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8 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, July 5, 1960 ate PLANNED BANK MONTREAL, TORONTO Craze In Skyscrapers Hits Canadian Cities By ALEXANDER FARRELL |and Vancouver. Canadian Press taff Writer | Montreal has eight reaching 20 nearing complétion, Vancouver Skyscrapers, onte a rarity, dot|storeys or higher, and three has four, but no immediate plans the skylines of Canada's three more are taking shape in an un- for more. onto has seven, with another largest cities -Montreal, Torontoiprecedented building boom. Tor-| A cross-Canada survey by The TALLEST BUILDING IN COMMONWEALTH buildings in the Commonwealth. | The third will be the 34-storey Canadian Industri seLimited House. Most of Montreais skyscrapers are located either in the central on opposite slopes district, where the new ones are going up, or in the financial dis; trict between Place d'Armes Victoria Square, just above the waterfront. TOWERING UNIVERSITY The two exceptions are situated! of Mount "© Royal--the Univresity of Mont- : real, whose 27-storey tower " makes it Canada's only sky- scraper university, and the 24- storey Montreal General Hospi- tal, at 342 feet the tallest hospital in the country. The university tower, on the northern slope, is 270 feet high and houses the main university : library. From its summit, 730 : feet above sea level, one can see BANK OF COMMERCE, TORONTO Canadian Press discloses that|by cohcrete giants. Inside the most other cities have steered historic walls of Quebec the old clear of towering buildings be- Upper Town district, where the cause their populations and econ-|city has its roots, has a height omies are not considered large|limit for buildings of 65 feet. Ot- enough to justify them. tawa has a bylaw imposing a In major Prairie centres there| Maximum height of 100 feet from is the additional factor that|ground to eaves. plenty of land is available for| Along a four-block 3tretch of lateral expansion, Even in fast-| Montreal's Dorchester Boulevard, growing Edmonton, which stilllin the heart of the metropolitan has room to sprawl for miles shopping, theatre and hoetl dis- across the Alberta flatlands,|trict, three commercial towers there is only a faint trend toward|are rising. Being built with pres- really talk buildings. tige as well as profit in mind, all three are scheduled for com- CAPITALS COOL pletion in 1962, Quebec and Ottawa, proud and| Two of them, the 42-storey Ca- sedate provincial and federal | nadian Bank of Commerce build- capitals, do not seem eager to|ing and the 40-storey Place Ville have their appearance changed!Marie, will be by far the tallest| the St. Lawrence River to the south beyond the mountain, and northward for a distance of 30 miles. On or near Dorchester Boule- vard are the Sun Life building, at 26 storeys and 400 feet still Montreal's tallest, and the larg- est office building in the Com- monwaelth; the Hotel Laurentien, 24 storeys, 250 feet;" the new Queen Elizabeth hotel, 21 storeys, 273 feet, and the Bell Telephone company's head office building, 20 storeys, 324 feet. In the financial sector are the ) The latest city to give itse¥f a boost skywards is St. John's, Nfld., where the 12-storey Con- federation Building opened in April to house the provincial leg- islature and all government de- partments. The tallest buildings in the Maritime provinces are hospitals, the 14-storey Victoria General in Halifax and the 12-storey, dome- topped General Hospital at Saint John, N.B. CHATEAU TALLEST Quebec City's loftiest are the 17-storey Chateau Frontenac %and The Bank of Nova Scotia building| lis 26 storeys, 325 feet, and the Royal Bank of Canada building 12} storeys, 250 feet. MOST ARE OLD All except the Bank of Nova otia building, completed in 1950, are at least 30 years old. A 21 - storey Prudential Insurance Company building in the heart of the district is to be completde| this fall. Also close to the centre of the city is the Imperial Life Tower on Victoria Street, 22 storeys and 250 fete. |the Price Brothers building, also 117 storeys. Both built be- | fore the restrictions oi builds lings went into effect there. Ottawa's ban on taller build. ings is again under review, but no early changes are expected. The purpose of the restrictions is to preserve the skyline d by the Parliament Buildings and the Peace Tower. In Western cities, the tallest buildings are in the 10-to--16+ storey 'range, and there seems little prospect of any change in the next few years, Farther north in Toronto the Imperial Oil Building, 20 storeys, reaches 297 feet. It was com- pleted in 1957 and its roof, 800 feet above sea level, is the high- est observation point in the city. Toronto's planned new city hall on downtown Queen Street would have two semi-circular blocks towering 23 and 28 storeys. VANCOUVER CLUSTER Vancouver's skyscrapers are GUELPH, Ont, (CP) -- Being |bitten by mosquitoes is all par also mostly close together in the|of a day's work for researcher main es 5 hog along Bur- |Lawrence Burgess of the Ontario rard and Georgia Streets. {Agricultural College. Two, striking additions to the] Mr. Burgess is participating in coast city's skyline were com-|an international search for a fully pleted in 1957: the British Co-|effective mosquito repellent, And Researcher Makes Study Of Insect Repellents |only were irritating but spread |disease as well. | A major testing centre was |established by the U.S. agricule {ture department at Orlando, Fla. {One of the most successful prod. {ucts was dimethyl . phthalate, which keeps mosquitoes away for {two hours. lumbia Electric building, 21 sto- reys, 285 feet above street level, housing the utility's offices; and the Georgian Towers, a 23-storey, 200-foot apartment hotel. The Hotel Vancouver, com- pleted in 1939, is still the city's highest building at 365 feet, its to keep the mosquitoes breeding] while undergoing research they| However, this chemical can must be fed. So he makes his dissolve plastics and may be muscular forearm. available to/hard on the skin. It can make the blood-eating females. {the eyes smart painfully if it Previous attempts to produce comes in contact with them. an all - effective repellent have| Jn breeding and studying the been foiled by the fact that what special strain of mosquitoes, Mr. Aldred Building, 23-storey, 336-24 storeys including three in a foot centre for insurance and in-|tall, peaked roof, vestment offices on Place] Oldest in the 20-storey class is d'Armes, and the Royal Bank of the Marine Building, finished in Canada head office, 20 storeys,|1930 and housing commercial of- 392 feet. {fices. It reaches 318 feet. BUILDING OVER TRACKS {HIGH LAND COST _ The 1,250,000 square fete of of-| Population and economics ex- fice space in the Sun Life build-|plain skyscrapers because they ing will be surpassed by only enable more people to work and one of the three skyscrapers now carry on more commercial ac- undre construction in the vicinity. | tivity in a costly Fahd area. Place Ville Marie, a 550-foot| Peter Welch of Marwell Con- building being erected ovre the|struction Company, which has tracks between the CNR"s Cen-| built some of Vancouver's tallest tral Station and the Mount Royal| buildings, explains: "If you have tunnel, will have 1,500,000 square to pay $3,000 to $5,000 a front foot feet. Cost of this project, includ-|for your property, you've got to ing a 15-storey adjunet, mall and have a pretty heavy occupancy shopping promneade and con-|to give you the return necessary course, is estimated at $200,000,-|to justify your investment." 000. Another advantage, he says, is Two blocks to the west theithat more light is obtained by Bank of Commerce building will rise to 600 feet at a cost of $45,- 000,000, and a block east the CIL House will reach 430 feet, cost- ing $30,000,000, Five of Toronto's taller build- ings are within a few blocks in the downtown business district. These include the Bank of Com- merce huilding, towering 34 sto- reys and 476 feet above ground, since 1930 the tallest building in the Commonwealth; the Royal York Hotel, 22 storeys and 397 feet, the largest hotel in the Com- monwealth; and the Toronto Daily Star building, 23 storeys, 304 feet, the only skyscraper newspaper building in Canada. taking up lses of the building lot space and extending the building higher. Regulations affecting tall build- ings are much the same in Mont- real, Toronto and Vancouver. There is no absolute height limit, but it must be governed by the will repel one breed of the insect may have little or no effect on another, Scientists have decided that] only by working with a uniform | strain under controlled conditions can they hope to develop a uni- |versal repellent. | YELLOW FEVER TYPE Mr: Burgess is working with |aedes aegypti, which in their nat- | {ural habitat are carriers of yel- low fever. His specimens, how-| |ever, are pure bacteriologically| as well as genetically. They have never had yellow fever and won't get it at OAC. Canadian mosquitoes cannot be used because they won't breed in captivity--a condition essential to development of a pure strain. Aedes aegypti males are vege- tarians, living on nectar from| flowers. But females won't begin to lay eggs until they've eaten their fill of blood. The OAC project is one of sev-| {Burgess is fortunate. He's almost immune to mosquito bites, NEWS IN BRIEF PRESERVE BELLS [FATHER POINT, Que. (CP)-- Part of the steeple of the church here was torn away to remove a statue of Ste. Anne and the bells placed there when the church was built in 1882, The statue and bells will be installed in a new church now under cgnstruction. HUGE INDUSTRY PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. (CP) -- A $40,000,000 chemical pulp mill is built on the original site of the Embree and Sons Boatworks, a century-old plant that produced some of the Marie times' fastest schooners and yachts, BOOST POULTRY TRURO, N.S. (CP)--A Nova Scotia branch of the Poultry Products Institute of Canada has eral being carried out by the fed- eral agriculture department in co-operation with research sta- tions in the United States. WARTIME PRODUCTS lot space surrounding the build- ing. PLAZA SPACE In Monireal, particular stress is placed on having space for ys plazas around the new skyscrap-| Most of the mosquito repell- ers. ents now in use were developed "This is to avoid concrete{during the Second World War canyons," says planning director when fighting forces were en- Romeo Mondello. countering mosquitoes that not been formed to promote con- sumption of poultry and poultry products in Nova Scotia. SCIENTIFIC CRAFT PICTOU, N.S. (CP) -- A 31- foot echo-sounding launch has been built for the department of mines and technical surveys, |o- of six being constructed here 'for use in hydrographie surveys. Bill Domm, district sales manager of General Motors Products, presenting Al Atkinson of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd. sales staff with his 5'year Master Salesman's ring. il c Ag Mr. H. C, Mills, President of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd., con- gratulating Bade Cranfield for his sales record for many years .in the Master Salesman's Guild. ; aly HIGHLIGHTS OF The CLIFF MILLS MOTORS Lid. Sales and Service APPRECIATION DINNER Over 50 employees of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd., Sales and Service departments attended the Appre- ciation Dinner in recognition of their achievements in the Master Salesmen's Guild and the General Motors Technical Training Guild. Shown left to right are Bill Gilbert, district service manager of General Motors Products; Mr. H. C. Mills, President of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd. and Bert Smith, service manager of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd., receiving the 5 year Technical Guild Certificate. SR 4 Bill Domm, district sales manager of General Motors Products, presenting Frank White of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd. sales staff with his 5 year Master Salesman's ring. : Mr. H. C. Mills, President of the Cliff Mills Motors Ltd., con- gratulating Mr. K. L. Miller, secretary-treasurer, on complet 28 years of service.