In the 1960S, the Royal Alexandra Theatre was about to be flattened by modernizing bulldozers when a flamboyant Toronto retail entrepreneur by the name of “Honest Ed” Mirvish, the king of the bargain store, came to the rescue.
Opened in 1989, the Rogers Centre was the first sports stadium in the world to have a fully rectractable roof. In good weather, the stadium is open to the elements, but in poor conditions the roof moves into position, protecting players and crowd alike. (daha fazla…)
No less than 553 m (1,815 ft) high, the CN Tower is the tallest building in the world. In the 1970s, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) decided to build a new transmission mast in partnership with Canadian National (CN), the railroad conglomerate. The CN Tower was not originally designed as the world’s tallest spire, but it so overwhelmed the city’s visitors that it soon became one of Canada’s prime tourist attractions. The tower houses the largest revolving restaurant in the world, which rotates fully every 72 minutes. (daha fazla…)
Toronto’s Harbourfront has had a varied history. Lake Ontario once lapped against Front Street, but the Victorians reclaimed 3 km (1.5 miles) of land to accommodate their railroad yards and warehouses. Ontario’s exports and imports were funneled through this industrial strip until the 1960s, when trade declined. In the 1980s the harbourfront had a new lease on life, when planners orchestrated the redevelopment of what has now become 10 sq km (4 sq miles) of reclaimed land. It now boasts grassy parks, walkways, smart apartments, many of the city’s best hotels, and a cluster of tourist sights in and around the Harbourfront Centre. (daha fazla…)
Completed in 1964, Toronto’s City Hall was designed by the award-winning Finnish architect Viljo Revell. At the official opening, the Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced, “It is an edifice as modern as tomorrow,” but for many cityfolk tomorrow had come too soon and there were howls of protests from several quarters. (daha fazla…)
Formed in 1920, the Group of Seven revolutionized Canadian art. Mostly commercial artists working in an Ontario art firm, this small band of painters was inspired by a colleague, Tom Thomson. An avid outdoorsman, Thomson started Tom Thomson, (1877–1917) making trips in 1912 into the wilderness of northern Ontario to produce dozens of brightly colored, impressionistic sketches. (daha fazla…)
The sheer size of Ontario is daunting. It is Canada’s secondlargest province, covering over one million square miles and stretching all the way from the Great Lakes on the United States border to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. Northern Ontario is relatively inaccessible, but this wild and stunningly beautiful region of turbulent rivers, deep forests, and Arctic tundra can be reached by air, and by the occasional scenic road and railroad. (daha fazla…)
Toronto is a clean, secure, multi-ethnic city with a magnificent network of parks, recreational, and cultural and educational facilities. Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third biggest English-speaking theatre region in the world, behind London and New York. (daha fazla…)
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