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https://www.vancouverblock.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/history-1.jpg The lobby is the equivalent of 2 floors. Thus, the main part of the building has 14 levels. Plus 2 more window floors just below the clock. Then in-between that and the clock level is what might be a mechanical or storage floor at the 17th level. https://www.flickr.com/photos/zorro1968/7870599104/ The clock section is equivalent to 3 floors. So standing on the roof is like the 21st level.

"Burns originally envisioned a seventeen-storey structure spanning three lots, but the final design was reduced to fifteen storeys on a single 75-by-120-foot (23 by 37 m) lot." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Block#Construction

This could have been the first building in Vancouver to have a 30th floor, but its only 15. The VMV was already in place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Block#Clock_tower

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/VancouverBlock.jpg/500px-VancouverBlock.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantile_National_Bank_Building (1943) 31 floors.

Antenna spire	159.4 m (523 ft)
Roof	131.1 m (430 ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantile_National_Bank_Building#Expansion

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Mercantile_Bank_Building.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantile_National_Bank_Building#Tower_clock

Smith Tower in Seattle, WA (1914)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower "Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 462 ft (141 m) tower was among the tallest skyscrapers outside New York City at the time of its completion."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/L_C_Smith_Building%2C_Seattle%2C_1914

It would take almost 6 decades until stubborn Vancouver finally permitted a building to be of a similar height.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Centre_(Vancouver) "The skyscraper stands at just under 145m tall and 37 storeys. Royal Centre was the tallest building in Vancouver upon completion in 1973..."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jpg/500px-Royal_Centre_Vancouver.jp

Fortunately, Seattle+and+Perth never adopted anything like the VMV approach to things. Thus, they are able to have longer airport trains, wider bridges and significantly taller buildings.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=LC+Smith+Tower+in+Seattle

St Martins Tower, Perth, WA (1978)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martins_Tower is a 140-metre (460 ft) office building

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/St_Martins_Tower%2C_Perth.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Restaurant is a revolving restaurant located at Level 33 https://www.crestaurant.com.au , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F557lO6Wy_U

While a building this size (140 m) has become like a stump in Perth and Seattle, it would still be a prominent tower in stumpy Vancouver, BC.

Alberta-BC oil pipeline

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-alberta-canada-new-oil-pipeline-agreement

BC has been so reluctant to bend over and accept the big pipe from Alberta.

Alberta pitches new West Coast oil pipeline to B.C.'s South Coast https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/livestory/energy-proposal-ab-bc-west-coast-july-2-live-updates-9.7251535 Albeta pitches and BC is expected to catch.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/agreement-between-bc-and-ottawa-supports-new-alberta-pipeline/

Its not Butman, but Bitumen, but BC is expected to ben over and submit to it.

https://www.bigwestcountry.ca/2026/07/02/alberta-pitches-new-bitumen-pipeline-to-b-c-coast-with-tmx-pembina-partners/

https://www.alberta.ca/west-coast-oil-pipeline

Despite its size, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. BC has yet to have as many people as 1 Switzerland. Yet, the area of Switzerland can fit into BC 23 times.