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Cranes in the spotlight: Highlights from our 2025 Photo Contest
Our 2025 Photo Contest set a new bar when it comes to showcasing the hard work of Canada's heavy lifting industry.
September 29, 2025
By Jack Burton
2025's Photo Contest highlights include submissions from LaPrairie Crane, Eagle West, and Irving Equipment (L-R). Crane & Hoist Canada’s annual photo contest is a celebration of the complex and creative lifts being performed by our readers from across the country. This year saw record submissions of companies eager to show off their projects through high-quality, stunning shots of their work – though this led to a tough selection process, it also led to this beautiful collection showing off Canada’s heavy lifting sector.
While GUAY emerged as this year’s winner for their work on Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, we’d like to congratulate all entrants for setting such an incredibly high bar. We couldn’t be more excited to share some of the highlights and standout submissions from across the country below.
Special thanks to Claire Bélanger-Parker and the CCRA for partnering with Crane & Hoist Canada on this year’s installment of the contest. Don’t forget to have your cameras at the ready for your chance to have your work showcased in next year’s edition!
Eagle West Crane & Rigging
Where: Mission, British Columbia
When: December 2024
About: Crews assist Eagle West’s Liebherr LTM 1220 hydraulic crane, equipped with counterweight, in hoisting tilt panels on a job site.
Encore Trucking & Transport Ltd.
Where: Edmonton, Alberta
When: July 2025
About: Encore’s Western Star 4800SB, equipped with a Manitex 45155SHL picker, lifting and installing a floating dock system on the shores of the North Saskatchewan River at Louise McKinney park, with the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald in the background.
Grues J.M. Francoeur
Where: Montreal, Quebec
When: August 2024
About: A 650-tonne Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 helps to erect a 90-foot tower crane base at the Port of Montreal for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Championship.
Irving Equipment
Where: West Hants, Nova Scotia
When: July 2025
About: Irving’s Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 hoisting the second tower section of a wind turbine for part of the Benjamin Mills Wind Project in West Hants Municipality, Nova Scotia.
LaPrairie Crane
Where: Valleyview, Alberta
When: Early 2024
About: LaPrairie put their Demag AC-200 240-ton, Grove GMK6220 275-ton and 500-ton Liebherr LTM-1440 to work as part of their replacement of the five-span Sweathouse Creek Bridge for the Alberta Ministry of Transportation and Economic Corridors.
Mammoet
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Where: Waterloo, Ontario
When: August 2024
About: Mammoet Canada’s Eastern team used a Demag AC500 and Liebherr LTM 1650, alongside Goldhofer trailers, to complete the lift and setting of a 213-ton pedestrian bridge across Ontario’s Highway 7/8.
Premform
(Photo: Cropac Equipment)
Where: Mississauga, Ontario
When: Spring/Summer 2025
About: A Terex CTT 472-20 from Cropac Equipment works on the 81-storey, 260-metre M3 Tower; the tallest in the M City high-rise development.
Steelcon
(Photo: Matthew Zen)
Where: Toronto, Ontario
When: May 2025
About: A Liebherr luffing jib tower crane installs steel beams on a rooftop in the downtown core of Toronto as part of a renovation project.
Sterling Crane
Where: Hope, British Columbia
When: October 2024
About: Sterling’s LTM 1250 navigated steep climbs and descents across narrow, muddy one-way roads for a riverbank set-up 40 kilometres into the bush.
TNT Crane & Rigging
Where: Edmonton, Alberta
When: August 2024
About: TNT’s Liebherr 1160-5.2 and Demag AC160-2 tackled the stage and speaker tower set-up at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium over two days to prepare for a concert by Metallica.
Toronto Beyond Media
(Photo: Justin McConnell, Toronto Beyond Media)
Where: Windsor, Ontario
When: June 2025
About: Mammoet’s Tadano CC 38.650 crawler crane helps with dismantling one of the Comansa tower cranes that helped in building the Gordie Howe International Bridge over the last five years.