Yonge-Dundas

All that is left of Fire Hall 3, built in 1872, is its elegant clock tower, the main structure having been demolished and replaced a retail building, which by 2019 has been demolished leaving the tower standing alone within a construction site

This small, attractive park sits amid tall buildings on all four sides. It has walkways, benches, flower beds, a water feature and five large bronze statues of frogs. In winter, an oval "trail" in the park can be frozen for ice skating. The trail is named after Barbara Ann Scott, a Canadian figure skater and a gold medal winner in the 1948 Olympics. You can buy a coffee in the shopping mall at the north side and enjoy it in the park.

Sankofa Square (former name: Yonge-Dundas Square) is a bustling outdoor public space & live-event venue hosting free concerts, movies & community events. The square has fountains and sitting areas and is surrounded by buildings with colourful electronic billboards. The city renamed the square in 2023 to distance it from the namesake of Dundas Street, Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician who had argued for an eight-year delay of the British abolition of slavery, against those who supported immediate emancipation.

Toronto's modernist City Hall designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell and was completed in 1965. Nathan Phillips Square features a reflecting pool that turns into a skating rink in the winter. You can find the "Toronto Sign" right beside the reflecting pool. The sign is a popular spot for both tourists and Torontoians alike to take a picture. The Peace Garden is on the middle west side of the square just beyond the elevated walkway. If you walk further west between the rear of Osgoode Hall and the modern Superior Court of Justice, you will see a park with a few sculptures and a fountain at University Avenue. It hosts a farmers' market Wednesdays June-early October, 10AM-2:30PM (except the last W in June). The square hosts festivals most weekends during the summer.

This modest Gothic Revival church was built in 1847. It is approximately five storeys tall, and though the scale of the church is modest, its height is emphasized through details which point upward. With the rectory building, the church gives Trinity Square a rustic look despite the modern buildings around it. The square has densely planted trees along walkways, a decorative fountain of water falling from a wall into an ornamental pond, and an artificial stream.

Gothic-style cathedral that is one of the oldest churches in Toronto.

A small museum with exhibits about prominent Canadian musicians and singers, from jazz to opera.

This museum is dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles. It has displays on historic & ethnographic fabrics, plus contemporary art & hands-on exhibits.

Occupying in the atrium at Police Headquarters building, the museum reflects the tradition and history of policing in Toronto. Since the museum is within the Toronto Police headquarters, all visitors must undergo security screening prior to entry.

There is bronze map of "Yonge Street" set in the sidewalk across the street from Sankofa Square (former name: Yonge-Dundas Square) to promote the urban myth that Yonge Street is the longest street in the world. Until 1999, the Guinness Book of World Records supported this myth because it incorrectly assumed that provincial Highway 11, 1896 km long, and Yonge Street, 88 km long, were one and the same.

The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto is in a very attractive Victorian-era building built in 1891, which is a designated National Historic Site of Canada. The club brings together writers, architects, musicians, painters, graphic artists, actors, and others working in or with a love of the arts.

Miniature Canadian buildings, landscape and cities. It features miniaturized versions of Niagara Falls, Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ottawa and Quebec City.

These two theatres are the last remaining Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. They were opened in 1913, showing mainly Vaudeville acts. After the decline of Vaudeville, the upper level Winter Garden closed and the lower level Elgin was converted into a cinema. By the 1970s the Elgin was showing a mixture of B-movies and pornography, but in the 1980s the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought both theatres and restored them to their original glory. They now show mainly Broadway plays and musicals and serve as venues for the Toronto International Film Festival.

This 1½-hour tour will recount the history and restoration of this National Historic Site of Canada. You will see the original and new lobbies, a backstage exhibit housing the Winter Garden’s original Simplex Silent Film Projector, a dressing room containing artifacts from the time period, and samples from the world’s largest collection of vaudeville scenery.

This theatre opened as the Pantages Theatre in 1920, hosting films and Vaudeville acts. In the 1970s it was split up into several cinemas to form a modern multiplex. It was restored and reopened as a theatre in 1989, most famously hosting Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera for more than ten years.

See a performance of the Canadian Opera Company, or the National Ballet of Canada.

A performing arts theatre with renowned acoustics, Massey Hall opened in 1894 and is today a designated National Historic Site of Canada.