Cinesphere at Ontario Place, Toronto, is a complex of exhibition buildings created on man-made islands in Lake Ontario. The Cinesphere has a curved film screen six storeys high. Art, education, recreation, and entertainment are excitingly combined in this lovely natural setting. At the Forum, an outdoor amphitheatre, free performances include ballet, theatre-in-the-round, brass bands and top musicians. On the mainland opposite is the site of the Canadian National Exhibition, visited by millions of people in late summer each year.

The CN Tower is, in a land of superlatives, the world's tallest free-standing structure. After and incredible ride up the side of most of the tower's 553.33 metres (1815 feet 5 inches) in a glass elevator to the observation deck, tourists can see for up to 120 kilometres (75 miles). It is almost inconceivable that less than 200 years ago only twelve cottages and a small military establishment stood near here.
 

A newer picture shows the Skydome, built for the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.

Night falls on spectacular Toronto City Hall in 3.6 hectare (9 acre) Nathan Phillips Square. Both are symbols of modern Toronto. In winter skaters cover the ice that forms below the arches over the fountain in Nathan Phillips Square, and in summer the site often serves as a venue for various entertainment gallas, such as concerts, rallies and the like.

The Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence below Kingston are a magnificent beauty spot. The Islands - at least 1000 of them - are of widely vaarying sizes. Rocky shoals were cleared in this area when the Seaway project was underway and cottages and tourists now sometimes have an uncomfortably close view of the mammoth ships that steadily ply these waters.
 

Queen Victoria was called upon to settle the argument over where the capital of Canada should be. She chose Ottawa - which is the second oldest caoital city in the world, after Ulan Bator in Mongolia. But this annual testing by frost is accepted good-naturedly by the citizens, who in theirs thousands skate on the Rideau Canal and ski in the Gatineau Hills a few miles away in la province de Quebec. Ottawa, Ontario and Hull, Quebec form the National Capital Region, the focal point of which is the Parliament Buildings. The buildings, largely Victorian/Gothic in style, comprise the Central Block, the Library of Parliament and the Peace Tower.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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