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Algonquin Provincial Park

Algonquin Provincial Park is the first provincial park in Canada, established in 1893. Over 2400 lakes and 1200 kilometres of streams and rivers are located within the park, formed by the retreat of the glaciers during the last ice age. The act to establish Algonquin Provincial Park was drawn up in 1892 by a five-member […]

Blimey Summers, Scorching Canuks

As a fellow Canadian, I completely understand the hardships of weather patterns in Toronto Canada. In 2011 it’s proving to be an especially scorching summer, something that can’t be said about London England. In Toronto the swings of seasons are clear, hot summers, wet autumns, freezing winters and warm springs. Though ask any Canadian and […]

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C’mon Toronto: why you should visit Canada’s largest city

C’mon Toronto, have a good time in this buzzing city on the shores of Lake Ontario, one of the largest fresh body of water in the world that resembles an ocean more than a lake. Over 40% of the people of Toronto are not native Canadians. Toronto has the third largest percentage of immigrants in the […]

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Casa Loma – North America’s only castle

North America’s only castle, Casa Loma, is a Gothic Revival style house and gardens in midtown Toronto, Canada, that is now a museum and landmark. Constructed over a three-year period from 1911–1914, and designed by the architect E. J. Lennox, Casa Loma took more than 300 men and approximately $3.5 million to complete. At 98 […]

Eaton Centre

The Eaton Centre is Toronto‘s top tourist attraction with more than one million visitors per week. A multi-levelled, vaulted glass-ceiling shopping mall and office complex in downtown Toronto, Canada. Modelled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, and named after the now-defunct Eaton’s department store chain that once anchored it. Considered revolutionary at […]

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Kensington Market

A visit to Kensington Market is like a sensory trip around the world. During the 1920s, it was known as the Jewish Market. Today, you can sense the city’s rich, multicultural mix, obvious in the shops packed with goods from Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, South America and Asia. It’s also a treasure trove […]

Niagara Falls • Canada

The most powerful waterfall in North America, on the Niagara River between the international borders of Canada and the U.S., composed of two sections: Horseshoe Falls, which lies on the Canadian side of the border, and American Falls on the American side. Formed when glaciers receded at the end of the last ice age, and […]

Niagara-on-the-Lake

A Canadian town located in Southern Ontario where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario, and where many first got their first taste of freedom. The original site was a Neutral Nation village known as Onghiara, many of the first inhabitants were Loyalist refugees who fled the United States during and immediately after the American Revolution wanting […]

Ottawa • Canada

The capital of Canada and a municipality within the province of Ontario, located in the Ottawa Valley on the southern banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, connected by several bridges to its Quebec neighbour, the city of Gatineau on the northern shores of […]