Ontario Place
| Ontario Place | ||||
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 Aerial view of the park. |
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| place | Toronto , Ontario | |||
| opening | May 22, 1971 | |||
| Website | Ontario Place | |||
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Coordinates: 43 ° 37 ′ 44 " N , 79 ° 24 ′ 54" W.
The Ontario Place is a theme park in the Canadian Toronto . The park is located on three man-made islands in Lake Ontario , about 4 km west of downtown and south of Exhibition Place . In addition to water slides and wild water courses, the park offers a 70 mm IMAX cinema ( Cinesphere ) for 800 viewers housed in a geodesic dome . A large open air stage ( Molson Amphitheater ) was opened on the site in May 1995 , and many international artists have already performed there. There is a marina for about 240 boats at Ontario Place .
The construction of the Ontario Place goes back to the province of Ontario , which wanted to upgrade the Toronto waterfront in the 1960s and wanted to create a structural counterpoint to the structures of the Expo 67 in Montreal . Construction began on March 17, 1969; the cost at the time was $ 29 million. Architects were Eberhard Zeidler , Craig and Strong. The official opening took place on May 22, 1971 with an original area of 360,000 m². The area was later expanded to around 566,000 m² through land reclamation .
modernization
On February 1, 2012, the provincial government of Ontario, as the operator of the park, announced a modernization or conversion of the park, as visitor numbers were declining. It is planned to modernize the entire park in sections and to offer new attractions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ - Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
