Canada's Wonderland is a 330-acre (1.3 km) theme park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada and is located within the Greater Toronto Area. The park is open seasonally from May to October and contains more than 200 attractions. It opened in 1981 and was Canada's first major theme park. The park, when under the ownership of Paramount Parks from 1994 to 2006 was known as Paramount Canada's Wonderland. When sold to Cedar Fair in 2007, the park reverted to its...
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Canada's Wonderland is a 330-acre (1.3 km) theme park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada and is located within the Greater Toronto Area. The park is open seasonally from May to October and contains more than 200 attractions. It opened in 1981 and was Canada's first major theme park. The park, when under the ownership of Paramount Parks from 1994 to 2006 was known as Paramount Canada's Wonderland. When sold to Cedar Fair in 2007, the park reverted to its original name. It was designed by Landscape Architects Richard Strong and Associates and structurally engineered by O.T. Baggio and Associates Professional Engineers. The park was the most attended seasonal theme park in North America two years in a row (2005 and 2006). In 2006, attendance was just over 3.2 million. Notably, with 15 roller coasters the park, holds the record for the most roller coasters in one park outside of the United States.
In 1972, the Taft Broadcasting Company first proposed building a 1.5-square-kilometre (370-acre)...
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