This Traffic Control Box, one in a Heritage series by artist Tom Andrich, commemorates
the history of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is located right outside their
offices on Portage Avenue.
Tom: "That was my idea of doing the CBC and the history of CBC. Because it was the
CBC and I was reproducing their logos I had to have the right colours and the precise
shade of red. I contacted the Public Relations Department and we went over some of the
history. I had to have, include some French on there too, for the French CBC because
Radio Canada is there as well. And I had to get approval first and show them what I
intended to do."
"After the box was pretty well done I had them come down from the CBC, French CBC,
Ron Robinson came down too; Ron had done a little radio promo on it. They totally
approved everything at the end everyone was happy."
"I like the CBC box. My one regret with the box was I didn't check out the place it was
going exactly beforehand. I never considered how tight it was going to be to the building
and I didn't think about which side would be facing the building because they (city traffic
maintenance) would be opening it on the sidewalk side, on the traffic side. If I had
considered this, I would have changed the design slightly to present the more important
elements. The large CBC logo is facing the building and it's the old logo that's facing
Portage. I would have preferred a different orientation."
