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Toronto: Sights, Culture, Shopping

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Neighbourhoods:

Toronto has a multitude of ethnic neighbourhoods, including Greektown (where the action keeps going until way after midnight), Little Italy, Corso Italia, 3 Chinatowns, Korea Town, Little Poland, Little India, Portugal Village. Other ethnic communities also congregate in certain parts of town and you can explore Jewish, Russian, Ukrainian, Somalian and many other restaurants and stores. There you can browse for ethnic food, fashion and art from far away places and check out delicacies from the entire world in Toronto’s more than 7000 restaurants.

In addition to the ethnic flavour that Toronto so plentifully offers, there are a variety of other unique neighbourhoods. Downtown has several interesting areas to visit:

- the Financial District with all its skyscrapers. It also houses the “underground city” – 11 km (6 miles) of interconnecting passageways under the streets that feature more than 1,200 retail stores and services.

- the Downtown Entertainment District – bars and dance clubs galore

- Queen Street West – a hip and eclectic shopping area

- the Gay Village: this is where Toronto’s large gay and lesbian community congregates. Here you can find bars, shops, restaurants and open-air patios

- the Fashion District with a myriad of fashion outlet stores and loft apartments that were converted from 19th century factories

- Harbourfront with its boat cruises and the ferry terminal, restaurants and art, theatre and music venues

- Rosedale and Forest Hill: two stately very upscale neighbourhoods in a park-like setting

- Cabbagetown: a former working class area, it now houses beautiful renovated Victorian homes

- the Distillery District: North America’s best preserved collection of Victorian industrial architecture, formerly the Gooderham & Worts Distillery founded in 1832. It now houses galleries, artist studios and workshops, boutiques, retail stores, restaurants, bars and cafés

- The Beaches, one of my favourite areas, with its shops, parks, sports facilities, bike trails and beach volleyball facilities are Toronto’s version of California on the waterfront.

Check out more information on Toronto’s neighbourhoods here.

Main Sights and Architecture

Being a relatively young city, Toronto has a rather eclectic mix of architecture which includes

- the CN Tower, at 553 m the world’s highest free-standing structure

- the Skydome, a modern multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof

- the shiny downtown skyscrapers

- Historic Fort York, the site of the Battle of York during the War 1812 and the birthplace of modern Toronto

- Old City Hall, built in the Richardson Romanesque style

- the campus of the University of Toronto, Canada’s largest university

- Casa Loma, built in the 1920s as a dream castle by Sir Henry Pellat, a wealthy famous Toronto industrialist

- Queens Park, the provincial government buildings, also built in Romanesque style

Culture: Theatre, Music, Museums

Toronto is the 3rd largest theatre centre in the world. Here you can enjoy Broadway-style musicals, homegrown productions, traveling road shows and classical concerts. Some of the great theatre and music venues include the Royal Alexandra Theatre, the Princess of Wales Theatre, the Elgin/Winter Garden Theatre, the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Royal Thomson Hall and many others.

 

Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre Reviews

Toronto
189 Yonge St
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 (8 Reviews)

Review by Dishan W.
This review is solely based on previous year’s tiff experience, I’ve been lucky enough to attend gala events in the last 3 years and each time the Elgin has…
Rating: 4

Review by Kevin D.
THE COOLEST LIVE THEATRE VENUE IN TORONTO.

The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre is the only still operating double-decker theatre complex in the world….
Rating: 5

Review by Mark W.
I’ve been to both of these theatres and they are top notch. Beautiful renovation, excellent acoustics, and good staff.
Rating: 5

What are some fun things for a group of 16 year old girls to do in downtown Toronto, ON other than shopping?

by Logan Steele · 9 Comments 

some fun
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Toronto Dress Shopping!?

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I need a prom dress! Where are the best shops in Toronto to buy clothes? Cost does not matter that much. I only want a nice dress:) Any help welcome
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Shopping For Labels

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Shopping between two Canadian cities, Vancouver vs. Toronto. Crybaby does her venting
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Canadian Online Shopping Tax Breaks?

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A survey of online shopping in Germany found that about 75% of Internet users are already familiar with purchasing items in online stores. The people of Canada are very active, but are often too busy to hop the stores and buy things that need regularly. Therefore, they have to take a strong interest in buying them in online stores. In fact, considering the popularity of online shopping most of the small and large construction companies have their websites to reach to the customers. You see online shopping as a customer base with huge potential.

Reasons for preferring online shopping

In Canada, buyers are often the traditional way of shopping to avoid, they are more advantages of online shopping. There are some important reasons behind it. First, the scale of research is very high thanks to the Internet. With one click, you get a long list of websites and directories that will feature articles look for them. Many of these companies are in major Canadian cities including Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary. They are therefore able to ship their products anywhere in Canada at a reduced cost for transportation. Also, much of the burden of online stores in the U.S. for their products, which are cheaper than what they cost in Canadian dollars.

This is probably the most important benefit that customers get online stores. You can shop for almost all of these stores. They sell clothing, gifts, food, medicines, shoes and everything you can think of. They are free to choose the sizes, shapes and colors of the products where appropriate. How do you pay when shopping online? Usually when you buy something from an online shop and you do not have the option of paying the money directly, and you can send a check because you pay in advance to confirm the order. Some shops accept credit cards, but most of them will ask you to go for credit cards.

There are websites and what you pay with e-banking of Pay Pal or by e-gold. If you are not with the goods delivered are not satisfied, you are free to get a refund. But there are some things you should check before providing the site with your credit card information.
The shipment of products in different parts of Canada differ from each other, and it also depends on the size, number and weight of the shipment.

Make sure the online shop ships their products in your city, because it’s really disturbing to know, they have not completed after your purchase. Sometimes you have taxes that are not shown in the price of the product on the website pay included.

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There are many shops that significant discounts on their products all year round offer. Are you aware that a lot of saving money by shopping online from these online stores in Germany. There are some help sites that will contain a list of codes, vouchers, coupons running free with all the information on business promotion. You will also find Canadian Gift Vouchers are and use them to get discounts. In some Canadian stores to shop online, you can win prizes such as T-shirts, caps and bags.

Bestbuy Online Shopping Faq

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Great Fashion Sale – Trend Buys Yorkdale Shopping Centre Pt 2

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As seen on CityLine Fashion Fridays on January 16 2009 with Lynn Spence of Yorkdale Shopping Mall…sale items from Mendocino at Yorkdale, Bananna Republic at Yorkdale, Smart Set at Yorkdale, H&M at Yorkdale, Melanie Lynn at Yorkdale
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Burke listening, but not shopping Kaberle at draft

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Leaders slam N. Korea, Iran
TORONTO, Ontario – Briefly putting aside deep economic differences, top world leaders Saturday condemned North Korea for the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, set a five-year exit timeline for Afghanistan and said the standoff in Gaza was “not sustainable and must be changed.”
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Read more on The Durango Herald

Burke listening, but not shopping Kaberle at draft
Brian Burke was quite busy at the NHL draft on Friday, even though the Toronto Maple Leafs’ GM doesn’t have a pick until the third round.
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Unknown shopping Mall Toronto 1974

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In this episode of The Collaborators, a robbery has taken place at a bank (CIBC) and a hostage situation has taken place. The robbers take the hostages thru the mall. They walk by St. Clair Paint, Eaton’s, Golden Dolphin and Radio Shack
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Does anyone know of charter shopping bus trips that leave from toronto to nyc or pennsylvania?

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Does anyone know how to get to promenade shopping mall in Toronto, using public transit?

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Don Mills. . . Don Mills and Sheppard Ave. is
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Where is shopping better? Oakville or Toronto?

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ok so basically my friend took me shopping today and I can not decide whether to Oakville nice [stuff and then closer to T dot] or Toronto, downtown on the street going Queen? let me know what you think:)
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