Facts about Toronto
CN Tower
Yonge Street
Royal Ontario Museum
The PATH
Royal Bank Plaza
Hockey Hall of Fame
Niagara Falls
Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada
Ontario Science Centre
Источники текстовой информации
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Toronto city

1.

Toronto city

2. Facts about Toronto


Founded in 1834
The largest city in Canada
Population: about 2.8 million people
307 km of rivers and creeks run through the
city
• One of the “greenest” cities in the world

3. CN Tower

• Communications
and observation
tower- the largest
tower in the world
– 553 meters high.
• The elevator will
take you up to the
restaurant with the
glass floor

4. Yonge Street

• Yonge
Street in
Toronto is
the longest
street in the
world: 1896
km long

5. Royal Ontario Museum

• Canada’s biggest
national historic
museum
•More than six
millions items and
forty galleries
•Attracts over
one million
visitors every
year.

6. The PATH

• Toronto has the largest
underground city in the
world called THE PATH
• About 27 km long
• Contains 1200 shops
• Connects more than 50 office
buildings
• Using PATH one can access
twenty parking garages, five
subway stations, two major
department stores, six major
hotels, and a railway terminal

7. Royal Bank Plaza

• RBP is the
headquarters of Royal
Bank of Canada
• Consists of two
Towers: North and
South
• The exteriors of the
Towers are covered
with gold-bronze
glass with tan granite
accents. The glass
was colored using
71,000 g. of gold

8. Hockey Hall of Fame

• The home of the
Stanley Cup
• the finest collection
of hockey artifacts;
themed exhibits
dedicated to the
game’s greatest
players, teams and
achievements; an
extensive array of
multimedia stations;
theatres; larger-thanlife statues; a replica
NHL dressing room

9. Niagara Falls

• You can get
on a one-day
bus tour from
Toronto to
Niagara Falls
that is only
130 km
southwest of
Toronto

10. Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada

• Built at the base of
CN Tower
• Contains 16,000
aquatic animals
• North America’s
longest underwater
viewing tunnel
with more than 5.7
million liters of
water and over 100
interactive
opportunities

11. Ontario Science Centre

• Opened in 1969
• Since then hosted
more than 49
million visitors
• Centre for
innovative
thinking and
public dialogue
about science,
technology and
society

12. Источники текстовой информации

• 1) Toronto Facts (2015). Toronto. Retrieved from http://www.toronto.ca/
• 2) Достопримечательности Торонто (2013). World Journey. Взято с
сайта http://worldjourney.ru/america/195-dostoprimechatelnostitoronto.html
• 3) Toronto/Yonge Street (2015). WikiTravel. Retrieved from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Toronto/Yonge_Street
• 4) PATH. Underground city (2015). A view on cities. Retrieved from
http://www.aviewoncities.com/toronto/path.htm
• 5) Hockey Hall of Fame (n.d.) Hg2 Toronto. Retrieved from
http://www.hg2toronto.com/sights/museum/---hockey-hall-of-fame--toronto-canada
• 6) Conserve, Educate, Inspire! (n.d.) Ripley’s aquarium of Canada.
Retrieved from https://www.ripleyaquariums.com/canada/us/
• 7) Who we are (n.d.) Ontario Science Centre. Retrieved from
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/WhoWeAre/
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