Essential Toronto [antikvár]

Toronto's skyline, dominated by the CN Tower, on the shores of Lake Ontario. The lakefront setting makes it a metropolis with something of a seaside atmosphere INTRODUCTION 'Toronto., .a kind of New York operated by the Swiss', Globe and Mail, 1 August 1987 Metropolitan Toronto is that rarity among major North American cities - a community of many small-town virtues and few big-city vices, with trees to balance the skyscrapers and racoons in its ravines. It has all the advantages of a city of two and a half million, an art world, theatre, television production, 5,000 restaurants, major-league baseball, hockey and football and that ultimate symbol of sporting prominence, a domed stadium, yet its crime rate is negligible and its downtown full of life. In Toronto people live in the heart of the city as weU as the suburbs and stroll its leafy streets day or night not only with impunity but with pleasure, a state of affairs which may not be all that remarkable in Europe but is almost unknown in major western hemisphere communities. A