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  • The Paper Place
    I have always been fascinated by gift wrapping, so when I first visited The Paper Place, I was totally amazed. It is an unimaginable variety of colorful papers and tissues. Some of the papers are even hand made. They also have paper [...]
    D: 9.2mi00
  • Toronto Music Garden
    What could be better than walking on the beautiful waterfront of Toronto? The answer is doing that along Toronto Music Garden. I've heard somewhere that that the only problem with life is that there is not background music. Well, [...]
    D: 10.2mi00
  • Fort York
    Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe saw the newborn USA as a threat, so he established the base of Fort York in 1793 to defend Toronto (known as 'little muddy York' at that time). Sacked in 1812 it was rebuilt a year later and used by the [...]
    D: 9.6mi00
  • St. Lawrence Market
    One of the best places to spend an afternoon in Toronto is St. Lawrence Market. It is a real market of course mainly with farmers selling their home-made products and artists offering their art. The market is always busy, full of locals and [...]
    D: 10.7mi20
  • The Little Dollhouse Company
    If you are or have ever been a little girl, Little Dollhouse Company is your childhod dream coming true. This store hasn't only got dollhouses, but all the possible accessories to a dollhouse. There are a lot of houses of different [...]
    D: 9.9mi01
  • Hockey Hall of Fame
    If you ever liked ice hockey than Hockey Hall of Fame will be your place.  Founded in 1943 the Hall is dedicated to honor the great events, teams and personalities of this wonderful sport. Also a museum, it hosts exhibitions about [...]
    D: 10.9mi01
  • Chinatown
    The opening of the laundrette by Sam Chin in 1878 was the first step in the establishment of Toronto's Chinatown. Thirty years later there were more than a thousand Chinese poeple living in the city. Nowadays Toronto's Chinatown is [...]
    D: 9.7mi00
  • Accessity
    The greatest place in all Toronto to buy all accessories to your outfit is Accessity. This great place offers the products of a lot of designers from Canada from Kelly Lehman to Merx and others. The store has got private collections as well [...]
    D: 9.8mi00
  • Alice Fazooli's Crabshack
    The Butternut squash ravioli is a must-try if you are in Alice Fazooli's Crabshack. My friend tried some meatballs which were also very good. The place is a nice Innovative-Italian restaurant with many 'experimental' meals on [...]
    D: 11.1mi00
  • CN Tower
    The world's highest freestanding tower is Toronto's CN Tower. From the top of the building you can see the Niagara Falls (100 km), if the weather is clear.  It is extremely high. It has got an observation platform where the [...]
    D: 10.4mi01
  • Distillery District in Toronto
    Even the name sounds wonderful... Destillery District. The area is a group of period buildings from the late 19th century, built in Victorian style, of red brick, and houses a number of great galleries, caffes, restaurants and even a small [...]
    D: 11.7mi01
  • Bata Shoe Museum
    If you want to see a really special place, you have to come to Bata Shoes Museum. The museum displays the shoes ollection of the Bata family with more that 10.000 (pair of) items. The main exhibition os about the hitory of footwear from the [...]
    D: 9.4mi00
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
    Frank Gehry, a Toronto born architect lead the renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario from 2007. The building is like a totally new one, with interesting architectural solutions. I really like the wood-made staircase that goes to the [...]
    D: 10mi00
  • Black Creek Pioneer Village
    I think Black Creek Pioreer Village is one of the greatest attractions of Toronto. The original village was founded 1816 by a newlywed settler couple. Now it has got more than 30 builgings and it's a living museum of the 19th century [...]
    D: 6.7mi20
  • Air Canada Center
    Located in the  Lakeshore Boulevard area, the Air Canada Center is the home of Toronto's two beloved sports teams, the hockey team - Toronto Maple Leafs and the basketball team, the Toronto Raptors. The Center  is also used as [...]
    D: 10.9mi20
  • The nicest beach in Toronto
    Toronto's main beach in 'The Beaches' is pretty good, and what you would expect of a public beach. However I believe that Bluffer's Beach is far superior in beauty, privacy, and adventurous atmosphere. [...]
    D: 339.4mi10

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Toronto History

Toronto  means ‘Meeting Place’ in the language of the Huron people. It is noted in the history that it was Teiaiagon, where the primary settlement took place in the whole Toronto. Teiaiagon was inhabited firstly by Seneca Indians and then Mississauga Indians also settled on the banks of Humber River which is located in Canada. Toronto Passage Etienne Brule, being a French explorer was the first European who stood on the coast of Lake Ontario. The area where Etienne stood at that point of time is now known as Toronto. He started form the west and north of Canada and voyaged till the Gulf of Mexico with the water routes, but it [...]
 
 
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  • $118Multiple Airlines flight Multiple Airlines 
    FromToDepartureTime
    Halifax, NS (YHZ)Toronto, ON (YYZ)05/21/202411:40 am
    Toronto, ON (YYZ)Halifax, NS (YHZ)05/29/202407:25 am
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  • $126F8 flight F8 
    FromToDepartureTime
    Calgary, AB (YYC)Toronto, ON (YYZ)04/12/202411:50 pm
    Toronto, ON (YYZ)Calgary, AB (YYC)04/18/202406:30 am
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  • $174Multiple Airlines flight Multiple Airlines 
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    Vancouver, BC (YVR)Toronto, ON (YYZ)06/13/202412:00 pm
    Toronto, ON (YYZ)Vancouver, BC (YVR)06/17/202408:35 pm
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