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Toronto
Toronto (pronounced /təˈrɒntoʊ/, colloquially /ˈtrɒnoʊ/ or /təˈrɒnoʊ/) is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality...
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East York
East York was formerly a semi-autonomous borough within the overall municipality of Metropolitan Toronto before East York, North York, York, Scarborough, Etobicoke and Toronto were amalgamated into the new "megacity" of Toronto in 1998. One of East...
Area:
- 21.26 km² (8.209 mi² )
Etobicoke
Etobicoke (pronounced /ɛˈtoʊbɨkoʊ/ ( listen), with a silent 'k') is the western portion of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with an official population of 338,117 as measured by the 2001 Census and 334,491 people as of the 2006 Census. While it...
Area:
- 123.93 km² (47.85 mi² )
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North York
North York forms the central part of the northern half of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of the 2006 Census, it has a population of 635,370. The official 2001 census count was 608,288. Until 1998, it was the second-largest of six municipalities that...
Area:
- 176.87 km² (68.29 mi² )
Scarborough
Scarborough (pronounced /ˈskɑrbəroʊ/) (2006 Census 602,575) is the eastern part of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was named in 1796 by Elizabeth Simcoe, who was inspired by the Scarborough Bluffs, which reminded her of the white cliffs...
Area:
- 187.7 km² (72.47 mi² )
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (U of T, or simply Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated north of the city's Financial District on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by Royal Charter in 1827 as...
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Victoria University is a federated school of the University of Toronto, consisting of Victoria College and Emmanuel College. Victoria University is somewhat separated from the rest of the university geographically, bordering Queen's Park, and being...
York University
York University (French: Université York) is a university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology...
Ryerson University
Ryerson University is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Canada. Its urban campus surrounds Yonge and Dundas Square, with the majority of its buildings in the blocks northeast of the square in Toronto's Garden District. The...
College Park
College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. The population was 24,657 at the 2000 census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the "Archives II"...
Area:
- 14.08954 km² (5.44 mi² )
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University of Trinity College
The University of Trinity College, referred to locally as Trinity College or colloquially as Trin, is one of the federated colleges making up the University of Toronto. The college also houses an Anglican seminary, and is a constituent member of the...
Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. Originally opened in 1989, it is home to the American League's Toronto Blue Jays, the...
New College, University of Toronto
New College is one of the four constituent Colleges of the University of Toronto in Canada. One of the larger colleges with nearly 5000 students, it stands on Huron Street in the historic campus' west-end, nestled alongside the major Science...
Yonge Street
Yonge Street (pronounced "young") is a major arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its northern suburbs. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at 1,896 km (1,178 mi), and is a national...
Union station
A union station or union terminal is a train station where tracks and facilities are shared by two or more railway companies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. Often the station is used by all passenger trains serving the...
Highway 401
The King's Highway 401 (also known as the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway) is a highway that extends across Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the longest 400-Series Highway in Ontario, and one of the widest and busiest highways in the world. In fact, the...
Spadina Expressway
The Spadina Expressway was a proposed freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally to run from north of Highway 401 into the downtown of Toronto via the Cedarvale and Nordheimer Ravines and Spadina Road, it was only partially built before being...
Gardiner Expressway
The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway, known locally as "the Gardiner", is an expressway connecting downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada with its western suburbs. Running close to the shore of Lake Ontario, it now extends from the junction of Highway...
Quantum
In physics, a quantum (plural: quanta) is the minimum unit of any physical entity involved in an interaction. An example of an entity that is quantized is the energy transfer of elementary particles of matter (called fermions) and of photons and...
University of Toronto Scarborough
The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The campus was opened as the Scarborough College in 1964 as part of the university's...
Queen's Park, Toronto
Queen's Park is an urban park in the Downtown area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1860 by Edward, Prince of Wales, it was named in honour of Queen Victoria. The park is the site of the Ontario Legislative Building, which houses the...
Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM, is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's largest museum of world culture and natural history. The ROM is the fifth largest museum in North America, containing more than six million...
Ontario College of Art & Design
The Ontario College of Art & Design (commonly referred to by its acronym, OCAD; pronounced /oʊ.kæd/, oh-kad) is Canada's largest and oldest university for art and design. It is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on McCaul Street beside the Art...
University College, University of Toronto
University College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Toronto. UC was founded in 1853 as The Provincial College to provide higher education in Ontario without regard to religious affiliation. Currently, 4,100 students and 100...
Toronto Eaton Centre
The Toronto Eaton Centre is a large shopping mall and office complex in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the now-defunct Eaton's department store chain that once anchored it. In terms of the number of visitors, the shopping mall is...
Don Valley Parkway
The Don Valley Parkway (generally referred to as the DVP) is a controlled-access six-lane freeway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named because it runs through the parklands of the Don River Valley.
The northern terminus of the Don Valley Parkway is...
Prince Edward Viaduct
The Prince Edward Viaduct System is the name of a truss arch bridge system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that connects Bloor Street East, on the west side of the system, with Danforth Avenue on the east. The Don Valley phase of the system, more...
Bridle Path, Toronto
The Bridle Path is an upscale residential neighbourhood in the former city of North York, now part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is characterized by large multi-million dollar mansions and two to four acre (8,000 to 16,000 m²) lot sizes. It is...
High Park
High Park is the largest park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It spans 161 hectares (398 acres, 1.61 km²). It is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a...
The Kingsway
The Kingsway, known also as Kingsway South is a residential neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former City of Etobicoke, an area that became the west end of Toronto upon amalgamation in 1998. It is bounded by Bloor...
Church and Wellesley
Church and Wellesley is an LGBT-oriented community located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Gerrard Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the core...
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Bay Street
Bay Street is a street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the centre of Toronto's financial district and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada's financial industry just as Wall Street is used in the United States and The City in the...
Woodsworth College
Woodsworth College, named after politician and clergyman James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942), is a college within the University of Toronto. It is the largest college in the Faculty of Arts and Science on the St. George Campus. It is also the newest...
Air Canada Centre
The Air Canada Centre (ACC) is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario. It is the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and the...
Cherry Beach
Cherry Beach is a lakeside park located at the foot of Cherry Street just south of Unwin Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is on Toronto's outer harbour just east of the Eastern Gap.
It was originally named Clarke Beach Park after Harry Clarke,...
Swansea
Swansea is a neighbourhood in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, bounded on the west by the Humber River, on the north by Bloor Street, on the east by High Park and on the south by Lake Ontario. The neighbourhood was originally a separate...
Spadina House
Spadina House, also called Spadina Museum, is an historic manor on Spadina Road in Toronto, Canada that is now a museum operated by the City of Toronto Culture Division. The museum preserves the house much as it existed and developed historically....
York West
York West is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904 and since 1917, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Its population was 110...
Queen Street West
Queen Street West describes both the western branch of Queen Street, a major east-west thoroughfare, and a series of neighbourhoods or commercial districts, situated west of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Queen Street begins in...
Toronto-Dominion Centre
The Toronto-Dominion Centre, or T-D Centre, is a cluster of buildings in downtown Toronto, Ontario, consisting of six towers and a pavilion covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel, and serving as the global headquarters of the Toronto...
Gerrard Street, Toronto
Gerrard Street is a street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It consists of two separate parts, one running east from University Avenue for 6 km to Coxwell Avenue, and the other starting 300 m north along Coxwell and continuing east for another 4 km to...
Toronto Zoo
The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened August 15, 1974 as the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo and is owned by the City of Toronto; the word 'Metropolitan' was dropped from its name when the...
Ontario Science Centre
Ontario Science Centre (OSC) (or in French: Centre des sciences de l'Ontario) is a science museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near the Don Valley Parkway about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) northeast of downtown on Don Mills Road just south of Eglinton...
Ontario Place
Ontario Place is a multiple use entertainment and seasonal amusement park in Toronto, Ontario, and owned by the Crown in Right of Ontario. Located on the shore of Lake Ontario, just south of Exhibition Place, it is approximately 4 km west of...
Black Creek Pioneer Village
Black Creek Pioneer Village is a historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River. The village is a recreation of...
Arcadian Court
The Arcadian Court is an Art Deco restaurant and banquet hall on the eighth floor of the downtown Toronto location of the Canadian department store The Bay, whose wrought iron railings, arched windows and huge chandeliers made it one of Toronto's...
Toronto School of Theology
The Toronto School of Theology (TST) is an ecumenical centre for graduate theological education and the largest of its kind in Canada and the English-speaking world. Affiliated with the University of Toronto, the TST comprises seven member colleges...
Woodbine Racetrack
Woodbine Racetrack is a Canadian racetrack for Thoroughbred horse races located at 555 Rexdale Blvd. in the city of Toronto, Ontario. It is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and...
RCC College of Technology
The RCC Institute of Technology (previously known as RCC College of Technology) is a private technical college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1928, and has recently become a division of Yorkville University. The college...
Fort York
Fort York is a historic site of military fortifications and related buildings on the west side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The fort was built by the British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late 1700s and early 1800s, to defend the...
Tarragon Theatre
Located near near Casa Loma in Toronto, the Tarragon Theatre was founded by Bill and Jane Glassco in 1970. Bill was the Artistic Director from 1971 to 1982. In 1982, Urjo Kareda took over as Artistic Director and remained in that role until his...
Massey College
Massey College is a postgraduate residential college of the University of Toronto, established in 1963 with an endowment by the Massey Foundation. All of its members are elected by and as fellows of the college. The college is well-connected with...
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) (French: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Toronto's downtown Chinatown district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. With 45,000 square metres ...
Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music
The Royal Conservatory of Music, also known as The Royal Conservatory or RCM, provides music and arts education, evaluative standards, publishing and performance to people of all ages and stages across Canada and around the world in pursuit of its...
Davenport
Davenport is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. Its population in 2001 was 111,705.
The district includes parts of west-end Toronto, and includes the neighbourhoods...
Roncesvalles
Roncesvalles (pronounced /ˈrɒnsəsveɪlz/) is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada centred around Roncesvalles Avenue, a north-south street leading from the intersection of King and Queen Streets to the south, north to Dundas Street...
Mimico
The former Town of Mimico is a neighbourhood in the south-west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-east of the former Township (later City) of Etobicoke and was an independent municipality from 1911 to 1967, the oldest of the...
Weston, Toronto
Weston is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the northwest end of the city, within the former boundaries of the old City of York. The neighbourhood generally lies south of Highway 401, east of the Humber River, north of Eglinton Avenue,...
Trinity—Spadina
Trinity–Spadina is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
It generally encompasses the western...
Trump International Hotel and Tower
Trump International Hotel and Tower is the name associated with a series of high end condominium buildings developed either by Donald Trump or by parties who have licensed his name. These properties generally have both hotel condominium and...
Seneca College
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is a community college for applied arts and technology in Toronto, Ontario. Seneca College is a member of Polytechnics Canada.
The college was established during the formation of Ontario’s college system...
