Metropolitan Toronto
The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was an upper-tier level of municipal government in Ontario, Canada, from 1953 to 1998.
The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was an upper-tier level of municipal government in Ontario, Canada, from 1953 to 1998. It was made up of the old city of Toronto and numerous townships, towns and villages that surrounded Toronto, which were starting to urbanize rapidly after World War II. It was commonly referred to as "Metro Toronto" or "Metro".
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Worth seeing in and around Metropolitan Toronto
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.
- 01Casa Loma
Casa Loma is a Gothic Revival castle-style mansion and garden in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a historic house museum and landmark. It was constructed from 1911 to 1914 as a residence for financier Sir Henry Pellatt.
4 km · mansion in Toronto, Canada. · Wikipedia - 02Toronto Public Library
Toronto Public Library is a public library system in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest public library system in Canada, and in 2023 had averaged a higher circulation per capita than any other public library system internationally, making it the largest neighbourhood-based library system in the world.
4 km · public library system in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Prince Edward Viaduct
The Prince Edward Viaduct System, commonly referred to as the Bloor Viaduct, is the name of a truss arch bridge system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, connecting Bloor Street East, on the west side of the system, with Danforth Avenue on the east. The system includes the Rosedale Valley phase and the Sherbourne Phase, an embankment built to extend Bloor Street East to the Rosedale Ravine from Sherbourne Street.
3.8 km · truss arch bridge system in Toronto · Wikipedia - 04Ontario 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.
3.6 km · science museum in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 05Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto
The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto is a complex consisting of a 204-metre, 55-storey residential condominium tower and a 125-meter, 30-storey luxury hotel tower in the Yorkville district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which opened on October 5, 2012. Located at 60 Yorkville Avenue, at its intersection with Bay Street, the complex is situated one block east of the former Four Seasons Hotel Toronto building at 21 Avenue Road.
4 km · skyscraper in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries. It was opened in November 1876 and is located north of Moore Park, a neighbourhood of Toronto.
1.3 km · cemetery in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 07Toronto Reference Library
The Toronto Reference Library is a public reference library in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the corner of Yonge Street and Asquith Avenue, within the Yorkville neighbourhood of downtown Toronto and is the largest and most visited branch of Toronto Public Library.
4 km · public library in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Toronto 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".
3.5 km · Public park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Sunnybrook Park
Sunnybrook Park is a large public park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located north of Leaside and south of the Bridle Path areas of the city.
2.5 km · municipal park in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 10St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Clement of Ohrid (Macedonian: Св.
3.2 km · church in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
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Getting to Metropolitan Toronto
- Airports
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 20 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 74 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 100 km
- Stations
- Eglinton, 1.5 km · Chester, 3.9 km · Davisville, 1.7 km · St. Clair, 2.4 km · Rosedale, 3.5 km
- Hamilton → Metropolitan Toronto13904 km · quickest by air, 29h 4m · NZ$3,050–4,720
- Windsor → Metropolitan Toronto332 km · quickest by air, 4h 35m · C$140–210
- Ottawa → Metropolitan Toronto351 km · quickest by air, 4h 39m · C$150–230
- 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 Metropolitan Toronto
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 Metropolitan Toronto. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Toronto, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Metropolitan Toronto
Metropolitan Toronto is 1 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bridle Pathneighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3 km
- Forest Hillneighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3 km
- Lytton Parkhuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.3 km
- Midtownhuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada1.1 km
- Toronto—Danforthfederal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 2000)3.9 km
- Deer Parkneighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.4 km