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Air Canada Centre
Guided tours of the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs (hockey) and Toronto Raptors (basketball) take you where the players go, even into the dressing room sans players. But you'll enjoy the hi-tech arena more if you can actually score tickets to a game. Tours run hourly, events permitting, highlighting remnants of the 1941 moderne Toronto Postal Delivery Building incorporated into the structure of the ACC, which opened for business in 1999.
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Amsterdam Brewing Co
Steam Whistle's poor relation hangs out in a seedy redbrick building under the Gardiner Expwy. But without Amsterdam, Toronto's first microbrewery (1986), the local microbrew scene would never have scaled such light-headed heights! House specials include a Dutch Amber Lager, a seasonal Spring Bock brew, a lighter Summer Wheat Beer and a British-style Nut Brown Ale. Tour reservations essential.
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Centreville Amusement Park
From the Centre Island ferry terminal, wander past the information booth and first-aid station to quaint Centreville. Squeezed together on a few hundred acres are an antique carousel, goofy golf course, miniature train rides and a sky gondola. Far Enough Farm zoo presents kids with plenty of opportunities to cuddle something furry and step in something sticky.
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Exhibition Place
Each year these historic grounds are revived for their original purpose: the Canadian National Exhibition. During 'The Ex' millions of visitors enjoy carnival rides, lumberjack competitions and more good, honest, homegrown fun than a Sunday School picnic in June. Presiding over the main entry to the grounds is the beaux-arts Princes' Gate - one of the few buildings in Toronto that will make you stop and say, 'Wow!'.
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Mariposa Cruises
Narrated harbor tours are the standard offering here, but they also run two-hour buffet lunch (adult/child around C$40 /around C$20 ) and Sunday brunch (adult/child around C$45 /around C$24 ) cruises, plus three-hour dinner-and-dance evening cruises ($70). Check the website or call for times and dates.
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Massey Hall
Landmark redbrick Massey Hall, festooned with fire escapes, was given to the city in 1894 by industrial baron Hart Massey. Orators, explorers and other famous faces (including Oscar Wilde, George Gershwin, Charlie Mingus and the Dalai Lama) have all appeared on its stage. The acoustics are superb, a fact not lost on occasional performers the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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Ontario Place
Built in 1971 on three artificial islands offshore from Exhibition Place, this 40-hectare recreation complex is an easy way to beat the summer heat. It is starting to feel a little dated, but Ontario Place still offers something for everybody. A 'Play All Day' pass gets you to most of the rides and attractions, including Soak City waterpark and walk-up seating at the Cinesphere, where 70mm IMAX films screen on a six-storey curved screen.
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Paramount Canada's Wonderland
Wonderland is a state-of-the-art amusement park with over 60 rides, including some killer rollercoasters with lunch-losing names like 'The Cliffhanger,' 'Drop Zone' and 'Sky Rider.' There's also an exploding volcano, a 20-hectare Splash Works water park, Jimmy Neutron's Brainwasher, and the Fantastic World of Hanna-Barbera for the young 'uns. Queues can be lengthy, except on overcast days; most rides operate rain or shine.
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Rogers Centre
As technically awe-inspiring as the CN Tower, the Rogers Centre (formerly the SkyDome - people still confuse the two) sports stadium opened in 1989 with the world's first fully retractable dome roof. Made mostly of concrete, this engineering spectacular moves at a rapid 22m per minute, taking just 20 minutes to completely open. That sure beats Montréal's Olympic Stadium, which opened once but failed to ever do so again.
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Roy Thomson Hall
Looking like an inverted ballerina's tutu, this concert hall's controversial design has been called neo-expressionist, deconstructionist, and a whole lot of other rude words we can't repeat here. Inside it's another story, the superb acoustics more than good enough for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and touring acts like Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Ravi Shankar.
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Steam Whistle Brewing
Bubbling away in a 1929 steam train repair depot at the foot of the CN Tower, this microbrewery specializes in a hugely popular, crisp European-style Pilsner. In fact, that's all they make! (A policy of 'Do one thing, but do it really, really well' prevails). During snappy, punny tours of the premises, guides explain the brewing process in great detail and let you blow the railway roundhouse's historic steam whistle
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Toronto Hippo Tours
How can you spot the Hippo bus? It's the big yellow thing with seaweed dipping off its axles (well, lake weed perhaps). These amphibious buses take families on goofily-narrated tours of downtown before plunging into the harbor; your driver is also a marine captain.
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Toronto Tours
Narrated harbor cruises depart hourly in April, May, September and October; every 30 minutes between June and August. This is a great way to check out the Toronto Islands if you're not visiting them under your own steam, and they also run various city/harbor tour combos (some including the CN Tower). The departure dock is at the foot of York St. Online booking discounts available.
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