CN Tower Illuminated - Toronto, Meet Your New Skyline!

With great fanfare, a few too many speeches, some bagpipe action, and plenty of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’, the CN Tower officially switched on its illumination around 10pm earlier tonight. While we’ve been seeing the new system tested over the past several weeks, the light show that they put on tonight was nothing short of spectacular.

The official ceremonies tonight at Roundhouse Park (just south of the Tower, giving a real break-neck view of the structure) started with a live performance by the Campbell Brothers followed by Broadway legend Colm Wilkinson that really fired the crowd up. Peppered by a number of speeches by CN Tower Chief Operating Officer Jack Robinson, Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty, Mayor David Miller, to name a few, the anticipation continued to grow throughout the night and you could see it on everyones’ faces that they were thinking ‘Just turn the damn lights on already!’

Keep reading for video of the 10-minute show, photos, and details on the lighting units themselves from inside the tower!

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June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Writing