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Black Creek Pioneer Village
Toronto's most popular historical family attraction re-creates rural life in 19th-century Ontario. Workers in period costume care for the farm animals, play fiddlin' folk music and demonstrate country crafts and skills using authentic tools and methods. Shops sell the artisans' handiwork - everything from tin lanterns to fresh bread to woven rugs. Souvenir postcards can be mailed from the old-fashioned post office.
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Canada's Walk Of Fame
True to its nickname 'Hollywood of the North,' Toronto has its own walk of fame, with a collection of subdued red granite stars set into the concrete sidewalk beside Roy Thomson Hall. You'll see a few names you recognize (and some you wish you didn't), though not many of those honored were actually born in Toronto.
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Canadian Broadcasting Centre
Toronto's enormous Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC) is the headquarters for English-language public radio and TV programming across Canada. The French-language production facilities are in Montréal, which leaves the president, in a truly Canadian spirit of compromise, stranded in an executive office in Ottawa.
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Chum/Citytv Complex
Inside the historic industrial gothic Wellesley Building (1913), the progressive Citytv network films its foibles and broadcasts outtakes from their infamous Speakers Corner on the John St corner. Here, anyone can step inside the public video booth, drop a loonie (around C$1 ) in the slot, wait for the five-second countdown then record themselves saying or doing pretty much anything for two minutes.
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Rombus
The Royal Ontario Museum puts the keys in the ignition of monthly bus tours, arranged around historical, architectural and cultural themes - perhaps surveying stained glass at the University of Toronto, art deco heritage or trawling past the architectural offerings of Cabbagetown. Advance reservations required; tours depart the ROM.
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Spadina Quay Wetlands & Waterfront Children's Garden
This 0.28-hectare former parking lot is now a thriving, sustainable ecosystem full of frogs, birds and fish. When lakeside fishermen noticed that mature Northern Pike were spawning here each spring - a pattern probably (and remarkably) unchanged for centuries - the city took it upon itself to create this new habitat.
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