#1 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Downtown Ajax (Neighborhood)
Ajax ON
~0.25 miles from Ajax city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Downtown Whitby (Neighborhood)
Whitby ON
~4.53 miles from Ajax city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Rouge Park
Toronto ON
~7.12 miles from Ajax city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Toronto Zoo
Toronto ON
~8.25 miles from Ajax city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Downtown Oshawa (Neighborhood)
Oshawa ON
~8.55 miles from Ajax city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Pacific Mall
Toronto ON
~14.38 miles from Ajax city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Kew Gardens
Toronto ON
~18.48 miles from Ajax city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Edward Gardens
Toronto ON
~18.70 miles from Ajax city center
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A former Estate garden featuring perennials and roses on the uplands and wildflowers, rhododendrons and an extensive rockery in the valley
Open dawn to dusk, every day, all year round.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Ontario Science Centre
Toronto ON
~19.71 miles from Ajax city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Withrow Park
Toronto ON
~20.15 miles from Ajax city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Toronto Centre for the Arts
Toronto ON
~20.44 miles from Ajax city center
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Riverdale Park
Toronto ON
~20.70 miles from Ajax city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
Toronto ON
~21.67 miles from Ajax city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Allan Gardens
Toronto ON
~21.76 miles from Ajax city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Ontario Place
Toronto
~21.79 miles from Ajax city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Ryerson University
Toronto ON
~22.10 miles from Ajax city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
St. Michael's Cathedral
Toronto ON
~22.13 miles from Ajax city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
St. Lawrence Market
Toronto ON
~22.20 miles from Ajax city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Massey Hall
Toronto ON
~22.25 miles from Ajax city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Gardiner Museum
Toronto ON
~22.32 miles from Ajax city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
Toronto ON
~22.32 miles from Ajax 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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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Toronto Eaton Centre
Toronto ON
~22.33 miles from Ajax city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto ON
~22.34 miles from Ajax city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Toronto City Hall
Toronto ON
~22.45 miles from Ajax city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Toronto ON
~22.46 miles from Ajax city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Hockey Hall of Fame
Toronto ON
~22.48 miles from Ajax city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Queen's Park
Toronto ON
~22.48 miles from Ajax city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Nathans Philips Square
Toronto ON
~22.51 miles from Ajax city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
University of Toronto
Toronto ON
~22.56 miles from Ajax city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Ajax
Casa Loma
Toronto ON
~22.59 miles from Ajax 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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