A city assembled from everywhere else
An independent guide to Toronto — 27 landmarks, museums, parks, venues and neighborhoods, walked and written up first-hand.
The ones you came for
CN Tower
553 metres of concrete built to fix a television reception problem, with a glass floor and an option to walk around the outside.
St Lawrence Market
A market since 1803, in a building wrapped around the old city hall, and the peameal bacon sandwich is not optional.
Kensington Market
A few blocks of Victorian houses turned into shops, occupied in turn by every group that has arrived in Toronto since 1900.
The Toronto Islands
Fifteen islands a ferry ride offshore, with no cars, a residential community that fought eviction for forty years, and the best view of the skyline.
Royal Ontario Museum
Canada's largest museum, with a Libeskind crystal crashing through the front of it that the city has never agreed about.
The Distillery District
Forty-odd Victorian industrial buildings from what was once the largest distillery in the world, pedestrianised and full of galleries.
Toronto by category
Day-by-day itineraries
Neighborhoods
The essentials
How to get in from all three airports, how the subway and the ferries actually fit together, and the history that explains what you're standing in front of.
From the guide
Eating in Toronto
Half the city was born somewhere else, and the food follows exactly — which means the best meal here is rarely Canadian.
From the Carrying Place to Half the World
A portage route, a garrison town nobody wanted, a byword for Protestant dullness, and then the most diverse city on earth.
Getting Around Toronto
Two useful subway lines, a very large streetcar network, and a card called Presto that does all of it.