RC Harris water treatment plant

[sabotabby]

"– Your goddamn herringbone tiles in the toilets cost more than half our salaries put together.
— Yes, that's true.
— Aren't you ashamed of that?
— You watch, in fifty years they're going to come here and gape at the herringbone and the copper roofs. We need excess, something to live up to. I fought tooth and nail for that herringbone.
— You fought. You fought. Think about those who built the intake tunnels. Do you know how many of us died in there?
— There was no record kept." — Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin Of a Lion

This one's been on the bucket list since Grade 11 English. It opens to the public once a year, for doors open, and I finally got to see it.

Comments

[selki]

Wow, I didn't know about this when I lived in Rochester, or I might have tried to visit when I went to Toronto a few times (for the Toronto International Film Festival).

[sabotabby]

I've lived in Toronto more than half of my life and I've never been to TIFF *sob*. And this is the first time I've been to RC Harris, despite having known about it since before I moved to Toronto!

[selki]

Back in the 1990s, I could buy a pass to see 10 movies at TIFF, I think for about as much as 10 normal movie tickets or not much more, and pack it all in during a long weekend. I don't remember how I would reserve for specific movie shows/times. My last year, they changed the ticket-buying process to make it more convenient for locals than for visitors (perfectly reasonable of them). It looks like they structure it differently (more expensively) now. I hope you get to go soon.