Toronto Tourist

Welcome to Toronto Tourist! This web site is here to provide you with useful information for planning your visit to Toronto Canada. In addition to local service information we have the most comprehensive Toronto Travel Guide to assist you in making your plans for visiting Canada's most cosmopolitan and largest city.

Inside the travel guide you will find detailed information on the top Toronto Attractions like the CN Tower, Toronto Zoo and Ontario Place. Explore some of the best museums in the country of the likes of The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Casa Loma. Take in one of the world renowned Toronto Festivals that draws millions of visitors every year, come see the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Caribana or the family favorite Luminato. Perhaps just come and spend some un structured leisure time exploring one of the many unique Toronto Neighbourhoods or other Toronto Points of Interest.

Are you a fan of professional sporting events? There are many Toronto Sports team to please fans of almost any game. Head over to Rogers Centre and watch the Blue Jays play major league baseball, our Toronto Raptors NBA franchise will provide heart pounding non stop game play, the CFL Argonauts will please any foot ball fanatic, Toronto FC providing entertainment of the "beautiful game" know as soccer and last, but not least, the Toronto Maple Leafs playing NHL hockey at the Air Canada Centre. Toronto is one of the greatest sport fan tourist destinations in North America.

If you are looking to do some Shopping, Toronto is your one stop shop featuring all the international stores and brands featured on our streets and marquee malls - shopping centres. With almost half the residents of Toronto being from some other country, maybe you would appreciate an eclectic and multicultural shopping adventure in one of our markets or shopping districts.

Toronto History and Facts

Toronto's most likely means "place where trees stand in the water" derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto. Toronto is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in a region known as the Golden Horseshoe. People have called this area home for hundreds of years; North America’s first indigenous people the Iroquois and then the Huron inhabited the region for around 11,000 years. In 1793, the British founded the Town of York on the site of modern-day Toronto. In spite of the American attacks during the War of 1812 and the cholera epidemics throughout the 1800s, the population continued to grow, turning Toronto into the industrialized economic centre of Canada. But the waves of immigration in 1945 shaped the city into what it is today - a bustling, multi-cultural centre of art, cuisine, and entertainment. Today, Toronto’s 2.6 million residents speak over 152 languages. Each cultural group weaves its own traditions and ideas into the fabric of the city, creating a unique place where everyone belongs.

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