The Centre Rogers or Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) is the main stadium in the city of Toronto in Ontario, located at the foot of the CN Tower on the shores of Lake Ontario. It is mainly used for sporting events such as baseball, football Canadian, and also for the basketball and wrestling. The Centre Rogers sometimes organizes concerts, lectures and exhibitions.Since 1989, its tenants are the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League in MLB and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. In 2008, the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League decided to play one game per season at Rogers Centre. Between 1995 and 1999, the Toronto Raptors played their home games before moving into the Air Canada Centre. The Vanier Cup is back in the chamber in 2007.

The Rogers Centre is famous for being the first stadium to have a motorized retractable roof that cost $ 100 million, a hotel with 348 rooms is committed to him (Renaissance Hotel $ 112 million), with 70 rooms overlooking the field. This is also the stage of North America’s most recent built for the Canadian football and major league baseball, although some of the new stadiums in baseball sometimes hosted occasional football matches university.

The stadium has a capacity of 50516 seats for baseball, for football 53506 Canadian 37000 for basketball and between 10000 and 55000 for concerts depending on the configuration. It has 161 Skyboxes (suites) for the more affluent.

The CN Tower or officially Canada’s National Tower is a tower of 553.33 meters located in the center of Toronto, Canada, which has become the emblem of the city . The tower is sometimes called the Canadian National Tower because the railway company Canadian National (CN) was the owner of the tower. Tourists can reach only halfway up to a platform with multiple levels between 342 m and 351 m above sea level: a revolving restaurant (which performs a complete circuit in 72 minutes), an observation platform, and a transparent floor.It was built in 1976 by the Canadian National (CN) who wanted to show the strength of the Canadian industry by building the tallest building in the world. Originally planned as an antenna for radio and television, it is now one of the main tourist attractions in Toronto. In 1995, Canada Lands Company purchased the tower. The Crown corporation has since renamed Canada’s National Tower, a name less common than CN tower.

The Sky Pod (a small platform, which is well above the main floor observation) is located 447 m, and is the highest observation post opened to the public in the world. Go to the Sky Pod is done by paying a fee.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the CN Tower was “the highest standing structure in the world.” On Sept. 13, 2007, the Burj Dubai exceeds the CN Tower, which makes it lose its title’s tallest free standing structure in the world.

The CN Tower is one of the seven wonders of the modern world, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. She also belongs to the Federation of the great towers of the World. It is the central theme of the novel Thus speaks the CN Tower, poet and novelist francophone Toronto Hedi Bouraoui.

So, in perspective, if the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lampur, and, more recently, the Tour Taipeï Taipeï 101 of the tallest buildings in the world, the CN Tower in Toronto remains the 2nd tallest building.

Toronto is the largest city in Canada, with more than 2.5 million inhabitants (6136654 in the Greater Toronto in 2006) (Toronto) on 630 sq. km.

Toronto is the capital of the Province of Ontario (former Upper Canada) and the metropolitan economy. The population of Greater Toronto 6136654 inhabitants. It is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, which it is the economic heart. Toronto is a modern city whose multicultural face now only 40% of the population is of British origin old. The lingua franca has always been English (spoken by almost a hundred percent of the population), with the Italian, Portuguese and Chinese are also fairly common.

Toronto is at the heart of the intellectual and cultural life of English-speaking Canada. The English-language channel of the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, as well as TV and TFO, strings anglophone and francophone Ontario government. Most publishing houses are located in Toronto. The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) at the Harbourfront Centre is the first literary festival in English Canada. Toronto is also a centre of production for the film and theatre (International Film Festival in Toronto ([1]). The National Ballet of Canada and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are in Toronto. There are two local newspapers, the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun and two national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and National Post. Furthermore there several daily newspapers (Metro, 24 Hours) and weekly (Now, Eye, …). The Toronto Public Library has Among other things, the largest public collection of documents relating to the science fiction, the Merril Collection, stocked with over 55000 articles.

The city enjoys an extensive system of public transport (the Toronto Transit Commission), the Metro (four lines, 69 stations), trams in the city centre, and buses. The line is considered to be cleaner than the average, but suffers from the fact that it does not cover the whole city, plus it does only highway going north-south in the city, making traffic in the City very difficult and creates pollution problems. Often pollution will not see the top of the largest skyscrapers. The Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario (the largest in the country) serves the Greater Toronto Area and the southern part of the province.

Sites to Visit 

CN Tower to 553 metres.
SkyDome or Rogers Centre, sports centre
Toronto’s City Hall
Queen’s Park, site of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
St. Michael’s Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Toronto.
St. James Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
Princess of Wales Theatre and Royal Alexandra Theatre
Royal Ontario Museum
University of Toronto
Bata Shoe Museum
Le Petit Glenn
The castle Casa Loma
The Hall of Fame hockey (Hockey Hall of Fame)
The Woodbine racetrack.

Sports

Among all Canadian cities Toronto has the largest amount of professional teams, including the most popular locally is his hockey team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. At a lower level, the city contains many amateur leagues and hundreds of arenas. Although hockey is quite as dominant sport, there is a large community of immigrants from countries where football is the favourite activity, and soccer is actually very common too. Trying to capitalize on this, the MLS has founded a football club in 2006, called Toronto FC. The team made its debut in the League in April 2007.