It is Doors Open Weekend and Toronto has included a guided tour of the inside of the CN Tower. It is sold out, so we won't get to look up into the 300 metre hollow interior in person. We can get the tour in this CBC article HERE. Here's a trailer for the documentary The Tower that Built a City HERE. And here are pictures from the construction.
It was declared one of the Modern World Seven Wonders in 1995. It seems to me the wonders are the feats that have been accomplished. Stuntman Dar Robinson jumped off the CN Tower twice - in 1979 and 1980, first using a parachute and second time using a wire decelerator. Then there was Dan Goodwin who used his hands and feet to climb the outside of the tower twice on the same day. When the glass floor was installed in 1994 we could all have the experience of being 342 metres from the ground.
It is great to have it on the horizon across the lake - it is easy to know where Toronto is along the shoreline.
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