D n e p r o p e t r o v s k S t a t eU n i v e r s i t y F i n a n c e a n d B a n k i n g F a c u l t y Paper Svir Stanislav D n e p r o p e t r o v s k 1997 T o r o n t o Population 3,274,1986 Daylight Savings Time 4.07 - 10.26 City telephone code 416 Country telephone code 1 Latitude 43.39 N Longitude 79.21 W City Center. Toronto sCity Hall. The two towers, rising 20 and27 stories, are located in the city center in Nathan Phillips Square.
Areflecting pool under the arches is usedas an ice-skating rink in the winter. Toronto is the center of mostpopulous area in Canada and the capital of province of Ontario. Toronto islocated on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Canada. The region is known asthe Golden Horseshoe and is rich in agriculture and industry. It is well placed to trade with all of Canada, theUnited States, and the world.Known in the past by such namesas Little York , Hogtown , and The City You Love to Hate , Toronto has beenportrayed in more flattering terms.
The National Geographic declared Toronto worldly, wealthy, personable, and relatively problem free . Art Gallery called the city possibly the mostcivilized metropolis in the Western Hemisphere . Shoppers can browse through shops on Queen Street West, admire the best of designer fashions in the renovated district of Yorkville, or visitEaton Center, a four - level 25-millions retail complex.For people watching and plenty of culinary delights, there s Kensington Market, which features fresh produce, fish, and plenty of friendly conversation.
The city was designed and renovated tomake the most of its settings on the store of Lake Ontario. The best view is from the CN Tower, a 553-metre spire that is considered the world s tallest free-standing structure.Much of theappeal of Toronto lies in its sense of history, which dates back to 1749 when French fur traders established a ford on the site. Toronto boats a vastmulticultural mix, with large groups ofItalians, Germans, Portuguese, Ukrainians, Asians, and West Indians.
Toronto is a culturalcenter, with the ultra - modern O Keefe Center, which is home to the Canadian Opera Company andthe National Ballet of Canada the ArtGallery of Ontario, with more than 15,000 works - fromOld Masters to contemporaryart - in its permanent collection and the Royal Ontario Museum with its vast array of art andartifacts from cultures the world over.Business and finance are another important element of the city, and Toronto s skyline is dominated by the high - rise towers of financialinstitutions.
Among the most famous is theRoyal Bank Tower with gold-embedded window panels. T h e C N T o w e r You can see the CN Tower on the first page of thepaper.The CN Tower is a key elementin Canada s telecommunications network, provides space for microwave transmission of voice, telex, computer data,facsimile, television, and radio. At 553.33 meters the CN Tower is considered the world stallest free-standing structure.
Construction took 40 months, cost 57 millions, employed 1573 workers, and was completed in June 1976. A slender column resembling a giant needle, it weight 132080 metric tons - the equivalent of 23214 large elephants. Visitors can step inside one of four glass-faced elevatorsand be whisked to the Skypod Observation level in under a minute.There arethree observation decks, at 342, 346, and 447 meters aboveground, the world s highest public observation gallery.
Each of these offers panoramic views of Toronto, the Toronto Islands, and, on a clear day, Niagara Falls. Spectacular views arealso to be had from Top Of Toronto, a restaurant at the 350-metre level that makes a full revolution once every 72 minutes. Those who prefer to dine on the groundlevel can enjoy a snack in the family - style restaurant.The CN Tower has the longestmetal staircase in the world 2570 steps , which is made available to the public each year for a charity stair climb.
Dar Robinsonhas jumped from the top of the tower twice - once with a parachute for the filming of the movie Highpoint 1979 and once using a wire cable for the TV show That s Incredible . On the tower s tenth anniversary, SpiderMan Goodwin completed two free - style climbs outside the glass elevator-shaft window.S k y D o m e Sky Dome is the world s greatest entertainment center.It s a host to wide variety of sporting spectaculars, concerts, family shows and consumers shows.
How big is Toronto s SkyDome? Well, you could put eight Boeing 747s on the playing field. Or all ofEaton Center. Or a 32-home subdivision. Or the Roman Coliseum. Even with the retractable roof closed, a 31-storey buildings could fit inside the structure.The 500-millions buildings opened on June 3, 1989, after 32 months of construction.On that day, inclement weather forced the developers to prove that the paneled roof could beclosed in 20 minutes.
The roof runs on a series of steel track and bogies,weighs 11000 tons and is made up ofsteel tresses covered by steel cladding. The eight-acre stadium offers sports fans five levels of seating and the world s largest video replay screen. More than 50000 people at atime can watch a football or a baseball game, and there is also a 350-room hotel built into the north end of building, with 70rooms offering a view of the playing field.But the building is much morethan a place to watch sporting events under an open roof. There are 23 fast-food stands, 48 beverage outlets, a 430-seat restaurant for quick-service dining, a 300-foot-long bar overlooking the field, the largest McDonnell s in NorthAmerica, the Hard Rock Cafe, and a 120-seat movie theater where tours of the building begin.
T h e R o y a l O n t a r i o M u s e u m The Royal Ontario Museumis Canada s Largest Public Museum, made grander by a recent 55 millions renovation and expansion project.Opened in 1914 the Museum today attracts more than one million visitors a year. Among its impressive holdings, which number more than six million objects and specimens, are a Roman gallery, housing the country smost extensive collection of antiquities the famous dinosaur gallery, with a mastodon, stegosaurus, and otherprehistoric creatures in jungle settings a textile collection with costumesand richly patterned fabrics the Chinese collection, with800 pieces displayed in traditional room settings and special gallery areas.
Of particular note are the giant stone camels and guardian figures ofthe Ming Tomb, the only Chinese tomb in the Western world.
There are also galleries devoted to artifacts of Ontario andCanada. Next door is the McLaughlinPlanetarium where the Theater of theStars uses 85 slide and video projectorsto create planets, exploding stars, and other galactic phenomena.The Sigmund Samuel Building, a few blocks south of the main Museum building, focuses on Canada s rich cultural heritage with displays of antiquetoys, cooking utensils, oil paintings, pottery and sculpture.
The George R.Gardener Museum of Ceramic Art, the only museum specializing in ceramic in North America. N i a g a r a F a l l s Every year more than 12 million people come to Ontario to see the natural phenomenon knows as Niagara Falls. Many are just married, although no one is quite sure how that tradition got started.They come to see thecombined cascading power of the 54-metre Canadian Falls - knows as Horseshoe Falls - and the American Falls, which soars to 56 meters.
There are a variety of ways to view the spectacle four boats enter the Horseshoe Basin and passdirectly in front of cataracts, three tunnels allow visitors to walk behind the Falls. To view the sights from above, you can make a 10-minute helicopter ride, rise to the top of the Skypod Towerobservation deck via the external glass - fronted elevators, or visit the viewing platform atthe Minolta Tower and Marine Aquarium.
If the real thing isn t enough, there s always IMAX Theater s Niagara Miracles,Myths and Magic, shown on a big screen in the villageof Niagara Falls. T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f T o r o n t o. You can receive a highereducation in the University of Toronto. There are faculties of arts, science,music, architecture, medicine, dentistry, nursing, law, engineering, forestry,and library science.Among the universities faculties are the Center for Russian and East European Studies andthe Institute for Aerospace Studies.