Archive: Ontario Cool Facts

Canada Life Building © Lucy Izon

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You can tell if the weather will get cooler in Toronto by looking at the lights on the top of the Canada Life Building

Toronto City Hall © Lucy Izon

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Toronto City Hall, which is partically shaped like a space ship, was actually in Star Trek!

Snowball Ontario

This is great: there’s a community in Ontario called Snowball!

Photo courtesy Canadian Canoe Museum

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The largest collection of canoes and kayaks in the world is at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough

Pembroke Murals

Pembroke - Canada’s largest outdoor art gallery with 32 large scale murals!

For Better or For Worse

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Lynn Johnston’s internationally famous comic strip ‘For Better or For Worse’ was created in a small community on the outskirts of North Bay

Elvis

Every year in late July Collingwood hosts the Largest Elvis Festival in the World! Even Priscilla is showing up

Winston Churchill by Karsh

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It was Yousuf Karsh, who had his photograhy studio in the Chateau Laurier Hotel, who took the most famous photo of Winston Churchill

Mathew Perry

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Famous ‘friend’ Matthew Perry was raised in Ottawa. His mom was press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

Peterborough Lift Lock © Lucy Izon

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In Peterborough you can ride through the highest hydraulic lift lock in the world

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