To any monctonian, the landmark doesn't need any presentation, or does it? When it was built, it was called the NBTel tower, when all the maritimes joined their phone companies together like twelve years ago it became the Aliant tower, and now it's the BellAliant tower, as part of the gigantic Bell Media empire...
It was built in the early 1970's because the construction of a new high-rise in the area could disturb radio wave transmission. Our french cousins from across the Atlantic had already been trailblazers in the art of rigging antenaes to fancy towers, it was just a matter of time before someone on this side tried to follow the family tradition...
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| Pictured above, the "cousins". Yes, they always do everything way fancier than us... |
It out-skyscraped the now Assumption Place by about 40 meters. It sits just across Botsford street from our city hall and even though I hate corporate Canada as much as anyone, the thing gives a nice little touch to our city skyline.
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| Left, that's Assumption place. Middle, that's the tower and right, that's the Blue Cross center. |
It sits bascically at the geographical center of the Maritimes and in a city that's about thirty percent bilingual and fifty percent call centers, I think it's a symbol that fits. A few years ago with the lights on top it looked like an old time lighthouse in an age and city of fibreoptics and Wifi. In Sooky's universe, dogs seem to pee and sniff around as a form of telecomunication. Seems logic that the biggest telephone pole of them all is where every dog wants to leave his mark.
Well, that peice of already-outdated technology sure has left its mark on Moncton...
Well, that peice of already-outdated technology sure has left its mark on Moncton...
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| Make no mistake, though, the Petitcodiac will never be that clear. More on this next post.... |
