CN Tower

CN Tower
General information
Town or city	Toronto, Ontario
Country	Canada
Began	1973
Completed	1976

The CN Tower is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower located in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From its completion in 1976, the CN Tower held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years until 2007 when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa, and was the world's tallest tower until 2009 when it was surpassed by the Canton Tower. It remains the tallest free-standing structure on land in the Western Hemisphere.

Popular Culture

Appearances

Variants

The following list is of explicit appearances of the CN Tower.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1982	CN Tower	Highpoint	Accountant Lewis Kinney (Richard Harris) has his final encounter with his former employer, the embezzler James Hatcher (Christopher Plummer). Stuntman Dar Robinson jumped off the tower in freefall, for which he was paid $150,000.
1995	Canadian National Tower	Canadian Bacon	Military industrialist R. J. Hacker (G. D. Spradlin) of Hacker Dynamics conceals the central computer containing the Hacker Hellstorm in the Tower, exploiting an ongoing cold war between the United States and Canada. Sheriff Bud Boomer (John Candy), his girlfriend Honey (Rhea Perlman), and Delta Force converge on the tower to stop what they believe is a terrorist attack by Prime Minister Clark MacDonald (Wallace Shawn).

Links

• The CN Tower on Wikipedia
• The CN Tower on the Canadian Encyclopedia
• The CN Tower on Encyclopædia Britannica