Harbourfront Centre

This guide to Harbourfront Centre in Toronto opens on a cold morning in 1975, when hundreds of schoolchildren signed their names onto a steel antenna segment bound for the CN Tower rising nearby. It traces why that piece of the tower was sitting on these docks in the first place, back to Ottawa's embarrassment over Expo 67 and the 1972 expropriation of the derelict waterfront where you're standing. The warehouse itself began in 1927 as the country's first poured-concrete building, stacked eight storeys with cargo from three continents.