Armour Heights
Armour Heights is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the district of North York.
Armour Heights is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the district of North York. It is bounded by Wilson Avenue to the south, Bathurst Street to the west, and the west branch of the Don River to the north and east. Highway 401 cuts through the centre of the neighbourhood.
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Worth seeing in and around Armour Heights
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mel Lastman Square
Mel Lastman Square is a public square at North York Civic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after then North York mayor Mel Lastman.
3 km · square in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Yorkdale Shopping Centre
Yorkdale Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the southwest corner of the Highway 401 and Allen Road interchange in the former city of North York. It spans 1,845,725 square feet of selling space and has sales of CA$1,905 per square foot, making it the country's third-largest mall by area, and the mall with the highest sales per unit area.
2.7 km · shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 03York Cemetery, Toronto
York Cemetery is a cemetery located in the North York area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada operated by the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.
2.8 km · cemetery in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Canadian Air and Space Museum
The Canadian Air and Space Conservancy was an aviation museum that was located in Toronto, Ontario, featuring artifacts, exhibits and stories illustrating a century of Canadian aviation heritage and achievements. The museum was located in a hangar that once housed the original de Havilland Canada aircraft manufacturing building, but in September 2011 the museum and all of the other tenants in the building were evicted by the landlord, the Crown Corporation, PDP.
3.7 km · aviation museum in Toronto, Ontario · Wikipedia - 05North York Central Library
North York Central Library is a Toronto Public Library branch located in North York City Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the two libraries in the Toronto public library system considered to be "Research and Reference Libraries", the other being the Toronto Reference Library in the city's downtown core.
3.1 km · library branch located in North York, Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Lawrence Allen Centre
The Lawrence Allen Centre, formerly Lawrence Square Shopping Centre, is a shopping centre located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by RioCan, it is one of the city's twenty largest malls.
3.3 km · shopping mall · Wikipedia - 07Gibson House
Gibson House is a historical museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Yonge Street, in the North York Centre neighbourhood of the former city of North York.
3.2 km · historical museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Herb Carnegie Centennial Centre
The Herb Carnegie Centennial Centre, formerly named the North York Centennial Centre, is a multi-purpose arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1966 and occasionally hosted the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey League.
3.8 km · arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Dempsey Store
Dempsey Store was a hardware store built in 1860 at the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The historic store was moved and restored as a historic site further north at 250 Beecroft Road in 1996.
3.2 km · commercial building in Toronto · Wikipedia - 10Government of Canada Building
The Joseph Shepard Building, also known as the Joseph Shepard Federal Building, Government of Canada Building, or simply 4900 Yonge, is an office complex used by the federal government of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Yonge Street in the North York neighbourhood of Lansing, the building lies within North York City Centre.
2.6 km · government building in North York, Toronto · Wikipedia
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Getting to Armour Heights
- Airports
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 18 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 75 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 106 km
- Stations
- Downsview Airport, 2.9 km · Sheppard–Yonge, 2.5 km · North York Centre, 3.1 km · Sheppard West, 2.7 km · York Mills, 1.8 km
- Hamilton → Armour Heights13904 km · quickest by air, 28h 57m · NZ$3,050–4,710
- Windsor → Armour Heights333 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · C$130–210
- Ottawa → Armour Heights349 km · quickest by air, 4h 32m · C$150–230
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Armour Heights
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Armour Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA free ferry service also makes the short crossing: it is just 121 metres, the world's shortest regularly-scheduled ferry route.
- Get inTTC streetcars are available within a short walk from the mainland ferry terminal: Route 509 Harbourfront travels east along the waterfront (Queens Quay) to Union Station.
- Get aroundA visit to Toronto Islands from the ferry docks at the southern end of Bay Street is a great way to spend a bike-friendly, relaxed afternoon by bike.
- Get aroundThe trip to the Toronto Islands from the downtown core (Bay St and Queens Quay) is a pleasant 15-minute ferry ride, with frequent summer service and the best views of the Toronto skyline.
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Next door to Armour Heights
Armour Heights is 5 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lytton Parkhuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3.5 km
- Bedford Parkneighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2 km
- Downsviewneighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3.1 km
- North York City Centreneighbourhood in Toronto, Canada3.2 km
- Hoggs Hollowhuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.4 km
- York Centrefederal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 1953)2.6 km