The Old_City_Hall opened in 1899 at a height of 103.64 m (340.0 ft).
The Simpson_Tower opened in 1968. It has 33 floors and is 144 m (472 ft) high. It would be equivalent to being the tallest building in BC until 1973. Even in 2025, most office towers in Vancouver aren't allowed to be taller than this 1968 Toronto stump.
Not only did The+Post+in+Vancouver have to be shorter than the Toronto Simpson Tower and the L.A. City Hall, it had to be shorter than the Old City Hall in Toronto. Now that's very small, but it fits in with the small-minded Vancouver mentality. Indeed, Vancouverization is about a backward, rainy city that has a multigenerational agenda to water everything down. Even the mountains north of Vancouver are shorter than the mountains north of L.A.
