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The Distillery Historic District Toronto is a place to hang out around artisan shops, boutique bakeries and restaurants, art galleries and entertainment venues. The webpage for the Distillery District promotes the area as ‘the place to see and be seen’. National Geographic called The Distillery “Hip new neighbourhood within the best preserved collection of Victorian…
by Ric Garrido
Earlier this month I stayed three nights at the InterContinental Toronto Centre. The hotel is attached to the Metro Toronto Conference Centre (MTCC) and conveniently located near the downtown Union Station transportation hub. This is one of two InterContinental Hotels in Toronto. I stayed at both properties for five nights of my Toronto stay this…
by Ric Garrido
Toronto is a city of hospitals, hotels and skyscraper urban renewal in the downtown district north of the harbourfront. Cranes and condominiums fill the skyline. These are simply images I saw in Toronto and not a guide to things a tourist should see. The subway ride from the Bloor Yorkville luxury hotel area with Four…
On the corner of Bloor and St. George, across the street from the University of Toronto, a young black man was seeking donations for his campaign to expand Black History month from February to a year round celebration of black culture. He turned away from me once he realized I was not going to give…
Bloor Yorkville is the high-end shopping district of Toronto, sometimes referred to as the ‘mink mile’. Is that politically correct to say these days? I picked up that name from the district description in the Official Toronto Visitor Guide 2013. Toronto appeared to me as an environmentally conscious city with activists recruiting other ecologically minded…
“It’s all good in the hood,” is not an expression I expected to hear in Toronto coming out of a seven-year-old-looking white girl’s mouth as she oscillated around the sidewalk in the way kids do while waiting for her mom to find car keys. She may have been speaking urban slang or simply referring to…
One of Toronto’s main attractions is a Harbour Cruise or ferry ride over to the Toronto Islands. Centre Island is the largest of the islands. Two facts highlighted on three different tours I made while in Toronto is Hanlan Point is where Babe Ruth hit his first professional baseball home run September 5, 1914 and…
Toronto Harbourfront has been a 40-year redevelopment project of Toronto’s downtown port and warehouse district into a cultural, entertainment and residential district. A sign on a pedestrian bridge at WestJet Stage says the Radisson Admiral Hotel opened in 1985. Pedestrian Bridge at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. Radisson Admiral Hotel is upper right with glass windows. These…
Being a Californian I thought I was viewing the fattest squirrel I’d ever seen. Animal identification is a a skill I am still developing. A groundhog or woodchuck is an animal I have only seen on television despite five years living in the northeast US in Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine. Groundhog outside Toronto Metro Convention Centre.…
CN Tower in Toronto was for many years the tallest tower in the world (1,815 ft.) from 1975-2007. Now it has dropped to #3. Yesterday I visited the CN Tower adjacent to the Toronto Convention Center. Blogger disclosure: One of the freebies of attending TBEX Toronto is complimentary admission to a variety of Toronto attractions…
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