Ontario Attractions

Canada's section of Niagara Falls is known as The Horseshoe Falls which drop about 173 feet (53 m) and is Canada's biggest tourist attraction which bring in around 20 million visitors per year. The Horseshoe Falls are about 2,600 feet (790 m) wide. Peak numbers of visitors to the Horseshoe Falls occur in the summertime, when Niagara Falls are both a daytime and evening attraction. From the Canadian side, floodlights illuminate both sides of the Falls for several hours after dark (until midnight). The oldest and best known tourist attraction at the Horseshoe Falls is the Maid of the Mist boat cruise, named for an ancient Ongiara Indian mythical character, which has carried passengers into the rapids immediately below the Falls since 1846. Cruise boats operate from boat docks on both sides of the falls.

One of Canada's most famous parks commonly visited on a trip from Canada's capital, Ottawa, lies the oldest provincial park in Canada (having been established in 1893) called Algonquin Provincial Park. The park itself consisting of a whopping of 7653 square kilometres is popular with outdoor enthusiasts and canoeists because of its beautiful lakes, forests, bogs, rivers, cliffs and beaches. The park only has a limited number of ways to get in and for campers and day visitors, Highway 60 is generally regarded as the centre of the park, offering camping grounds, walking trails, hiking tours and access to public wolf-howling sessions. There are many natural and historic sites within the Park and for many visitors, a visit to the abandoned OA & PS railroad bed is on the itinerary. This fascinating site also passes by some other populat tourist spots in the park (abandoned train...

Located in the capital city, Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada is one of Canada's premier art galleries. The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988. The diverse collections in the gallery reflect Canada’s varied history including works by European masters such as Monet, Turner and Di Cosimo, as well as avant-garde Canadian paintings from the 1960s and religious sculptures from Quebec. The museum also contains a significant collection of Inuit art which include prints, drawings and whale bone sculptures, many of which portray the cultural and social issues that have affected Canada’s indigenous population. In 2005, a sculpture of a giant spider was installed towards the entrance of the gallery an...

The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower standing 553.3 metres (1,815 ft) tall and is the tallest free standing tower in the Western Hemisphere. Formerley the World's tallest free standing structure is was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa and the Guangzhou Tower in 2009. The tower provides stunning views of Toronto and Lake Ontario along with an awe inspiring appreciation of how high you can look out to the sites below. It takes less than a minute to reach the look-out level in a glass-fronted lift. The tower provides a number of attractions to tourists such as the revolving 360 degrees Restaurant, a walk across a glass floor on the 113th storey, views from the Sky Pod that is 447 metres (1465ft) high and also a collection of entertainment attractions at the base of the tower (such as motion simulator rides, and a short documentary about the engineering behi...

The Skylon Tower standing at 160 metres (520 ft) is the tallest structure that overlooks Niagara Falls with views over the American Falls and the larger Horseshoe Falls, from the Canadian side of the Niagara River. The tower has two restaurants at the top level, the lower Revolving Dining Room and the upper Summit Suite Buffet. The Revolving Dining Room seats over 250 people and revolves through 360 degrees over an hour. An observation deck sits at the tower's summit and the base of the tower features a number of gift shops, fast food restaurants and a large amusement arcade.