Don Mills
Don Mills is a mixed-use neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Don Mills is a mixed-use neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was developed in the 1950s and 1960s to be a self-supporting "new town" and was at the time located outside Toronto proper in the suburb of North York. Consisting of residential, commercial and industrial sub-districts, it was planned and developed by private enterprise.
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Worth seeing in and around Don Mills
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.
- 01The Aga Khan Museum
The Aga Khan Museum is a museum of Islamic art located in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is dedicated to Islamic art and objects, and it houses approximately 1,200 rare objects assembled by Shah Karim al-Husayni and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.
1.6 km · museum dedicated to Islamic history, artifacts and art pieces in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Ontario Science Centre
The Ontario Science Centre, originally the Centennial Centre of Science and Technology, is a science museum and educational organization temporarily located at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Canada.
2.3 km · science museum in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Toronto Botanical Garden
The Toronto Botanical Garden is located at 777 Lawrence Avenue East at Leslie Street, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Termed "The little garden with big ideas", the TBG is nearly four acres and features 17 themed "city-sized gardens".
1.2 km · Public park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 04St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Clement of Ohrid (Macedonian: Св.
3.2 km · church in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 05CNIB Foundation
The CNIB Foundation is a Canadian charitable organization and volunteer agency dedicated to assisting Canadians who are blind or living with vision loss, and to provide information about vision health for all Canadians. Founded in 1918 as the Canadian National Institute for the Blind to assist soldiers who had been blinded in the First World War, CNIB originally offered sheltered care and specialized employment to people with vision loss.
3.5 km · Canadian National Institute for the Blind · Wikipedia - 06Edwards Gardens
Edwards Gardens is a botanical garden located on the southwest corner of Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is also the site of the Toronto Botanical Garden, a private not-for-profit organization previously called the Civic Garden Centre.
1.3 km · botanical garden in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 07American-Canadian Macedonian Orthodox Diocese
The Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of America and Canada is one of 10 dioceses of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. Operating a near total of forty churches in Canada and the United States, the diocese is headed by Metropolitan Methodius.
3.2 km · diocese of the Macedonian Orthodox Church · Wikipedia - 08Glendon College
Glendon College is a public liberal arts college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Formally the federated bilingual campus of York University, it is one of the school's nine colleges and 11 faculties with 100 full-time faculty members and a student population of about 2,100.
3 km · bilingual liberal arts college of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 09East York Town Centre
East York Town Centre is a shopping centre located in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The centre serves the surrounding community and contains a variety of retail stores, restaurants, and services.
3.5 km · shopping mall · Wikipedia - 10Church of St. Jude
The Church of St. Jude is an historic church in the Scarborough area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2.9 km · church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Don Mills
- Airports
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 24 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 79 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 101 km
- Stations
- Oriole GO Station, 3.6 km
- Hamilton → Don Mills13911 km · quickest by air, 29h 19m · NZ$3,060–4,730
- Windsor → Don Mills340 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · C$150–230
- Ottawa → Don Mills341 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · C$160–250
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Don Mills
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 Don Mills. 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 Don Mills
Don Mills is 6 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bridle Pathneighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2 km
- Lawrence Parkneighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada4 km
- Henry Farmneighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3.7 km
- Parkway ForestNeighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada3.9 km
- Wexfordhuman settlement in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada3.2 km
- Ismaili Centre, Torontocultural meeting place for the Ismaili community in Toronto, Canada1.6 km