Absolute banger I love learning about my city from this - why has CBC not given this man funding for a documentary series yet smh can someone please write the grant application to the city of Toronto already
I love the local content but he currently needs to work on his screen personality. Get a stabilizing gimbal camera mount and move away from the wide angle shots since you don't move your body. Throw in some more b-roll shots so you don't have to memorize the whole segment shots. And keep up the good work :)
Lol the cbc? You mean a branch of the government who will just turn this extremely educational and entertaining channel in to leftist propaganda? Nah. Get out with that idea. The cbc needs to be defunded and go away.
Please keep doing what you’re doing and don’t start over-producing your videos once the algorithm blesses you! Your tone, your pace, your style, we love it!
Thanks! There's a "thanks" feature that lets you do this - somewhere near the like/dislike links on the video, and possibly hidden in the vertical "..." menu. Or just keep watching them and sharing them with people as I get a fraction of a penny each time RU-vid shows an ad.
Steve, your videos are amazing! Great pieces of history and architecture (RC Harris plant looks beautiful). Thanks for doing this research and making these videos for us.
This feels like a perfect pairing with topics from Grady on Practical Engineering. That is a great channel for infrastructure stuff, and you've done a similarly great job here covering this topic.
Great video! The Baldwin treatment plant in Cleveland (dating from 1925), while not as grand as RC Harris, is nonetheless another example of a utilitarian building whose architecture was taken seriously.
One of the first things I noticed when moving to Toronto from further north in Ontario was how soft the water was in the city. I like it better than the well water up north- tastes better too!
I would have loved to have been taught this in school. Stuff like this can inspire people find a career in solving real problems. This is the first time I've heard about the water being collected and discharged from the bottom of the lake.
I used to bike around the palace of purity regularly when I lived downtown and it was a short trip east. Did renovation engineering on some of the old houses nearby, completely gutting them, removing all the interior walls.
I deliver fluoride to the RC Harris plant and I absolutely love it because of the view. I am parked just behind where he is standing. There’s a door that they open up in the grass and it all goes into a tank underground.
SCTV filmed a skit of "Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town" with Andrea Martin and John Candy at the RC Harris Water Treatment plant probably circa 1982. The outside facade was supposed to be the Melonville Prison, and Mrs. Falbo was going inside to sing songs to the inmates.
R.C. Harris is an important part of The Beaches. How else would you know where they stop? I've always loved how cities are named after their water towers.
If anyone has ever read Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, which takes place in Toronto in the 20s and 30s, you’ll know of the R.C. Harris Treatment Plant… would recommend this book over any I’ve ever read
I don't even live in Toronto, but I find your videos fascinating nevertheless. I wish there was a similar channel dedicated to Québec city. Maybe there is... But I didn't find it yet.
I do, I even helped build some of her Towers. But dude... It no longer feels Canadian. Like man... how many times do you see or hear different foreign languages... like dude. We lost our home
@@Robert_D_Mercer Not sure why you posted this reply on my comment, but anyways... You didn't loose your home (unless you literally mean it). You gained new neighbors.
Yes, both of these plants have been participants in Doors Open in the past (that's when I took the interior photos), and may well do so in future. It's the last weekend in May each year. They post the list of buildings on the City's Web site each year a few weeks before the event.
The RC Harris plant was used as the filming site for "Last of the Red Hot Fools" by The Jitters, probably in the early 1980s: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AyMuJakVHJU.html
@@brianbarker2551 Sunscreen can be good to prevent skin cancer, and insect-repellent can prevent mosquito & tick bites too, BUT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK IT INTO YOUR BODY !!! There is more than enough fluoride in toothpastes already, we do not need to drink this toxin !
