Weekend Toronto Downtown Day Trip

Last weekend I went to Toronto downtown. I visited Chinatown, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and University of Toronto. Overall I think Toronto is a clean, vibrant and multi-cultural city. I just managed to visit the downtown core this time, I should pay Toronto another trip to explore more.

The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and tourist tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.39 ft) tall.[1] This one is the highest in North America. It reminds me of our KL Tower.

Rogers Center. BTW, Rogers is the only GSM telco operator in Canada. This building is a multi-purpose stadium in the downtown Toronto, which has a fully-retractable motorized roof.

Canada Life building, at the University Ave. There are many historical buildings along this route.

A beautiful mansion.

Another historical building at the University Avenue.

Some people are demonstrating, demanding justice for Mumia Abu Jamal[2]. They also request Canada and US to retreat their military units from Afghanistan.

Chinatown! Toronto's Chinatown is supposed to be the 2nd largest in North America. So I have visited the largest one (SF,CA) and 2nd largest. ;-) I had a char-siew rice as lunch here. I have been deprived of Hong Kong style roasted pork for months. Never feel so good about this. It reminds me of Stephen Chow's "黯然銷魂飯" in the "食神" movie. Hehe...=D

Some photos of University of Toronto. The university is located right at the downtown and very close to the Chinatown! What a great location to study! =) Access to good food is VVI (Very very important) for people with "Chinese stomach 中國胃"... XD

University of Toronto entrance gate.

Some historical buildings of University of Toronto.

Queen's park in the middle of University of Toronto.

Another view of Queen's park.
A garden with lots of blue flower inside the Faculty of Music.

A snapshot of the University Avenue.

A small park inside the university.

Royal Ontario Museum, a nice museum which has many interesting artifacts. I should write another post to show some artifacts there.

Union Station (Train cum subway hub in the Downtown). The VIA signboard refers to VIA Rail Canada, the national rail operator of Canada. It is not the VIA from Taiwan,R.O.C that makes chips. =D

View inside Union Station.

References
[1] CN Tower website, http://www.cntower.ca/portal/GetPage.aspx?at=848
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal