{"id":5702,"date":"2016-05-09T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2016-06-16T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T05:02:10","slug":"the-toronto-cn-tower-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-toronto-cn-tower-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toronto CN Tower turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CN Tower Canron Workers – Click to see all men<\/p><\/div>\n

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, June\u00a015, 2016
\n<\/strong>Robert C. Lansdale: Visual History of the CN Tower Construction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CN Tower is one of our\u00a0proudest landmarks but Canadians treat it with little fanfare. Other countries are quick to boast about their special sites – the Eiffel Tower in France, the Pyramids in Egypt, London Bridge in England,the Twin Towers in New York.<\/p>\n

Want to know more about Toronto\u2019s CN Tower? Attend the photo lecture\u00a0 presented by Robert C. Lansdale, Robert has spent a decade tracking down the workers who undertook to construct this architectural wonder.<\/p>\n

The full title of his talk at our June meeting is: Visual History\u00a0of the CN Tower Construction \u2013 A Visual Tour of its Construction & its Builders.\u00a0<\/em> As the “seventh\u00a0Engineering Wonder of the World”, the contribution of the CN Tower\u2019s 1,537 workers, who toiled for 5 years, has been completely ignored, forgotten and swept under the carpet.<\/p>\n

Starting in the 1960s, Robert accompanied his PHSC photographer-father to document Toronto\u2019s newest architectural landmark. Now decades later as an engineer and historian himself, Robert has returned in earnest to capture a major-historical record of the CN Tower and its people.<\/p>\n

This awe-inspiring photo lecture will be first presented in\u00a0public at our Toronto meeting this coming June.\u00a0Go to our\u00a0Programs<\/a>\u00a0page for times and directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, June\u00a015, 2016 Robert C. Lansdale: Visual History of the CN Tower Construction. The CN Tower is one of our\u00a0proudest landmarks but Canadians treat it with little fanfare. Other countries are quick to boast about their special … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,362],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program","tag-anniversary","tag-cn-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}