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Originally Posted by lio45
Amusing how different Chad's view is from mine: he gives the heights, but not the construction dates, while if it were me I'd be giving construction dates, not heights. To each their own
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The date is significant for how impressive a building was at a given height when built. For example I was thinking of the sugar refinery and it was probably one of the tallest buildings in Canada back in the 1800's (there were many refineries like this and they tended to be built in this way, no doubt for some functional reason). It would have been pretty common in the 1920's and totally unremarkable in the 1960's. The architectural style is reminiscent of a hugely scaled up 1800's brownstone which is distinctive.
(Sadly the bigger historical industrial sites of the Maritimes had a ~100% fatality rate, with maybe 1/4 being destroyed in 1917. There are a bunch of medium sized ones left but that's it as far as I know. You could do an exhaustive tour of the Maritimes and conclude it never had any big factories in the 1910 or earlier.)