A multi-cutural city with a lively and cosmopolitan atmosphere, Toronto is Canada's largest city with plenty of fine restaurants, a busy nightlife and plenty of nearby attractions along lake Ontario, including the world famous Niagara falls. Downtown the CN Tower is the world's tallest freestanding structure while the renovated Harbour front is a fine place for an outdoor wander to eat and drink. For indoors entertainment the city has a clutch of great museums, notably the Bata Shoe Museum and Hockey Hall of Fame, housed in a beautiful old bank building. Some of Toronto's best-preserved historic buildings can be found in York old town, and there's a peerless collection of fine Victorian domestic architecture in Cabbagetown. East Ontario's Algonquin Park is one of Canada's best-loved parks, with a dazzling array of hiking and canoeing options. The lake-dotted semi-wilderness has 1600km of charted canoe routes to explore.

Easily the biggest nearby attractions is Niagara falls, one of the world's greatest. Consisting of the American Falls, small Bridal Veil Falls and beautiful Canadian/Horseshoe Falls, the best views are seen from the Canadian side, and the small touristy town of Niagara with its myriad of attractions, hotels and conventions centres has taken full of advantage of the location. Attracting some 12 million tourists to her majestic awesome beauty each year, one fifth of all the fresh water in the world pours out of the great lakes accounting for 750,000 gallons of water on average tumbling over the falls every second. Although only the second biggest waterfall in the world, it handles the biggest volume of water. Spanning nearly one kilometre and averaging 55m in height, good views are had from many angles as well as a seas-spray boat ride and under-fall tunnels. A long history if commercial tourism is connected with the falls and in winter parts of the falls ice over to spectacular effect.

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