Canada Tourist Attractions

CN Tower

The CN Tower is a 553.3 m-high concrete communications and observation tower located in Downtown Toronto Ontario Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands it was completed in 1976. Its name CN originally referred to Canadian National the railway company that built the tower. Following the railways decision to divest non-core freight railway assets prior to the companys privatization in 1995 it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. The CN Tower held the record for the worlds tallest free-standing structure for 32 years until 2007 when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa and was the worlds tallest tower until 2009 when it was surpassed by the Canton Tower. It is now the ninth tallest free-standing structure in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure on land in the Western Hemisphere. In 1995 the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It also belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers. It is a signature icon of Torontos skyline and attracts more than two million international visitors annually.

Casa Loma

Casa Loma is a Gothic Revival style mansion and garden in midtown Toronto Ontario Canada that is now a historic house museum and landmark. It was constructed from 1911 to 1914 as a residence for financier Sir Henry Pellatt. The architect was E. J. Lennox who designed several other city landmarks. Casa Loma sits at an elevation of 140 metres above sea level. Due to its unique architectural character in Toronto Casa Loma has been a popular filming location for movies and television. It is also a popular venue for wedding ceremonies and Casa Loma can be rented in the evenings after the museum closes to the public.

Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of art world culture and natural history in Toronto Ontario Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year making the ROM the most-visited museum in Canada. The museum is north of Queens Park in the University of Toronto district with its main entrance on Bloor Street West. Museum subway station is named after the ROM and since a 2008 renovation is decorated to resemble the institutions collection. Established on 16 April 1912 and opened on 19 March 1914 the museum has maintained close relations with the University of Toronto throughout its history often sharing expertise and resources. The museum was under the direct control and management of the University of Toronto until 1968 when it became an independent Crown agency of the Government of Ontario. Today the museum is Canadas largest field-research institution with research and conservation activities around the world. With more than 6000000 items and 40 galleries the museums diverse collections of world culture and natural history contribute to its international reputation.

Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal

Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

Stanley Park

Gastown

Gastown Steam Clock

Gastown Steam Clock

Granville Island

Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. It is located across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. The peninsula was once an industrial manufacturing area but today it is a hotspot for Vancouver tourism and entertainment. The area was named after Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville. The island is home to 275 businesses and facilities that employ more than 2500 people and generates more than 215-million in economic activity each year. Granville Island provides amenities such as a large public market an extensive marina a hotel Arts Umbrella False Creek Community Centre various performing arts theatres including Vancouvers only professional improvisational theatre company Vancouver Theatresports League the Arts Club Theatre Company and Carousel Theatre fine arts galleries and variety of shopping areas. The Granville Island Public Market features a farmers market day vendors and artists offering local Vancouver goods.

Art Gallery of Ontario

The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto Ontario Canada. The museum is located in the Grange Park neighborhood of downtown Toronto on Dundas Street West between McCaul and Beverley streets just east of Chinatown.

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls Ontario is a Canadian city with famous waterfalls of the same name linked with the U.S. by the Rainbow Bridge. Its site on the Niagara Rivers western shore overlooks the Horseshoe Falls the cascades most expansive section. Elevators take visitors to a lower wetter vantage point behind the falls. A cliffside park features a promenade alongside 520-ft.-high Skylon Tower with an observation deck.

Toronto Zoo

The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in Toronto Ontario Canada. Encompassing 287 hectares the Toronto Zoo is the largest zoo in Canada. It is divided into seven zoogeographic regions Indo-Malaya Africa Americas Tundra Trek Australasia Eurasia and the Canadian Domain.

Nathan Phillips Square

Nathan Phillips Square is an urban plaza in Toronto Ontario Canada. It forms the forecourt to Toronto City Hall or New City Hall at the intersection of Queen Street West and Bay Street and is named for Nathan Phillips mayor of Toronto from 1955 to 1962.

High Park

High Park is a municipal park in Toronto Ontario Canada. High Park is a mixed recreational and natural park with sporting facilities cultural facilities educational facilities gardens playgrounds and a zoo. One-third of the park remains in a natural state with a rare oak savannah ecology.

Toronto Islands

The Toronto Islands are a chain of 15 small islands in Lake Ontario south of mainland Toronto Ontario Canada. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the citys downtown area provide shelter for Toronto Harbour and separate Toronto from the rest of Lake Ontario. The islands are home to the Toronto Island Park the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport several private yacht clubs a public marina Centreville Amusement Park a year-round residential neighborhood and several public beaches. The island community is the largest urban car-free community in North America. Public ferries operate year-round from Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and privately operated water taxis operate from May to September. A pedestrian tunnel connects the mainland to the airport.

Little Italy

Little Italy sometimes referred to as College Street West is a district in Toronto Ontario Canada. It is known for its Italian Canadian restaurants and businesses. There is also a significant Latin-Canadian and Portuguese-Canadian community in the area. The district is centered on a restaurantbarshopping strip along College Street centered on College Street imprecisely between Harbord Street and Dundas Street and spreading out east and west between Bathurst Street and Ossington Avenue.

Textile Museum of Canada

The Textile Museum of Canada located in Toronto Ontario Canada is a museum dedicated to the collection exhibition and documentation of textiles. The Textile Museum of Canada has a permanent collection of more than 13000 textiles from around the world. Covering 2000 years of textile history the collection includes fabrics ceremonial cloths garments carpets quilts and related artifacts. The Textile Museum of Canada was founded as the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers. Located above an ice cream shop in Mirvish Village the museums collection was initially based on textiles collected during business trips.

Smokey Hollow Falls

This waterfall is also known as Great Falls and Grindstone Falls. At 10 meters tall this isnt the areas biggest waterfall but this short and fast-flowing waterfall is surrounded by a great section of the Bruce Trail.

Parliament Hill

Parliament Hill colloquially known as The Hill is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa Ontario Canada. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings and their architectural elements of national symbolic importance is the home of the Parliament of Canada. Parliament Hill attracts approximately three million visitors each year. Law enforcement on Parliament Hill and in the parliamentary precinct is the responsibility of the Parliamentary Protective Service.

Rideau Canal

The Rideau Canal also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway connects Canadas capital city of Ottawa Ontario to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston. It is 202 kilometers long. The name Rideau French for curtain is derived from the curtain-like appearance of the Rideau Rivers twin waterfalls where they join the Ottawa River. The canal system uses sections of two rivers the Rideau and the Cataraqui as well as several lakes. Parks Canada operates the Rideau Canal.

Canadian War Museum

The Canadian War Museum is a national museum on the countrys military history in Ottawa Ontario Canada. The museum serves as both an educational facility on Canadian military history in addition to serving as a place of remembrance.

National Gallery of Canada

The National Gallery of Canada located in the capital city of Ottawa Ontario is Canadas national art museum. The museums building takes up 46621 square meters with 12400 square meters of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the largest art museums in North America by exhibition space.

Peace Tower

The Peace Tower also known as the Tower of Victory and Peace is a focal bell and clock tower sitting on the central axis of the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa Ontario. The present incarnation replaced the 55-meter Victoria Tower after the latter burned down in 1916 along with most of the Centre Block only the Library of Parliament survived. It serves as a Canadian icon and had been featured prominently on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill directly adjacent to the queens visage until the change to the polymer.

Canadian Museum of Nature

The Canadian Museum of Nature is a national natural history museum based in Canadas National Capital Region. The museums exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building a 18910 square metres structure in Ottawa Ontario.

National War Memorial

The National War Memorial titled The Response is a tall granite memorial arch with accreted bronze sculptures in Ottawa Ontario Canada designed by Vernon March and first dedicated by King George VI in 1939. Originally built to commemorate the Canadians who died in the First World War it was in 1982 rededicated to also include those killed in the Second World War and Korean War and again in 2014 to add the dead from the Second Boer War and War in Afghanistan as well as all Canadians killed in all conflicts past and future. It now serves as the pre-eminent war memorial of 76 cenotaphs in Canada. In 2000 the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was added in front of the memorial and symbolizes the sacrifices made by all Canadians who have died or may yet die for their country.

Dows Lake Pavilion

Dows Lake in Ottawa Ontario Canada is a small man-made lake on the Rideau Canal situated two kilometers north of Hogs Back Falls in the middle of Ottawa. It is at the south end of Preston Street just south of Carling Avenue and just to the west of Bronson Avenue. At the south end of the lake is Carleton University and to the west is the Dominion Arboretum at the edge of the Central Experimental Farm. At the north end of the lake a pavilion is situated over the water with three restaurants overlooking the water. They are Umbrella Bar Lago and Mexis. Other services of the pavilion include canoe kayak and paddle boat rentals boat mooring and an indoor change area for skating. It is open year-round.