#1 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Gardiner Museum
Toronto ON
~0.38 miles from Toronto city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto ON
~0.40 miles from Toronto city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
University of Toronto
Toronto ON
~0.64 miles from Toronto city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Queen's Park
Toronto ON
~0.68 miles from Toronto city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Bata Shoe Museum
Toronto ON
~0.70 miles from Toronto city center
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Discover the treasures of North America's charming and surprising shoe museum. Hundreds of shoes (from a collection numbering over 10,000) are on exhibit in architect Raymond Moriyama's award-winning four-story structure.
The Museum celebrates the style and function of footwear in four impressive galleries. Footwear on display ranges from Chinese bound foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals to chestnut-crushing clogs and glamorous platforms. Over 4,500 years of history and a collection of 20th-century celebrity shoes are reflected in the semi-permanent exhibition, All About Shoes. Three other galleries feature changing exhibitions, so there's always something new to see.
The museum welcomes guided group tours and school visits as well as individual visitors.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Allan Gardens
Toronto ON
~0.85 miles from Toronto city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Ryerson University
Toronto ON
~0.93 miles from Toronto city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Toronto Eaton Centre
Toronto ON
~1.14 miles from Toronto city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Toronto City Hall
Toronto ON
~1.15 miles from Toronto city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
St. Michael's Cathedral
Toronto ON
~1.18 miles from Toronto city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Massey Hall
Toronto ON
~1.19 miles from Toronto city center
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto ON
~1.22 miles from Toronto city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Nathans Philips Square
Toronto ON
~1.23 miles from Toronto city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Ontario College of Art and Design
Toronto ON
~1.24 miles from Toronto city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Casa Loma
Toronto ON
~1.24 miles from Toronto city center
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Visit Canada's Majestic Castle, Casa Loma and step back in time to a period of European elegance and splendour. The former home of Canadian financier Sir Henry Pellatt, Canada's foremost castle is complete with decorated suites, secret passages, an 800-foot tunnel, towers, stables, and beautiful 5-acre estate gardens (open May through October). A self-guided digital audio tour in 8 languages (English, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin and Korean) is available.
Narrated by Colin Mochrie (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Whose Line is it Anyway), this Gemini Award nominated 22-minute docudrama is styled as a 1939 newsreel tracing the arc of Sir Henry Pellatt's life. From his roots as an enterprising stockbroker to his ascent to the heights of the Canadian establishment, Pellatt Newsreel is a story of unbridled optimism and entrepreneurial high stakes. But Pellatt Newsreel also tells the story of hubris and tragedy - how Sir Henry's dreams were undone, first by the Ontario government and then by his own financial miscalculations, which saw him driven out of his glorious "castle on the hill", his home and monument. The film was produced by Lush Art & Entertainment and directed by Barbra Cooper. Presented daily in the beautifully restored Billiard/ Smoking Room. Screenings each half hour during operating hours. Pellatt film is included in ticket price.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
Toronto ON
~1.25 miles from Toronto city center
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The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. The pair were originally built as the centrepiece of Marcus Loew's theatre chain in 1913. The building was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, who also built The Canon Theatre. The ornate lower theatre, then named Loew's Yonge Street Theatre, was home to plays and vaudeville productions that attracted some of the world's top talent. The upper level Winter Garden, which is decorated to resemble a forest, also housed vaudeville productions.
In 1928, the decline of vaudeville forced the Winter Garden to close, and it remained shuttered for several decades. Left inside it was a large collection of vaudeville props and scenery, now the world's largest surviving collection. The lower theatre was eventually transformed into a cinema. Over time the building gradually deteriorated, as did the theatre. In 1969, Loews sold the Elgin to Famous Players. By the 1970s, the Elgin was showing mainly B movies and soft core pornography. In 1981 the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought the structure from Famous Players and set about restoring the two theatres.
Since then, the theatres have been at the heart of Toronto's thriving theatre scene, home to major productions and musicals with Cats being the first performance at the Elgin. The building was closed in 1987 to be fully restored and then reopened in 1989.
In 1991, Dr. David Griesinger and Steve Barbar of Lexicon, Inc., at the request of acousticians Neil Muncy and Robert Tanner, installed the first production LARES system in the Elgin Theatre. LARES is an electroacoustic enhancement system that augments architectural acoustics. This initial LARES system used two microphones placed at the balcony's front edge to pick up sound from the stage. The microphone signals were digitized and processed in two mainframe computers, and the resulting signals were sent to 56 loudspeakers in the main ceiling and 60 under the balcony, for the purpose of providing additional intelligibility and ambience.
The Elgin Theatre was home to The Who's Tommy musical in the mid-1990s. It also housed the world premiere of Napoleon (musical) in 1994. The musical transfered to the West End in 2000.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Grange Park
Toronto ON
~1.25 miles from Toronto city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Four Seasons Centre
Toronto ON
~1.33 miles from Toronto city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Ontario Place
Toronto
~1.46 miles from Toronto city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Riverdale Park
Toronto ON
~1.48 miles from Toronto city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Downtown Toronto (Neighborhood)
Toronto ON
~1.53 miles from Toronto city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Royal Alexandra Theatre
Toronto ON
~1.60 miles from Toronto city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Princess of Wales Theatre
Toronto ON
~1.63 miles from Toronto city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Roy Thomson Hall
Toronto ON
~1.66 miles from Toronto city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Toronto ON
~1.69 miles from Toronto city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Hockey Hall of Fame
Toronto ON
~1.69 miles from Toronto city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
St. Lawrence Market
Toronto ON
~1.71 miles from Toronto city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Christie Pits Park
Toronto ON
~1.71 miles from Toronto city center
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Christie Pits Park, originally Willowvale Park, is a Toronto public recreational area located at 750 Bloor Street West at Christie Street,[1] just west from the TTC Christie subway station. The surrounding area has a significant Korean and Latin American community.
The park has an area of 21.9 acres (8.9 ha), about half of which is grassed picnic areas, the rest being various sports fields. Sports facilities on the site include three baseball diamonds (one full-sized and fenced), basketball courts, a soccer/rugby/football field, ice rink, splash pad and pool. The sides of the pits are highly sloped, and are used in winter for tobogganing and related activities. Garrison Creek runs under "the pits", and can be clearly seen in winter. It is home to the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team, which plays in the Intercounty Baseball League.
The park was named after the Christie Sand Pits which were on the location until the early 1900s. The sand pits had been named after Christie Street, which was named after William Mellis Christie, co-founder of the Christie & Brown Cookie Company, now known simply as Mr. Christie.
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
CN Tower
Toronto ON
~1.83 miles from Toronto city center
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The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world. On September 12, 2007, after holding the record for 31 years, the CN Tower was surpassed in height by the still-under-construction Burj Dubai. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Americas, the signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.
CN originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets, prior to the company's privatization in 1995 it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Since local residents wished to retain the name CN Tower, the abbreviation is now said to expand to Canada's National Tower rather than the original Canadian National Tower; however, neither of these names are commonly used.
In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It also belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Toronto
Air Canada Centre - Toronto Raptors - Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto ON
~1.85 miles from Toronto city center
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Air Canada Centre has earned its place of distinction along Toronto's skyline, and in the hearts of sports and entertainment fans from all over the world.
Located in the heart of the city, Air Canada Centre is close to the CN Tower, the theatre district, restaurants, 15 major hotels, shopping, and two main transportation arteries: the Gardiner Expressway and Union Station that services the Toronto Transit Commission and GO Transit system. The facility has revitalized the area known as the Railway Lands E
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