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On the day the downtown Bay opened at 9 a.m. Nov. 18, 1926, it was the largest reinforced concrete building in Canada.

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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 01/03/2013 (3676 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

On the day the downtown Bay opened at 9 a.m. Nov. 18, 1926, it was the largest reinforced concrete building in Canada.

The total budget for the store’s construction was $5,968,000.

Here’s a snapshot of what went into the six-storey construction more than a year earlier.

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