thing.......... more powre to those that built it......

This was a pretty good accomplishment. Nothing compared to what feminism has done in the decades since but pretty good work for men.

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.

Dubai beat Toronto.

Cant believe it's been 8 years already.

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