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Paramount Canada's Wonderland is Canada's largest theme park with 330 acres divided into 7 theme areas with more than 65 rides and over 200 attractions in total. The lands are International Street, Medeival Faire, International Festival, Hanna-Barbera Land, White Water Canyon Area, Splash Works, and Grande World Exposition of 1890. Wonderland is a very beautiful park with lots of landscaping, with it's centrepiece being a 100 ft (30 metres) tall mountain made out of limestone with a waterfall in the front. Known as Wonder Mountain, it serves as a cooling system for the park and it's thought to have been designed after a mountain in Africa. Guests used to be allowed to walk up the ramps to the top and observe the rest of the park. Construction "Construction began in June 1979 when William Davis, then Premier fo Ontario, pushed a plunger in downtown Toronto touching off the first blast at what was then called Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan. The peak construction period occured in 1980 with 700 tradespeople, 12 architecural and engineering firms and 40 inspectors working on the enterprise." Opening Day - May 23rd, 1981 "William Davis and Dudley Taft, President of Taft Broadcasting, were among the notables attending an elaborate opening ceremony for Canada's first national theme park. The ceremony included 10,000 helium balloons, 13 parachutists, 350 white doves, a pipe band and 4 children representing the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, and Great Lakes regions of Canada." - from the Paramount Canada's Wonderland official website Landscaping Facts and Figures 1979 - Construction begins on a theme park costing $122 million in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada 1980 - Peak construction begins 1981 - First official operating day begins. Wonderland opens with four coasters: - Ghoster coaster - Mighty Canadian Minebuster - Wild beast - Dragon Fire 1982 - Kings Court Yard group catering facility opens 1983 - Kingswood Music Theatre debuts at the park this year. 1984 - White Water Canyon, made by Intamin AG, opens 1985 - Sky Rider stand up roller coaster debuts this year. 1986 - Thunder Run mine train roller coater debuts this year in Wonder Mountain. 1987 - The Bat a Vekoma boomerang roller coaster debuts this year. 1988 - Racing Rivers water slides debut. 1989 - Timberwolf Falls debuts. 1990 - Jet Scream opens 1991- Vortex, a suspended Arrow roller coaster debuts this year. 1992 - Splash Works water park debuts. 1993 - Kid's Kingdom debuts. 1994 - Paramount Parks buys Canada's Wonderland and invests $400 million into the park. Days of Thunder debuts at the newly built Paramount Action FX Theatre. 1995 - Top Gun suspended looping Vekoma roller coaster debuts. 1996 - Xtreme SkyFlyer bungee drop ride, Whitewater Bay wavepool, and two other water attractions debut. 1997 - Drop Zone Intamin freefall ride, Speed city Raceway go karts, and Cyber Central game arcade debut. 1998 - KidZville, a new kiddie area icluding Taxi Jam and James Bond - A liscence to Thrill simulator are added. 1999 - The Fly wild mouse roller coaster, two new water slides Super Soaker and The plunge, and Dino Island II 3D simulator are added. 2000 - Cliffhanger a Mondial pendulum ride, Scooby Doo's Haunted Mansion an interactive childrens dark ride, and Meteor Attack simulator are added to the park for it's 20th season. 2001 - Zoom Zone, a new kiddie area including Silver Streak junior suspended coaster, Blast Off, and Jumpin Jet, and Shockwave a new Mondial spinning thrill ride, and 7th Portal simulator are added. 2002 - Psyclone, Splash Works added Riptide Racer and Barracuda Blaster, and a second Childrens' Splash Area. Watersnake (in Grade World Expo) and Pipeline (in Splash Works), as well as the Bedrock Aquarium, which played host to the Sea Lion show. 2003 - Sledge Hammer and Nickelodeon Central are new, and the Bedrock area is rethemed to Nickeloden Central. 2004 - Tomb Raider: The Ride is the new attraction at the park for the season, and The Fury and Great Whale of China rides were removed to make way for it. |
Total Area: over 300 acres (over 122 hectares) Tress: 3,700 100-300mm diameter maple, ash, spruce, pine oak, hemlock 2,000 30-100mm diameter crab-apple, vergreen, Norway maple * These numbers represent the original number of tress planted, which does not include additions or removals since 1981. Shrubs: 75,000 conneaster, honey-suckle, dogwood, privet, juniper and yew Turf: 198 acres (80 hectares) with 169 acres (68 hectares) under intensive maintenance Annuals: 30,000 per season Bulbs: 10,000 per season Seat Walls: More than 2 kilometres Berming: More than 3 kilometres Unit Paving Stones: 17 acres, or 3.3 million individual pavers Rock Landscaping: Approximately 10,000 metric tonnes of limestone from Wiarton and Rama Townships of Ontario Grading and Conturing: More than 550,000cubic metres Landscape Architects: Terrplan Landscape Architects, Toronto |
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