Canadas World Renown CN Tower

Canada is a country flourishing with symbolism, which is seen among

the many structures and buildings existing in Canada. However, among
these structures and buildings, the CN Tower is recognized as the best
symbol of Canada. Today, the CN Tower is known as the very famous and
immense tower that rests a top Torontos skyline and can be observed from
any building in Toronto. Some may know it as a world-renown structure that
won many awards and held several records. The creation of the CN Tower is
significant to establishing Canadas identity as a nation around the world
because its a reason as to why Canada is so well recognized today as an
independent nation, its a showcase of how Canada demonstrates its
strength in its industries, and how it acts as a national landmark to Canada.
The CN Tower is prominently recurring throughout Canadian culture
and history, resulting in the building being very significant towards Canadas
recognition as a country and nation. One of the reasons the CN Tower is so
ideal to helping Canada to be recognized as a country and a nation is the
involvement of the CN Tower in several types of media which helped
publicize the towers existence. Among these several types of media, the CN
Tower is most commonly seen in magazine. The CN Tower has been
recommended as a great tourist destination and a good area to check out for
anyone in the Toronto area. The tower itself has received much appreciation
and awards from various magazines, one of them being the Best Award of
Excellence (since 1998) Wine Spectator Magazine. "Awards - CN Tower."
Awards - CN Tower. Web. 28 May 2016. "10 Movies You Didn't Know
Were Filmed in Toronto." Heavycom. 2013. Web. 28 May 2016. This
recognition going towards the CN Tower is also benefiting Canada in the long
term since people can see media all around the world. Media plays a big role
in promoting Canada because it means that it will achieve respect and
acknowledgement of their efforts towards their creation of the CN Tower. This
also plays a part in the second reason the CN Tower has made Canada so
well-known today, being the many tourists and Canadians that come to the
country to explore and discover the tower and its many tourist attractions
available. Tourism is vital to Canada as its a result of people in the country
and around the world recognizing Canadas achievement enough to want to
see it for themselves. Each year, 1.5 million people come to visit and see the
CN Tower, and this number increases every year to take in the breath-taking
views and enjoy all of the attractions it has to offer. "Astounding - CN
Tower." Astounding - CN Tower. Web. 29 May 2016. This shows how
much of an impact tourism makes through the 1.5 million people each year
visiting the tower. This shows that the 1.5 million people are acknowledging
Canada and its monumental accomplishment by going there to see it. This
serves an achievement more than anything else to Canada, because of
having all this nationalistic acknowledgement driven to Canada for just the
tower alone benefits Canadas reputation as a country and nation. The media

involvement that revolves around the CN Tower boosts Canadas national

recognition as a country all around the world. The tourism that is urged by
this media shows that this involvement is working in favor of Canada in
terms of getting recognition and acknowledgement as a country and a nation
through its achievement being the CN Tower.
The CN Tower is a result of Canada demonstrating its strength within
its industries as a country. The tower itself is a noble engineering
achievement in which Canada expressed its skill and abilities of the people
working on the tower, and a clear showcase on how far Canada could go with
proving how immense Canadas industries are, and in particular, the team
that was assigned to build the tower: The Canadian National Railway team.
The towers construction started on February 6th, 1973 by The Canadian
National Railway. The project was a determined project that wished to build
the tallest tower ever that involved 1,537 workers who worked 24 hours a
day for 5 days a week, for 40 months up until the completion of the tower
was finished. The idea behind the tower was not only just to build the tallest
tower in the world, but to solve a more practical problem. The CN Tower was
built to solve the issue of a lack of a larger radio wave radius. The problem
was immediately fixed and to this day, it still serves as a huge
telecommunications hub. The CN Tower was opened to the public on June
26th, 1976 and the total cost of the tower was nearly $63 million dollars.
"Astounding - CN Tower." Astounding - CN Tower. Web. 29 May 2016.
The effort and determination involved in building the CN Tower shows how
intent Canada was in proving the strength in their countrys industry, and the
construction of the CN Tower is a way Canada used to express all of this.
Based on this, it reflects Canadas character as a country which contributes
to the Canadian identity by describing what kind of country Canada exactly
is; effortful, hard-working, determined, and honest with their word. However,
the CN Tower also put up a challenge for other countries to take and beat
and the CN Tower has worked well enough to hold several records before
having that done. The CN Tower held the worlds tallest tower, and the
worlds tallest free-standing structure for a straight 34 years before the
completion of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Canton Tower in China.
"Records - CN Tower." Records - CN Tower. Web. 29 May 2016. This
long-time achievement shows that other countries had taken this challenge
seriously enough and accepted it which proves that the tower got
acknowledgement from other countries around the world. Although though
the CN Tower was still beat, it held these records for a long time meaning
that the establishment of the tower had a powerful long-lasting impact. This
gave Canada a lot of respect in the long run while the tower still held these
records, which ultimately gave Canada much recognition as a country and
nation. Without Canadas dedication to this project, and most importantly
determination to accomplish it, the CN Tower would not be as famed as it is
today and Canada would not be as respected as it is today for its creation

and most of all it wouldnt receive the same extent of recognition through its
various records and awards.

Last but not least, the CN Tower since its opening has served as an
important symbol to Canada that reflects a lot about Canada not only
through its level of dedication, or records held, but the fact that this tower is
among one of the most popular structures in Canada existing today. The CN
Tower is known by pretty much everyone in Canada, and a structure that
Canada is best known for around the world. The CN Tower is the tallest freestanding structure seen in Canada today. The CN Tower was also the only
Canadian tower declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by
the American Society of Civil Engineers which belongs to the World
Federation of Great Towers, where it holds second-place ranking. "Do You
Know the 7 Wonders of the World?" About.com Education. Web. 31
May 2016. The CN Tower is important towards representing Canada by
being a symbol because the CN Tower is one of the most popular and world
renown structures Canada is responsible for creating. The CN Tower is the
most significant structure in Canadian history and deserves to be a
symbolism of success, dedication, and determination for Canada. The CN
Tower also makes frequent appearances on several different logos for
different things. Most uses of the CN Tower on logos are used to illustrate
Canada as a country, and or Toronto as a province. One example of the CN
Tower being used to describe Canada is the logo of the 2016 Toronto All-Star
NBA Game. "Home - CN Tower." Home - CN Tower. Web. 29 May 2016.
This not only illustrates the location of where this game takes place, but the
reason behind using the CN Tower in the logo shows that the CN Tower is
better used in this logo to describe the importance of this game taking place
in Toronto than any other structure. The CN Tower itself is considered a
symbol of success, which is why its most commonly used in the logos of
these types of events. The CN Tower is very important as a symbol because it
describes Canada in the outstanding way possible through its successfulness
in the country compared to other structures, and its use in several different
logos shows how important Canadians regard this symbol to their country.
The CN Tower serves a lot of importance and purpose to Canada for
reasons being because its world renown structure that Canada is known best

for because of its media involvement and tourism. People also acknowledge
the amount of work and determination required to complete this tower to
prove the strength of Canada and its industries, and the symbolism of
success and achievement the CN Tower provides Canada because of all its
awards and records. In conclusion, Canadians cherish the CN Tower because
of all it contributes to the Canadian identity in several different ways.