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/