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Tower Topping, A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce b(...)
Tower Topping, A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce b(...)

Tower Topping, A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce b(...)

Date3/20/1989
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  • Tower Topping; A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce building was at one time the tallest building in the British Empire.
  • Tower Topping, A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce b(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Tower Topping; A just-completed Scotia Plaza tower casts a tall shadow over the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce tower built in 1931. The Commerce building was at one time the tallest building in the British Empire.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0109396F
53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)
53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)
Bank of Nova Scotia
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Spremo, Boris
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The traditional Bank of Commerce tower is open again for banking business-in the grand, old style, complete with beautiful high-ceilinged main banking(...)
The traditional Bank of Commerce tower is open again for banking business-in the grand, old style, complete with beautiful high-ceilinged main banking(...)
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Scotia Plaza gets logo, Workers deck Scotia Plaza out with its stylized S logo as the office tower nears completion at King and Bay Sts. Robert Campea(...)
Scotia Plaza gets logo, Workers deck Scotia Plaza out with its stylized S logo as the office tower nears completion at King and Bay Sts. Robert Campea(...)
Bank of Nova Scotia
9/21/1988
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch, originally Canadian Bank of Commerce branch, Dundas Street West, north side, between Keele Street and Pacific Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
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Canadian Bank of Commerce
1982
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch, originally Canadian Bank of Commerce branch, Bloor Street West, southwest corner of Lippincott Street, Toronto, Ontario.
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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
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Topping off the golden tower, With Duncan McGregor, superintendent of the project, standing by, the last bucket of concrete was poured yesterday at th(...)
Topping off the golden tower, With Duncan McGregor, superintendent of the project, standing by, the last bucket of concrete was poured yesterday at th(...)
Bull, Ron
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It's still a hole but with a difference, The site of the twin-tower Royal Bank Plaza at Front and Bay Streets in Toronto still looks a heck of a lot l(...)
It's still a hole but with a difference, The site of the twin-tower Royal Bank Plaza at Front and Bay Streets in Toronto still looks a heck of a lot l(...)
Royal Bank of Canada
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Heading for new heights, construction worker Ab Ivany, now working on new Commerce Court tower that will rise 57 storeys, recalls that 41 years ago, i(...)
Heading for new heights, construction worker Ab Ivany, now working on new Commerce Court tower that will rise 57 storeys, recalls that 41 years ago, i(...)
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
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Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Banks - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Building
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Banks - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Building
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Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Banks - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Building
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
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