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Editor: Jock
Edited: May 3, 2010

Golden Horseshoe Attractions & Amusements

— Indoor Fun —

Golden Horseshoe: Art and Music Centres

• Art Gallery of Hamilton
  Ontario´s third largest public art gallery, and holds one of Canada´s finest collections of Canadian historical, modernist and contemporary art.
• Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)
  Major collection of Canadian art, European and 20^th century art, prints and drawings with featured highlights from each of these.
• Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton)
  Theatre Aquarius owns and operates the Centre and is the third largest regional theatre in the province of Ontario.
• Harbourfront Centre (Toronto)
  On Toronto's waterfront, Harbourfront Centre nurtures and supports educational and recreational activity as well as contemporary artistic creation through showcasing Canadian and international talent.
• Massey Hall (Toronto)
  Concerts and events.
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Village of Kleinburg)
  
• Mississauga´s Living Arts Centre
  
• Molson Amphitheatre (Ontario Place - Toronto)
  
• Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto)
  World of Arts and Entertainment.
• The Robert Mede Gallery (Toronto)
  
• The Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts (Brantford)
  
• The Toronto Centre for the Arts
  
• Toronto Symphony Orchestra
  Canada's foremost symphonic ensemble.

Golden Horseshoe: Attractions

• Canadian Air & Space Museum
  
• CN Tower (Toronto)
  
• Copps Coliseum (Hamilton)
  
• Hockey Hall of Fame (Toronto)
  
• Mahoney Dolls' House Gallery (Fort Erie)
  A collection of over 140 doll houses as well as miniatures spanning from 1780–2000 housed in historic Bertie Hall a terminus on the underground railroad.
• Ontario Science Centre (Toronto)
  
• Rogers Centre (Toronto)
  Formerly know as the SkyDome.
• Skylon Tower (Niagara Falls)
  Niagara’s most famous landmark.
• The Air Canada Centre (Toronto)
  
• W.J. McCallion Planetarium (Hamilton)
  Located at McMaster University.
• Wings of Paradise (Cambridge)
  

Golden Horseshoe: Casinos / Race Tracks

• Casino Niagara (Niagara Falls)
  
• Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort (Niagara Falls)
  Experience everything special.
• Flamboro Downs (Hamilton)
  
• Fort Erie Race Track and Slots
  
• Woodbine Racetrack (Toronto)
  

Golden Horseshoe: Cinemas

• The IMAX experience
  Information on IMAX theatres worldwide including - Mississauga, Toronto, Brampton, Niagara Falls, London, Sudbury and Woodbridge.
• Ontario Place Cinesphere (Toronto)
  The world's first permanent IMAX theatre.

Golden Horseshoe: Museums

• Canadian War Plane Heritage Museum (Hamilton)
  
• Guelph Civic Museum
  
• Hamilton Children's Museum
  
• Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology
  
• Niagara Falls Railway Museum (Niagara Falls)
  
• Peel Heritage Complex (Brampton)
  Includes Art Gallery of Peel, Region of Peel Archives, Region of Peel Museum and the historic Peel County Courthouse.

- Toronto -

• Bata Shoe Museum
  A unique collection of more than 10,000 shoes explores the significance of footwear throughout history.
• Royal Ontario Museum
  Civilization · Nature · Discovery
• Textile Museum of Canada
  The diverse collection includes fabrics, ceremonial cloths, garments, carpets and quilts.
• The CBC Museum
  Celebrate more than 60 years of Canadian Broadcasting.
• The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
  Devoted to ceramics and ceramic research.
• The Redpath Sugar Museum
  Focuses on the history and production of sugar, and the areas where it is refined. The original Redpath Refinery was founded in Montréal in 1854. Tours are available.
• Toronto Aerospace Museum
  Displays military, commercial and experimental planes and artifacts. Located at Parc Downsview Park.
• Toronto Police Museum and Discovery Centre
  Conventional and interactive displays focus on the history of the service, and on notorious cases the force has investigated. Displays uniforms, vehicles and equipment.

Golden Horseshoe: Theatres

- Theatre (Big) -

• Canon Theatre (Toronto)
  Formerly The Pantages Theatre.
• Factory Theatre (Toronto)
  
• Famous People Players (Toronto)
  Dinner theatre.
• Canadian Opera Company (Toronto)
  The Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. The company enjoys an international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation.
• Hamilton Place Theatre
  Located in the Ronald V. Joyce Centre for the Performing Arts.
• Sony Theatre for the Performing Arts (Toronto)
  Canada’s premier performance venue.
• Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People (Toronto)
  Formerly the Young Peoples Theatre. Canada’s largest professional theatre for young people and is one of the top, award-winning theatre companies in the country.
• Princess of Wales Theatre (Toronto)
  Stage built is one of the widest and deepest in North America and its technical facilities are state-of-the-art.
• River Run Centre (Guelph)
  
• Royal Alexandra Theatre (Toronto)
  Was named with royal permission for King Edward VII’s consort, Queen Alexandra, great-grandmother of the present queen.
• Shaw Festival Theatre (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  
• Stage West (Mississauga)
  All Suite Hotel and Theatre Restaurant.
• The National Ballet (Toronto)
  
• The Tarragon Theatre (Toronto)
  Primarily a playwrights’ theatre. Develops, encourages, creates new work; trains artists and technicians to interpret new work.
• Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto)
  Dinner theatre.
• The Toronto Centre for the Arts
  

- Theatre (Small) -

• Artwood Theatre (Toronto)
  150-seat theatre and an art gallery.
• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto)
  
• Cabbagetown Theatre Company (Toronto)
  
• Dundas Little Theatre Inc. (Hamilton)
  
• Elora Community Theatre (Fergus)
  
• Guelph Little Theatre
  
• Hamilton Theatre Inc.
  
• Lighthouse Festival Theatre (Port Dover)
  
• The Players’ Guild of Hamilton, Inc.
  
• Upstart Crow Theatre Group (Toronto)
  

- Improv & Comedy -

• Bad Dog Theatre Company (Toronto)
  Formerly Theatresports Toronto.
• Centre of Gravity
  
• Circus Without Borders/Lunacy Cabaret
  
• Mixed Company (Toronto)
  
• Monket Toast (Toronto)
  The Improvised Talk Show.
• Second City (Toronto)
  This web site covers all Second City Theatres in North America.
• Slap Happy (Toronto)
  

— Outdoor Fun —

Golden Horseshoe: Festivals / Exhibitions

• Bloor West Village "Ukrainian Festival" (Toronto)
  North America's largest Ukrainian Street Festival.
• Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto)
  
• Fergus Scottish Festival
  Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
• Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (Toronto)
  
• Niagara Grape and Wine Festivals
  Offers an impressive assortment of more than 100 events: wines tasting, cuisine sampling, live concerts, and parades. Begins on the third Friday in September and continues for ten days.
• Toronto International Film Festival
  

Golden Horseshoe: Entertainment

• Black Creek Pioneer Village (Toronto)
  19^th century Victorian Village.
• Bowmanville Zoo
  
• Brantford Twin Valley Zoo
  
• Canada’s Walk of Fame (Toronto)
  
• Great Gorge Adventure (Niagara Falls)
  When you take this trip you will walk along a scenic boardwalk beside one of the wildest stretches of whitewater in the world.
• Journey Behind the Falls (Niagara Falls)
  No trip to Niagara Falls is complete without a visit under the falls.
• Kanata Village (Brantford)
  A recreated Iroquoian village and Interpretive Centre.
• Maid of the Mist (Niagara Falls)
  The powerful diesel-engined boats take visitors to the base of the American Falls and then on to the basin of the magnificent Canadian Horseshoe Falls.
• Whirlpool Aero Car (Niagara Falls)
  The best way to see Niagara’s fascinating Whirlpool is from high overhead.
• Ontario Place (Toronto)
• Toronto Zoo
  
• Westfield Heritage Village (Rockton)
  Over 30 historic buildings on 324 acres of unspoiled natural woodlands and meadows.
• Zooz (Stevensville)
  Located between Niagara Falls and Fort Erie.

Golden Horseshoe: Gardens

• Cullen Gardens and Miniature Village (Whitby)
  
• Orchard Home Farm (St. George)
  Is a family-run 80-acre apple and pear orchard.
• The Fergus Market
  More than just another market.
• Puddicombe Farms (Winona)
  Family fun in a farm setting.

Golden Horseshoe: Historic Sites

• Butlers Barracks (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  A complex representing 150 years of military history.
• Casa Loma (Toronto)
  Toronto's most romantic historic castle.
• Dundurn Castle (Hamilton)
  National Historic site features the life and times of Sir Allan Napier MacNab (1798–1862).
• Fort George (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  A reconstructed British fort from the War of 1812.
• Fort York (Toronto)
  
• Griffin House (Hamilton)
  Enerals Griffin who was one of the early refugee slaves to find refuge in Upper Canada through the Underground Railroad lived here.
• Laura Secord Homestead (Queenston)
  Heroine of the War of 1812.
• McCrae House (Guelph)
  John McCrae was a respected physician and noted professor of medicine but best remembered as the author of ‘In Flanders Fields’.
• McFarland House (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Experience gracious living 1840’s style.
• Old Fort Erie
  A strategic military site during the War of 1812. The fort was occupied by American forces who used this location as their base of operations for the invasion of Upper Canada.
• Queenston Heights National Historic Site
  The site of the 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights; includes Brock’s Monument.
• Stoney Creek Battlefield and House
  
• Whitehern Historic House and Garden (Hamilton)
  Former home of the McQuesten family.

Golden Horseshoe: Conservation Areas / Parks

- Conservation Areas / Parks -

• Hamilton Region Conservation Authority (HRCA)
  
• Niagara Parks
  Over 20 natural wonders to discover.

- Theme Parks -

• Adventure Village (Hamilton)
  
• African Lion Safari (Cambridge)
  Canada’s original safari adventure!
• Centreville Amusement Park (Toronto Islands)
  A turn of the 19th Century themed amusement park located on Centre Island.
• Confederation Park (Hamilton)
  Offers an 83-hectare package of fun and adventure located on the shores of Lake Ontario.
• Elora Gorge
  
• Marineland Theme Park (Niagara Falls)
  
• Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory
  
• Paramount Canada’s Wonderland (north of Toronto)
  
• Playdium Mississauga
  An energized environment where you are free to escape everyday life and live out your ultimate fantasies.
• Wild Water Kingdom (Toronto)
  Canada’s largest water park.
• Wild Waterworks (Hamilton)
  Surf the waves in Canada’s largest outdoor wave pool. Over a million gallons of heated water splash down every minute. Located in Confederation Park.

Golden Horseshoe: Tours / Wineries / Cruises

- Tours & Cruises -

• Bike On Tours
  Provides guides and maps for self-guided bicycle touring, and also provides information and consulting on bicycle planning and bicycle tourism.
• Crush on Niagara Wine Tours
  Daily wine tours and wonderful getaway packages including savoury dishes and overnight accommodations.
• Grape and Wine Tours
  Custom designed tours of wineries and bistros and fine dining restaurants.
• Grape Escape Wine Tours
  Year-round daily tours include gourmet lunch and winery tours, afternoon winery tours, gourmet dinner and winery tours and custom, group and corporate tours.
• Guelph Arts Council Historical walking tours
  Selected Sundays, April through October.
• Niagara Wine Tours International (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Provide daily leisurely bicycle and passenger van tours to Niagara wineries.
• Grand River Dinner Cruises (Caledonia)
  An unforgettable day in the country. Enjoy a delicious roast beef meal on one of our three 60-passenger boats while cruising down the Grand River, a Canadian Heritage River.
• Toronto Hippo Tours
  A Hippo is a unique 40 passenger vessel that offers land and water tours of Toronto.

- Wineries -

• Angels Gate Winery (Beamsville)
  A limited production winery.
• Birchwood Estate Wines
  (Owned by Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd.)
• Carline Cellars (Niagara-on the Lake)
  One of Niagara’s newest wineries.
• Cave Spring Cellars (Jordan)
  One of Niagara's oldest ‘vinifera’ plantings.
• Cattail Creek Family Estate Winery (Niagara-on the Lake)
  Goal is to be recognized as a premium producer of Canadian wines.
• Château des Charmes (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Its vineyards are ideally positioned south of Lake Ontario and north of the Niagara Escarpment, allowing superb growing conditions.
• Coyote’s Run Estate Winery (David's)
  A small craft winery.
• De Sousa Wine Cellars (Beamsville)
  (Owned by Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd.)
• EastDell Estates Winery (Beamsville)
  (Owned by Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd.)
• frogpondfarm (Near Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  The only certified organic winery in Ontario.
• Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery (St. Catharines)
  A small premium estate winery.
• Hernder Estate Wines (St. Catharines)
  A Wine Lover's Paradise.
• Hillebrand Estates Winery (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Canada's leading producer of premium VQA wines.
• Inniskillin Wines Inc. (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Canada's premier estate winery.
• Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Has an amphitheater where performing arts and award-winning wines meet.
• Joseph's Estate Wines (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  
• Konzelmann Estate Winery (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Niagara's Exclusive Lakefront Winery.
• Lakeview Cellars (Vineland)
  (Owned by Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd.)
• Lailey Vineyard (Niagara on the Lake)
  A small winery.
• Maleta Estate Winery (Niagara on the Lake)
  A small premium winery.
• Marynissen Estates (Niagara on the Lake)
  Specializes in premium varietals such as Cabernet and Merlot.
• Peller Estates Winery (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Three Generations of Excellence.
• Peninsula Ridge Estates Winery (Beamsville)
  
• Stonechurch Vineyards (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  
• Strewn Winery (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Home to the Wine Country Cooking School.
• 20 Bees (Virgil)
  (Owned by Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd.)
• Vineland Estates Winery (Vineland)
  Ontario's most picturesque winery.

Golden Horseshoe: Trails / Hiking / Skiing

• Bruce Trail
  
• Highlands Nordic
  Offers Niagara Escarpment Nature at it’s best: groomed ski trails.
• Trans Canada Trail
  

— Accommodations —

Golden Horseshoe: Bed & Breakfast

• Greater Toronto Area Bed and Breakfast
  
• Niagara Falls Region Bed and Breakfast
  
• SouthWestern Ontario Bed and Breakfast
  
• Niagara-on-the-Lake Historic Bed and Breakfast
  

Golden Horseshoe: Camping Grounds / Trailer Parks

• Niagara Falls KOA Kampground
  
• Camping in Ontario
  
• The Ontario Camping Association
  
• Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park & Camp-Resort (Toronto)
  

Golden Horseshoe: Spas / Retreats / Resorts

• clear (Toronto)
  Total concept day spa and hair salon.
• Langdon Hall Country House Hotel and Spa (Cambridge)
  Ontario’s premier country inn for relaxation and escape from the bustle of city life.
• Sanctuary (Oakville)
  Canada’s Premier day spa.
• The Elmwood Spa (Toronto)
  Providing the finest health and beauty services for both women and men since 1982.
• The Millcroft Inn (Alton)
  Situated in the rolling countryside of Ontario's Caledon Hills, the historic Millcroft Inn is a refreshing blend of rural serenity and sophisticated hospitality.
• Vintage Inns (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
  Information about The Prince of Wales Hotel and Spa, Queens Landing and The Pillar and Post.