Toronto’s Facts of the Day

Toronto - the name derived from the Huron word for “fishing weir” - is on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario at Latitude 43 39 N, Longitude 79 23 W.

There are 20,371 street intersections in Toronto

North America’s largest continuous underground pedestrian system PATH, connects 1200 stores and restaurants, 50 office towers, five subway stations, Union Station, six major hotels and several entertainment centres under Toronto’s financial core.

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GO trains and buses serve a population of five million. That is almost one fifth of the nations population.

York University is the most travelled to destination in the city of Toronto after the airport.

Both the Roman Coliseum and St. Paul’s Cathedral could fit comfortably inside Toronto’s Rogers Centre stadium .

Toronto is the 5th-largest city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Yonge Street is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the

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