Tag: “Toronto”

10 photos found.

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   Victorian storefronts along Toronto's West Queen West

   Most of these three-storey buildings along Queen Street West in Toronto function as they have since they were built in the late 19th century: with a store on the main floor and apartments or, occasionally, small offices on the second and third floors.

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   gates to Trinity-Bellwoods Park

   Where Trinity-Bellwoods Park is today, near one end of Toronto's West Queen West neighbourhood, was the original site of Trinity College. Today Trinity College is part of the University of Toronto to the northeast, but its original gates still stand along Queen Street.

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   West Queen West clothing boutiques

   Toronto's West Queen West -- a stretch of Queen Street from about Bathurst Street west to Dufferin -- is home to many clothing boutiques, many featuring Canadian designers.

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   Centre Island, one very hot day in July

   Centre Island Beach, on Lake Ontario, on the Toronto Islands, is a short ferry ride and walk from Toronto's Harbourfront and -- unlike the beach at Hanlan's Point, where bathers have fought for the right to leave their swimsuits at home -- is an ideal family beach, frequented mostly by Toronto families.

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   the gates of Fort York

   The gates of Fort York, in what is now Toronto. Fort York was largely destroyed in the War of 1812 and was immediately rebuilt.

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   Fort York, as rebuilt after the War of 1812

   The Fort York officers' quarters (1826) and, in the distance, one of two 1813 blockhouses.

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   The Gladstone Hotel

   Toronto's Gladstone Hotel was built in 1889 and has been a functioning hotel ever since. Today the renovated hotel offered artist-designed rooms and a full floor of exhibition space, as well as hosting renowned karaoke nights and welcoming former residents at the bar.

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   temperature rising

   1970s and '80s skyscrapers in Toronto's financial district

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   Let's go to the movies

   The view from Vivid, the bar in the Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto

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    Hazelton Hotel

    Author Marie Wilson has just quaffed a perfect chocolate martini in the Hazelton Hotel in the upscale Yorkville district of midtown Toronto. The hotel bar is stylish, spacious and dripping with celebrities.