Toronto
Just an hour's drive South from Georgina and you'll be in Toronto.
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CN TOWER
Address : 301 Front St. West
Te l: 416-868-6937 (Restaurant: 416-362-5411 )
Entry : Observation levels $15.99; concourse attractions and
Sky Pod additional cost
Opening Hours : Sun.-Thurs. 8 AM-10 PM, Fri.-Sat. 8 AM-11 PM;
hrs for attractions vary so call ahead. Peak visiting hours are 11-4.
Standing at a heigt of 1,815 ft and 5 inches the CN Tower is the tallest
freestanding structure in the world. There are several observation levels
with glass floors, a revolving restaurant and the world's highest public
observation gallery.
SKYDOME
Address : Tour entrance Front St. and John St.
Te l: 416-341-2770 for tours; 416-341-3663 for events and shows;
416-341-1000 for Blue Jays games.
Entry : Tour $10.50. One-hour guided walking tour (unless a daytime
event is scheduled) Prices for Events and Baseball games are as advertised
in the media
Opening Hours : Tours daily; call ahead for times.
The SKYDOME is the home of the Blue Jays baseball team and was the world's
first stadium with a fully retractable roof. One way to see the huge
52,000-seat stadium is to buy tickets for a Blue Jays game or an eventsuch
as monster truck races, family ice shows, rock concerts, opera .............
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE.
Address : Queen's Quay
Te l: 416-973-4600
Stretching from just west of York Street to Spadina Avenue, the Harbourfront
Centre is a culture-and-recreation center. There's the eight-story Queen's
Quay Terminal, with specialty shops and eateries; art exhibits at the
Power Plant; theater and readings at the York Quay Center; nautical
exhibits at The Pier museum, antiques at the Harborfront Antiques Market,
and seasonal events.
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Museums and Galleries
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM.
Address : 100 Queen's Park
Te l: 416-542-1492
Entry : $14; free Fri. after 4:30 and Sat.-Thurs. 1 hr before
closing.
Opening Hours : Mon.-Sat. 10-6, Fri. 10-9:30, Sun. 11-6.
ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE.
Address : 770 Don Mills Rd
Te l: 416-429-4100
Entry : $10; Omnimax films $8.50 each, Parking
$5
Opening Hours : Daily 10-5; extended evening hrs in summer
To get here, take the Yonge St. subway from downtown to Eglinton station
and No. 34 Eglinton East bus to Don Mills Rd. stop; then walk 1/2 block
south.
BATA SHOE MUSEUM
Address : 327 Bloor St. West
Te l: 416-979-7799
Entry : $6; Free 1st Tues. of month
Opening Hours : Tues.-Wed. and Fri.-Sat. 10-5, Thurs. 10-8, Sun.
noon-5
The BATA SHOE MUSEUM is a collection of 10,000 varieties of foot coverings.
It Highlights the changing fashions through the ages as well as the
craft and sociology of shoe making. Some items date back more than 4,000
years.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
Address : 317 Dundas St. West
Te l: 416-979-6648
Entry : Suggested donation of $5
Opening Hours : Tues. and Thurs.-Fri. 11-6, Wed. 11-8:30, weekends
10-5:30
The ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO (known as AGO) is among North America's top
10 art museums. It has the largest public collection of Henry Moore
sculpture in the world, major works by Canadian artists, and works by
Rembrandt, Hals, Van Dyck, Hogarth, Reynolds, Chardin, Renoir, Degas,
Rodin, Matisse, Picasso, de Kooning, Rothko and Oldenburg, amongst others.
Also visit the Anne Tannenbaum Gallery School on Sunday when
you can explore painting, printmaking, and sculpting. Additionally,
you could visit "The Grange" which is an adjoining
Georgian-style house built in 1817-18.
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Theatre
HART HOUSE THEATRE
Address : 7 Hart House Circle
Te l: 416 978-8668
(Main theater space of the University of Toronto, with amateur, student,
and professional productions)
MACMILLAN THEATRE
Address : Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto
Te l: 416-978-3744
TARRAGON THEATRE
Address : 30 Bridgman Ave
Te l: 416-531-1827
YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE
Address : 165 Front St. East
Te l: 416-862-2222
(Children's Entertainment)
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Dining
Shopping
EATON CENTRE
Address : 220 Yonge St
Te l: 416-598-2322
Opening Hours : Weekdays 10-9, Sat. 9:30-7, Sun. noon-6
The Eaton Centre is a 3-million-square-ft building extending along the
west side of Yonge Street, from Queen Street up to Dundas Street. For
the weary there are convenient subway stops at either end!
ST LAWRENCE MARKET
Address : 92 Front St. East
Te l: 416-392-7219
Opening Hours : Tues-Thurs 9am-7pm, Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 5am-5pm
Directions : Nearest Subway - Union.
The ST LAWRENCE MARKET is predominantly a food market in a vast building
constructed around the façade of the second city hall, which
was built in 1850. Stall holders sell an abundance of fresh fruit, vegetables,
meat, fish and dairy products as well as a variety of other food and
non-food products. The Farmers market starts early on Saturday morning,
so get there early!!
KENSINGTON MARKET
Address : Bounded by Dundas St., Spadina Ave., Baldwin St., and
Augusta Ave
Te l: No central phone
Opening Hours : Most stores open Mon-Sat; No market on Sunday
Directions : Nearest Subway - St. Patrick, then Dundas St. streetcar
west to Kensington
OPens around 5am. It's a cacophany of Italian, Caribbean, Portuguese
and many other accents as merchants spread out their wares -- squid
and crabs in pails, chickens, pigeons, bread, cheese, apples, pears,
peppers, ginger, and mangoes from the West Indies, salted fish from
Portuguese dories, lace, fabrics, and other colorful remnants.
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