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Old Posted Jul 22, 2015, 6:44 AM
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Originally Posted by MarkR View Post
Part of City folklore is that on one of Campeau's buildings (maybe this one?) he made it taller that the original plan. He achieved this on a long weekend by paying his workers extra and getting three more floors added. It was of course noticed, but with City Hall not reopening until the following Tuesday not much could be done. And once built they were not (at least in those days) going to order him to remove those extra floors.

Pretty funny / outrageous if true.
Yes, this is the one, and it is just folklore. My mother was employed as his assistant during the 70s and 80s.
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