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Historic photo of Kahnawake, ca. 1860. Kahnawake is located on the southwest shore where the Saint Lawrence River narrows. The territory is described in the native language as "on, or by the rapids" (of the Saint Lawrence River) [8] (in French, it was originally called Sault du St-Louis, also related to the rapids).
Five of Canada's ten largest cities enforce height restriction laws. In Ottawa, skyscrapers could not be built above the height of the Peace Tower until the late 1970s, when the restriction was changed so that no building could overwhelm the skyline. [1] In Montreal, skyscrapers cannot be built above 200m of height nor the elevation of Mount ...
Mohawk skywalkers is a nickname for Mohawk ironworkers and other construction workers who have helped construct buildings and bridges in American and Canadian cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
Indigenous peoples in Canada (also known as Aboriginals) [2] are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations , [ 3 ] Inuit , [ 4 ] and Métis , [ 5 ] representing roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population .
This is a list of the tallest one hundred structures in Canada, measured from the base to the tallest point. Which may be the roof top, antenna, spire, mast or as in the case with smokestacks and bridges, the highest structural point. This list includes buildings, towers, transmission towers, chimneys, bridges and oil platforms.
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Edmonton, the capital city of the province of Alberta in Canada. Edmonton has twenty-four buildings taller than 100 metres (330 ft). The tallest is the Stantec Tower , the tallest Canadian building outside Toronto , which surpassed the previous record holder, JW Marriott Edmonton Ice District ...
Canada's cities span the continent of North America from east to west, but many of them are located relatively close to the border with the United States.Cities are home to the majority of Canada's approximately 35.75 million inhabitants (as of 2015)—just over 80 percent of Canadians lived in urban areas in 2006.
Most of the city's skyscrapers, including the tallest, were built between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Château Frontenac was the tallest building in the province of Quebec from the completion of its tallest tower in 1924 to the completion of Montreal's Royal Bank Tower in 1928.