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This is a list of the tallest one hundred structures in
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, measured from the base to the tallest point. Which may be the roof top, antenna,
spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires a ...
, mast or as in the case with smokestacks and bridges, the highest structural point. This list includes buildings,
towers A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. Towers are specific ...
,
transmission tower A transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon or simply a pylon in British English and as a hydro tower in Canadian English, is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. In electrical ...
s, chimneys,
bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
s and
oil platforms An oil platform (or oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, and similar terms) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platfor ...
. There is a separate list for
guyed mast A guyed mast or guyed tower is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not ha ...
s since their heights are not fully verifiable and may be inaccurate by several metres; ''i.e.'' - several are measured to the height of the tallest transmitter on the mast, but this is not necessarily the tallest point of the tower. The pinnacle height and roof height numbers are sourced from Skyscraperpage and/or the CTBUH. Where there is a conflict in the figures both heights are listed.


Tallest 100 structures in Canada (not including guyed masts)


Timeline of the tallest structures in Canada

Timeline of the tallest freestanding structures in Canada: Timeline of the tallest structures overall in Canada:


Tallest structure by province

Ordered by tallest structure of any type ever built in said province. If that structure is not freestanding, then the tallest freestanding structure in said province is listed directly below the tallest structure in the above mentioned province.


Tallest observation towers in Canada


Tallest guyed masts in Canada


Tallest lattice towers in Canada

indicates a structure that is no longer standing.


Tallest smokestacks/chimneys in Canada

indicates a structure that is no longer standing.
Demolished structures are not ranked but left in their previous position on the list. The
Tracy Thermal Generating Station The Tracy Thermal Generating Station is a retired 660-megawatt heavy fuel oil-fueled thermal power station built from 1962 by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company and completed by Hydro-Québec after the buyout of all private electric utiliti ...
has four 449 ft (137 m) stacks.


Tallest destroyed/demolished structures in Canada

There are two separate lists, once again one for free standing structures and one for guyed masts. This is because of incomplete information regarding the height and number of demolished guyed masts. Tallest freestanding demolished structures: Tallest demolished
guyed mast A guyed mast or guyed tower is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not ha ...
s:


See also

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List of tallest buildings in Canada This is a list of the tallest buildings in Canada. As of December 2017 there are a total of 133 completed and under construction buildings in Canada with an official height of or more. Greater Toronto has 86 (Toronto 83 (including the eight ta ...
* List of old Canadian buildings *
Architecture of Canada The architecture of Canada is, with the exception of that of Canadian First Nations, closely linked to the techniques and styles developed in Canada, Europe and the United States. However, design has long needed to be adapted to Canada's climate ...
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Architecture of Montreal The architecture of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is characterized by the juxtaposition of the old and the new and a wide variety of architectural styles, the legacy of two successive colonizations by the French, the British, and the close presence of ...
* Architecture of Ottawa * Architecture of Toronto * Architecture of Quebec City


Sources

Skyscraperpage * * * Emporis * Calgary - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=100992&bt=9&ht=3&sro=0 * Montreal - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=100991&bt=9&ht=3&sro=0 * Niagara Falls - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=101474&bt=9&ht=3&sro=0 * Toronto - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=100993&bt=9&ht=3&sro=0 * Vancouver - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=100997&bt=9&ht=3&sro=0 CTBUH * Other *


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