Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Toronto, Canada

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 8.7 km
Ascend 177 m
Descend 173 m

Experience Toronto in Canada in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in TorontoIndividual Sights in Toronto

Sight 1: Congregation Shaarei Tzedec

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Shaarei Tzedec Congregation is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 397 Markham Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Wikipedia: Shaarei Tzedec (EN)

656 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: First Narayever Congregation

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First Narayever Congregation is a traditional-egalitarian synagogue located at 187 Brunswick Avenue, in the Harbord Village neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest Jewish congregation in downtown Toronto. It was founded by the Jewish immigrants from Narayiv, western Ukraine, hence the Yiddish name "Narayever".

Wikipedia: First Narayever Congregation (EN), Website

377 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Knox Presbyterian Church

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Knox Presbyterian Church The original uploader was SimonP at English Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

Knox Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Wikipedia: Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto) (EN)

589 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Trinity-St. Paul's United Church

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Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts is a church belonging to the United Church of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 427 Bloor Street West, just west of Spadina Avenue in the city's downtown core. The church is formed of a mix of three different former congregations and houses a fourth independent congregation within its building.

Wikipedia: Trinity-St. Paul's United Church (EN), Website

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Bata Shoe Museum

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The Bata Shoe Museum (BSM) is a museum of footwear and calceology in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum's building is situated near the northwest of the University of Toronto's St. George campus, in downtown Toronto. The 3,665-square-metre (39,450 sq ft) museum building was designed by Moriyama & Teshima Architects, with Raymond Moriyama as the lead architect.

Wikipedia: Bata Shoe Museum (EN), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Saint Thomas's Anglican Church

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St. Thomas's Church, Huron Street is a parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in Toronto, Ontario. One of the earliest Anglo-Catholic congregations in Canada, it was established in 1874, moving twice before settling into its present building, adjacent to the Annex on the western edge of the University of Toronto's downtown campus.

Wikipedia: St. Thomas's Anglican Church (Toronto) (EN), Website

361 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: St. Thomas Aquinas Church

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St. Thomas Aquinas Church or Newman Chapel is a Roman Catholic church within the St. George campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1926-1927 as a chapel for the Newman Centre next door. In 1995, it became a quasi-parish church. It is situated on the corner of Hoskin Avenue and St. George Street in Toronto, next to Massey College.

Wikipedia: St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Toronto (EN)

416 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: University College

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University College, popularly referred to as UC, is a constituent college of the University of Toronto, created in 1853 specifically as an institution of higher learning free of religious affiliation. It was the founding member of the university's modern collegiate system, and its non-denominationalism contrasted with contemporary colleges at the time, such as Trinity College and St. Michael's College, both of which later became part of the University of Toronto.

Wikipedia: University College, Toronto (EN)

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

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Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

The Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory is a historical observatory located on the grounds of the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The original building was constructed in 1840 as part of a worldwide research project run by Edward Sabine to determine the cause of fluctuations in magnetic declination. Measurements from the Toronto site demonstrated that sunspots were responsible for this effect on Earth's magnetic field. When this project concluded in 1853, the observatory was greatly expanded by the Canadian government and served as the country's primary meteorological station and official timekeeper for over fifty years. The observatory is considered the birthplace of Canadian astronomy.

Wikipedia: Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory (EN)

107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Hart House Theatre

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Hart House Theatre is a 454-seat theatre in Toronto, Ontario located on the campus of the University of Toronto in the Hart House Student Centre. The theatre serves the university and the Toronto community at large.

Wikipedia: Hart House Theatre (EN)

418 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Ontario Veterans Memorial

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Ontario Veterans' War Memorial is a 30-metre-long (98 ft) granite wall located on the front south lawn of Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The wall was designed by Allan Harding MacKay and landscape architectural firm Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg. Besides images laser-etched into the granite, the wall also includes inscriptions from author Jane Urquhart and military historian Jack Granatstein on the bronze centre- and end-pieces respectively. The wall was advocated for by the Veterans’ Memorial Advisory Committee under the leadership of retired Lieutenant-general Richard Rohmer, former Minister of Government Services, Gerry Phillips and public art consultant Karen Mills of Public Art Management.

Wikipedia: Ontario Veterans' Memorial (EN)

137 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Queen Elizabeth II

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A statue of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, stands in Queen's Park, in Toronto, Ontario. The bronze sculpture, depicting the Queen on the sovereign's throne from 1878, was unveiled in 2023. Reception has been mixed.

Wikipedia: Statue_of_Elizabeth_II_(Toronto) (EN)

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Queen's Park (North)

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Queen's Park (North)松林 L from Toronto, Canada / CC BY 2.0

Queen's Park is an urban park in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1860 by Edward, Prince of Wales, it was named in honour of Queen Victoria. The park is the site of the Ontario Legislative Building, which houses the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The phrase "Queen's Park" is regularly used as a metonym for the Government of Ontario or the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Wikipedia: Queen's Park (Toronto) (EN)

442 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Royal Ontario Museum

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Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making it the most-visited museum in Canada. It is north of Queen's Park, in the University of Toronto district, with its main entrance on Bloor Street West. Museum subway station is named after it and, since a 2008 renovation, is decorated to resemble the ROM's collection at the platform level.

Wikipedia: Royal Ontario Museum (EN), Website

629 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 15: Taddle Creek Park

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Taddle Creek Park

Taddle Creek is a buried stream in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that flowed a southeasterly course about six kilometres long, from St. Clair Avenue west of Bathurst Street through the present site of Wychwood Park, through the University of Toronto, into the Toronto Harbour near the Distillery District. During the 19th century, it was buried and converted into an underground sewer, but traces of the creek can still be found today. The scenic footpath known as Philosopher's Walk follows the ravine created by the creek from the Royal Ontario Museum to Trinity College. Taddle Creek is also the name of a Toronto literary magazine and of a local Montessori school.

Wikipedia: Taddle Creek (EN)

524 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 16: Church of the Redeemer

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Church of the RedeemerDennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Church of the Redeemer is an Anglican church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The small church is prominently located at the intersection of Bloor Street and Avenue Road, near the Royal Ontario Museum. The Gothic Revival style building opened on June 15, 1879.

Wikipedia: Church of the Redeemer (Toronto) (EN), Website

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Gardiner Museum

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Gardiner MuseumSmart Destinations from Boston, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0

The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art is a ceramics museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is situated within University of Toronto's St. George campus, in downtown Toronto. The 4,299.2-square-metre (46,276 sq ft) museum building was designed by Keith Wagland, with further expansions and renovations done by KPMB Architects.

Wikipedia: Gardiner Museum (EN), Website, Opening Hours

1188 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 18: St. Paul's Anglican Church

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St. Paul's, Bloor Street, is an Anglican church located at 227 Bloor Street East in Toronto, Ontario. The present church building, completed in 1913, was designed by E. J. Lennox in the Gothic Revival style. At 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft), it is the largest church in the Diocese of Toronto. The building is designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act as being of cultural heritage value or interest. It is the regimental church of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.

Wikipedia: St. Paul's, Bloor Street (EN)

1360 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 19: Ramsden Park

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Ramsden Park Paull Young / CC BY 2.0

Ramsden Park is a public park located at 1020 Yonge Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with access via Ramsden Park Road. and Pears Avenue. With an area of 13.7 acres, Ramsden Park is one of the largest in downtown Toronto. It features playgrounds, basketball courts, hockey rinks and a small skateboarding feature.

Wikipedia: Ramsden Park (EN)

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