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Toronto Distances to other cities:
Mississauga
Distance: 27 Km’s
Travel Time: 22 minutes
Oshawa
Distance: 62 Km’s
Travel Time:
42 minutes
Markham
Distance: 31 Km’s
Travel Time:
3 Hours and 42 Minutes
Brampton
Distance: 41 Km’s
Travel Time:
30 Minutes
Niagara Falls
Distance: 130 Km’s
Travel Time:
1 Hour and 25 minutes
Sudbury
Distance: 388 Km’s
Travel Time:
4 Hours and 38 minutes
Ottawa
Distance: 452 Km’s
Travel Time: 4 Hours
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There are many attractions scattered around areas of Toronto including Toronto Zoo and the Ontario Science Centre. The McMichael Art Collection, in nearby Kleinburg, contains an outstanding collection of paintings by the Group of Seven in a modernist setting.
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The Hockey Hall of Fame is a popular attraction and is located at BCE Place, 30 Yonge Street (Phone 416-360-7735). You’ll find the history of Canadian hockey along with all the famous “Stanley Cup”, trophies, jerseys, antique sticks, skates, masks and an amazing replica of the Montreal Canadians locker room. Hotels near the Hockey Hall of Fame. A small theatre room shows movies of hockey’s most celebrated games.
Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts is owned and operated by City Hall and is one of Toronto’s largest performing arts venues with over 3,000 seats. It is home to both the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada. The Hummingbird also offers a wide ranging program include light comedy shows, children’s entertainment’s and musicals. Located at 1 Front St. East - Phone: 416-393-7474 for ticket information.
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Toronto City Hall was designed by the award-winning Finnish architect Viljo Revell an completed in 1964. At the official opening, the Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced, “it is an edifice as modern as tomorrow,” but for many city folk tomorrow had come too soon and there were howls of protest from several squaters. Even, now all these years later the building still looks modern. With two curved concrete and glass towers framing a central circular building where the Toronto Councils meet. Nearby, the 19th century Old City Hall.
Royal Alexandra Theatre puts on fantastic plays but specializes in big-hit Broadway musicals, which are often held over for months at a time. Evenings performances are extremely popular; theatergoers stand in line to admire the interior as much as the show, and booking promptly is recommended. Early arrivals can enjoy the original Edwardian features in the bar before the show. Located at 260 King St. West - Phone 416-872-1212.
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Ontario Parliament Buildings an impressive display of history built in 1893 that dominated the end of University Avenue. The building has huge towers with arches, rose windows decorated with carvings and set beneath a series of high pitched roofs. The interior is of matching grandeur. Gilded classical columns frame the main staircase and enormous stained glass windows illuminate long and richly timbered galleries. The chamber is a lavish affair, with a wealth of fine wooden carvings. Located at Queens Park - Phone: 416-325-7500.
Royal Ontario Museum founded in 1912, holds a vast and extraordinarily wide-ranging collection draw from the fields of fine and applied art, the natural sciences and the archaeology. The museum is far too large to absorb in one visit, and merits several trips to appreciate its many skeletons from around the world and the fabulous Far East collection. The latter features the best display outside China of Imperial Chinese artifacts. The most popular in the gallery is Dinosaur Gallery with 13 dinosaur skeletons are set in simulation of the the Jurassic Age. Other exhibits include: Museum facade, Ming Tomb, Greek head of Zeus, Egyptian Mummy (large collection of mummies), Gallery Guide and Bat Cave. Hotels near Royal Ontario Museum
Located 100 Queen’s Park - Phone 416-586-8000.
Ontario Place is an excellent theme park, this waterfront complex on Lake Ontario is built on three artificial inlets. It provides family entertainment, with rides both tame and terrifying. Inside, the Children’s Village is equipped with playgrounds and swimming pools, long water slides and computer games and bumper boats, while Cinesphere is a huge dome housing a giant IMAX cinema. Hotels near Ontario Place.
Located 955 Lakeshore Blvd. - Phone 416-314-9900
Art Gallery of Ontario is located at 317 Dundas Street West. The Gallery has an extensive collection of fine art and sculptures including Rembrandt, Picasso, Henry Moore and Giovanni del Biondo.
Eaton Centre - if Toronto has a specific core it would be outside the Eaton Centre shopping mall at the Yonge and Dundas intersection. The Eaton Centre boast that it sells anything available in the world.
Fort York was built by the British in 1793 to reinforce their control of Lake Ontario and to protect the city that is now Toronto. The historic military compound has been painstakingly restored, and its barracks, old power magazine, and officers quarters make for a pleasant visit.
Located Garrision Road - Phone 416-392-6907
Toronto Zoo can claim to have one of the worlds best zoos. The animals are grouped according to their natural habitats, both outside, amid the mixed forest and flatlands of the river valley, and inside with a series of large, climate controlled pavilions. Visitors can tour the zoo by choosing one of the carefully marked trails, or hop aboard the Zoombilie, a 30 minute ride with commentary, which give a n excellent overview. Be ready to spend the day! Located 361A Old Finch Ave. Scarborough - Phone 416-392-5900
The Toronto Islands located just off shore from the city are connected by footbridges, shelter Toronto’s harbour and provide some easy going recreation in a car free environment. It takes about half an hour to walk from one end to the islands to the other. In the east is Ward’s Island, a sleepy residential area with parkland and wilderness, Centre Island, home to the Centreville Amusement Park for children, is in the middle and to the west lies the isle of Hanlan’s Point with the Island best beach.
Ontario Science Centre is one of Toronto’s most popular sights attracting children in droves. They come for the center’s interactive displays and hands on exhibits exploring and investigating all manner of phenomena, which are divided into 12 categories. These include the Living Earth, Matter-Energy-Change, the information Highway, and the Human Body. Visitors can land on the moon and travel the end of the universe.
Located 770 Don Mills Road - Phone 416-696-3177.
Go Leafs Go!
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