Accessible seating is marked on the seat map. Companion seats are complimentary. No accommodations necessary for general admission shows. For questions, companion seats or further help please contact accessibility themrggroup. There are several parking lots within walking distance from the theatre. The Exhibition Place Grounds have approximately 8, spots available.

More info on parking on the Ex Place Grounds here. We suggest Lot 4 just behind the venue. Yes, we sell snacks and non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages for purchase inside the venue. No outside food or drinks are permitted inside The QET. The QET accepts all forms of payment.

At this time we prefer Debit and Credit but also accept cash. We accept US cash on par. No Exchange rate at this time. Is There A Dress Code? Shoes and shirts are necessary for entry. Do You Have a Coat Check? Yes, coats and bags can be checked on the second floor of The QET.

Coat check is available on a first come, first serve basis. Please note all bags will be searched by security upon entry. The QET is unable to store oversized bags or prohibited items. In , the Dufferin Gates were replaced with a more elaborate arch and out-buildings on each side. The Dufferin Gates were patrolled by soldiers. When the CNE became the world's largest annual fair in , a year plan was launched following the urban design and architectural precedents of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

The Empire Court was to be a monumental central space with a triumphal arch and gates and monumental exhibition buildings with courtyards. During the s, the exhibition grounds were expanded to the west and to the east, as well as to the south, where reclaimed land was used to build Lake Shore Boulevard originally "Boulevard Drive" , connecting downtown with Toronto's growing western suburbs.

By the s, the Beaux-Arts style faded in popularity. The start of the trend for a new style of architecture arguably became evident in the construction of the Automotive Building in , the first building that moved away from the Beaux-Art architecture envisioned by the plan, mixing clean modern lines with classical ornamentation. In , the Horse Palace was built, replacing temporary stables used for the Winter Fair. The Horse Palace used Art Deco ornamentation.

In , the Art Deco Bandshell was constructed for open-air music concerts. During the Second World War , the exhibition grounds became Toronto's main military training grounds. The CNE, and virtually all other non-military uses of the lands ceased.

The CNE was not held between and , when the land and its facilities were turned over to the Department of National Defence as a training ground. The CNE would resume again in , as the Canadian military returned the grounds back to its civilian administrators. However, until , the buildings were used for emergency housing.

The first phase of demolition in demolished all of the wooden buildings, leaving only the original stone buildings. The new buildings, mostly in the central block of the site, exhibited a new Modernist style of architecture. In , the third Grandstand burned down.

In its place was built the fourth Grandstand, a massive concrete construction and monumental cantilevered steel roof was a sharp contrast to the other buildings around it. The Modernist trend continued with the construction of other buildings and monuments typifying the modernist style including the Food Building , the Shell Oil Tower , Queen Elizabeth Building and the Princess Margaret Fountain In the later s, the new six-lane Gardiner Expressway was pushed through the north side of the grounds, cut below grade in the western section of the grounds, and an elevated section in the eastern section.

The new parabolic arch Dufferin Gate was built in The building housed the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame from to In , the Coliseum was re-clad with a modernist south facade. To replace its exhibit in the Ontario Government Building, the Government of Ontario built Ontario Place on artificial islands to the south of Exhibition Place accessible via two foot bridges.

Coinciding with the opening of the ultra-modern Ontario Place to the south, a new master plan for the Exhibition site was developed in The Master Plan was radical, calling for the demolition of many pre-World War II buildings, new Modernist buildings, and a massive central public space with a reflecting pool and fountains on the site of Exhibition Stadium, which was to be relocated.

It had first been proposed to connect Union Station and the Exhibition Grounds. Dufferin Street was to be connected to Lake Shore Boulevard, a new four-lane road along the north of the site and a new place parking lot taking the place of buildings to the west of Dufferin. The plan resulted in some demolition, such as the Electrical and Engineering Building in allegedly in poor structural condition and the General Exhibits Building and Art Gallery, which were in the path of the new road.

In , the International Building, formerly the Transportation Building , to the west of the bandshell, burnt down. It was hosting an exhibit on Spain during the CNE when it caught fire and was destroyed. The building was demolished and not replaced, the site left vacant and has since used mostly as a parking lot. The plan was abandoned after Exhibition Stadium was redeveloped and enlarged to host Major League Baseball in In , to celebrate the centenary of the fair, a copy of the original music bandstand was built on the site of the original in the park north of the Horticulture Building.

North of the park a new structure designed to resemble the s-era exhibition buildings was added. The park was renamed Centennial Square and is also used for corporate picnics. The annual IndyCar race was first organized at the site in In , the streets were turned into a high-speed open-wheel car racing circuit for the first time.

The streets of Exhibition Place are closed off to regular traffic and a closed circuit is made through the grounds and along Lake Shore Boulevard. The exterior was restored and a new interior was built. It saw the tear-down of the permanent midway buildings and the Flyer roller coaster.

The City planned to charge rent to the midway's operator, Conklin Shows, which chose to tear down the buildings instead and set up temporary rides each year for the CNE. The new National Trade Centre now the Enercare Centre trade show building, planned since the plan, was built on the vacant Electrical Building site to host more and larger trade shows year-round. It incorporated the Coliseum and Annex buildings to create one large exhibit space. In , the Coliseum now the Coca-Cola Coliseum was rebuilt and expanded to provide a home for professional ice hockey.

It is currently the home of the Toronto Marlies team from October to April each year. In , Exhibition Stadium , mostly vacant after the opening of the downtown SkyDome stadium, was demolished. The site was vacant until , when the new BMO Field soccer stadium, a public-private partnership, was built on the site to bring Major League Soccer to Toronto.

The new soccer stadium also meant the end of the Hall of Fame building. The Hockey Hall of Fame had vacated earlier for downtown Toronto. A portion of the Hall of Fame facade was retained as one of the entrances to the new stadium.

During the s, the Exhibition Place grounds has seen several proposals for new uses. In July , the City of Toronto asked for aquarium proposals from private enterprises. The only two respondents, Ripley Entertainment and Oceanus Holdings, suggested that they would be interested provided the location was closer downtown or had better transit access and parking.

When the City of Toronto was considering the construction of a permanent casino, the CNE was the site of several proposals. The aquarium was built next to the CN tower and the City chose not to build a permanent casino. Two new buildings have been added at Exhibition Place. In the north-west corner, the Toronto Raptors basketball team built the Biosteel Centre now the OVO Athletic Centre , a practice facility which is shared part-time with the community. The foundations of several of the New Fort York buildings were revealed as part of the development.

The hotel was built to complement the facilities of the Enercare and Allstream Centres. The soccer stadium was recently expanded, and adapted to allow it to host the Canadian Football League 's Toronto Argonauts. The centre, along with other facilities at Exhibition Place was used as event venues for the Pan American Games. The Enercare Centre and Coliseum buildings were used for indoor sports, temporary facilities for beach volleyball were built south of BMO Field and a watercourse laid out on Lake Ontario.

As a result of the games, the Toronto Honda Indy was scheduled in June to allow for time for the site to prepare for the Pan Am Games. As well the site was wound down in time for setup for the Canadian National Exhibition scheduled to open August Buildings[ edit ] While the CNE only lasts for a few weeks at the end of the summer, many major permanent buildings and other structures have been built over the years.

Most are used for other purposes throughout the year. Stanley Barracks Officers' Quarters. Erected in , the building is the last remaining structure of New Fort York , a military installation that predates Exhibition Place. The west end of the grounds is the original site of exhibitions and the oldest buildings are located here.

There are five purpose-built fair buildings designed by architect G. Just south of Dufferin Gate is Centennial Square, a green space with a bandstand. The Ontario Government Building was added later in The Bandshell, modeled after the famed Art Deco Hollywood Bowl was built in , replacing a bandstand.

North of the Bandshell is Bandshell Park, a large open green space for gatherings. Near the Bandshell is the s Scadding Cabin , the only building dating to the inaugural exhibition. To the west of Bandshell park, the former International Building site is now a parking lot, and there is a parking lot in the north-west corner of the site.

The central block contains more recent s buildings, which are all replacements for earlier buildings, and are larger than the buildings to the west: the Better Living Centre exhibition space , the Queen Elizabeth Building complex theatre, exhibition and administration sections and the Food Building.

South of BMO Field is a large open parking lot and midway area. The CNE plans to make the area a public square, and move the parking underground. South of the central section are two pedestrian bridges over Lake Shore Boulevard to the Ontario Place complex.

The east block was the most active area of military usage and retains the only military building left on the site, the Stanley Barracks Officers' Quarters, dating to the s. The area is a mix of buildings, including the older Coliseum, Horse Palace and newer buildings. The section is dominated by the exhibition complex of the Enercare Centre, Coliseum and the Industry Building. The Horse Palace which adjoins the Coliseum and is used for equine shows and quartering , the Automotive Building which was once used for car shows and is now a conference centre and the General Services Building are all older exhibition buildings dating from the s.

The new "Hotel X" project includes a display of foundations of New Fort York which once occupied part of the site. Sports venues[ edit ] Exhibition Place was also home to Exhibition Stadium , which was built out of the fourth Grandstand by adding two extra wings of seats. The original grandstand had been constructed in the late s and was re-modelled, replaced, or destroyed over the years. The two teams left for SkyDome now Rogers Centre in After it lost many stadium concert tours to Rogers Centre, and many other outdoor concerts to the nearby Molson Amphitheatre at Ontario Place, its usefulness was at an end.

The stadium was demolished in to serve as parking and allow a more sprawling midway. Exhibition Stadium former stadium [ edit ] Main article: Exhibition Stadium Exterior of Exhibition Stadium in , several years before it was demolished. The CNE has been host to four grandstands since its inception. The third grandstand, designed by G.

Gouinlock, was built in and had a capacity of 16, It burned down in , subsequently leading to the construction of the fourth known as CNE Grandstand , built in Designed by architects Marani and Morris, this building was the first of what would prove to be several Modernist buildings built on the CNE grounds, its distinctive and bold cantilevered truss roof dominating the grounds for over 50 years. It initially housed 22, people, but was expanded over the years to a maximum of 54, in order to accommodate the additional seating required for major professional sports teams who made CNE Grandstand their home.

It became the home base for the Toronto Argonauts football team, and later, to the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team. Architect Bill Sanford designed the alterations for baseball in In addition to sports, CNE Grandstand was the stage for many entertainers over the years. After the grandstand was demolished, open-air concerts during the CNE have been held at the Bandshell.

By that time it was recognized that the building was beginning to visibly decay, and was little used in its final decade of existence. Though it was the earliest of the modernist-style buildings on the grounds, it was the only one not to become a historically listed building. It was finally demolished in The Hall of Fame building had been vacated by the Hockey Hall of Fame and was demolished to make way for the stadium.

Capacity is approximately 31, people. It opened on April 28, , the start of the MLS season. It was expanded for the season and had a new roof installed for the season. In conjunction with the stadium construction, Princes' Boulevard was re-routed to the south of the stadium.

Price and renovated by Brisbin Brook Beynon, Architects. Its main entrance was originally to the north, and the building was remodelled with a Modernist facade main entrance to the south in The original facade was restored when the Enercare Centre was built. It is home to the minor league Toronto Marlies professional ice hockey team during the winter months. It has two basketball courts.

The facility displaced some parkland, including a baseball diamond on the site used for a CNE tournament. One of the Modernist buildings on the site, the original purpose of the Better Living Centre was to introduce new ranges of consumer goods to the baby boomer generation, making it a "space of encounter between consumer and product".

For many people attending the CNE, the building hosted their first encounters with such technologies as colour television , transistor radios or home computers. It also became the place where people would expect to see the latest models of various consumer goods, ranging from vacuum cleaners to kitchen appliances.

The building's stark modernist architecture, made up of large white forms, a vast flat roof and harsh angles, suited its futurist themes. The building was designed by architects Marani, Morris and Allan [19] and was opened by Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips on August 17, It was built on the former site of the Manufacturers' building, which burned down in The new building replaced the exhibit space of the Manufacturers' Building and the General Exhibit Building.

Instead, it has been divided in two. The building is used at other times of the year for special events. It hosts an indoor amusement park during March Break and a Hallowe'en exhibit "Screamers" during the month of October. The Enercare Centre , along Princes' Boulevard, has seven exhibit halls with 1,, square feet 93, m2 of space.

It is interconnected with the Coca-Cola Coliseum and the Industry Building to the north to provide one large, configurable exhibition space. During the exhibition, the building houses the international product displays and animal shows. It was designed by Richard A. At the main entrance and west entrance, bronze fish sculptures were created by Toronto artist Jean Horne in the reflecting pool [21] and an foot 24 m tall stainless steel pylon stands to the right of the main entrance.

The structure is clad in brick and the roof is of a unique folded-plate cast-concrete design. The theatre, which has seats, has been used for radio, variety, and fashion shows and hosts stage productions and concerts. The exhibition hall, which is a large uninterrupted exhibit space is used year-round and is home to arts, crafts, and hobbies displays during the CNE. It is not only the oldest building on the grounds, but the oldest building in Toronto.

It was built by the Queen's York Rangers in on behalf of John Scadding , who served as clerk essentially, an executive assistant to the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada , John Graves Simcoe. The original cabin was disassembled from its original site and rebuilt by the York Pioneers, along with an adjacent cabin made out of new logs, on the current site, just in time for the original Toronto Industrial Exhibition in Scadding Cabin is Toronto's oldest standing structure.

Erected in , it was moved to its present site in Scadding was given a plot of land from what is now just north of Gerrard Street East, south to the waterfront. Scadding sold the property in to William Smith. In , his son William Smith offered the cabin to the York Pioneers , a local historical society. Around this time, someone mistook the information concerning the original owner for the cabin, leading to it being erroneously called "The Governor Simcoe cabin".

When he died in , the York Pioneers renamed it "The Scadding Cabin", in honour of this son of the original owner, who had also been a past president of their society. It is a squat, two-storey log cabin with low ceilings, designed to retain the heat from the fire in winter close to its occupants.

It is said that John Graves Simcoe, who was over 6 ft 1.

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In addition to the flexible and open plans the theatre foyer had a large spiral staircase a polychromatic floor. The theatre had the largest performing stage of its time in Canada. The theatre held many events and performances that made the building a very popular venue at the CNE. Various fashion and cooking shows were held in the theatre which drew large crowds. The Queen Elizabeth Building was built in one of the most historically rich locations in Toronto.

The site has had various types to trading, buying and selling since the 18th century, in which French forts were built to establish successful furs trade routes. Later, the grounds were officially established as the Exhibition Place with the construction of the Crystal Palace in This building and the many other mid-century modern designs at Exhibition Place mark this very impactful era of design that heavily shifted our thinking towards the way architecture can look and feel.

These modern techniques as seen in the Queen Elizabeth Building encourage flexibility and adaptability through open plans while also keeping very geometrically familiar clean lines and forms. This building sits in one of the most heavily trafficked locations in Canada, from to the present-day Exhibition Place, over 5 million people visit the grounds every year. It was hosting an exhibit on Spain during the CNE when it caught fire and was destroyed.

The building was demolished and not replaced, the site left vacant and has since used mostly as a parking lot. The plan was abandoned after Exhibition Stadium was redeveloped and enlarged to host Major League Baseball in In , to celebrate the centenary of the fair, a copy of the original music bandstand was built on the site of the original in the park north of the Horticulture Building. North of the park a new structure designed to resemble the s-era exhibition buildings was added.

The park was renamed Centennial Square and is also used for corporate picnics. The annual IndyCar race was first organized at the site in In , the streets were turned into a high-speed open-wheel car racing circuit for the first time.

The streets of Exhibition Place are closed off to regular traffic and a closed circuit is made through the grounds and along Lake Shore Boulevard. The exterior was restored and a new interior was built. It saw the tear-down of the permanent midway buildings and the Flyer roller coaster. The City planned to charge rent to the midway's operator, Conklin Shows, which chose to tear down the buildings instead and set up temporary rides each year for the CNE.

The new National Trade Centre now the Enercare Centre trade show building, planned since the plan, was built on the vacant Electrical Building site to host more and larger trade shows year-round. It incorporated the Coliseum and Annex buildings to create one large exhibit space. In , the Coliseum now the Coca-Cola Coliseum was rebuilt and expanded to provide a home for professional ice hockey. It is currently the home of the Toronto Marlies team from October to April each year.

In , Exhibition Stadium , mostly vacant after the opening of the downtown SkyDome stadium, was demolished. The site was vacant until , when the new BMO Field soccer stadium, a public-private partnership, was built on the site to bring Major League Soccer to Toronto. The new soccer stadium also meant the end of the Hall of Fame building. The Hockey Hall of Fame had vacated earlier for downtown Toronto. A portion of the Hall of Fame facade was retained as one of the entrances to the new stadium.

During the s, the Exhibition Place grounds has seen several proposals for new uses. In July , the City of Toronto asked for aquarium proposals from private enterprises. The only two respondents, Ripley Entertainment and Oceanus Holdings, suggested that they would be interested provided the location was closer downtown or had better transit access and parking. When the City of Toronto was considering the construction of a permanent casino, the CNE was the site of several proposals.

The aquarium was built next to the CN tower and the City chose not to build a permanent casino. Two new buildings have been added at Exhibition Place. In the north-west corner, the Toronto Raptors basketball team built the Biosteel Centre now the OVO Athletic Centre , a practice facility which is shared part-time with the community. The foundations of several of the New Fort York buildings were revealed as part of the development. The hotel was built to complement the facilities of the Enercare and Allstream Centres.

The soccer stadium was recently expanded, and adapted to allow it to host the Canadian Football League 's Toronto Argonauts. The centre, along with other facilities at Exhibition Place was used as event venues for the Pan American Games. The Enercare Centre and Coliseum buildings were used for indoor sports, temporary facilities for beach volleyball were built south of BMO Field and a watercourse laid out on Lake Ontario.

As a result of the games, the Toronto Honda Indy was scheduled in June to allow for time for the site to prepare for the Pan Am Games. As well the site was wound down in time for setup for the Canadian National Exhibition scheduled to open August Buildings[ edit ] While the CNE only lasts for a few weeks at the end of the summer, many major permanent buildings and other structures have been built over the years. Most are used for other purposes throughout the year.

Stanley Barracks Officers' Quarters. Erected in , the building is the last remaining structure of New Fort York , a military installation that predates Exhibition Place. The west end of the grounds is the original site of exhibitions and the oldest buildings are located here. There are five purpose-built fair buildings designed by architect G.

Just south of Dufferin Gate is Centennial Square, a green space with a bandstand. The Ontario Government Building was added later in The Bandshell, modeled after the famed Art Deco Hollywood Bowl was built in , replacing a bandstand. North of the Bandshell is Bandshell Park, a large open green space for gatherings. Near the Bandshell is the s Scadding Cabin , the only building dating to the inaugural exhibition. To the west of Bandshell park, the former International Building site is now a parking lot, and there is a parking lot in the north-west corner of the site.

The central block contains more recent s buildings, which are all replacements for earlier buildings, and are larger than the buildings to the west: the Better Living Centre exhibition space , the Queen Elizabeth Building complex theatre, exhibition and administration sections and the Food Building. South of BMO Field is a large open parking lot and midway area. The CNE plans to make the area a public square, and move the parking underground. South of the central section are two pedestrian bridges over Lake Shore Boulevard to the Ontario Place complex.

The east block was the most active area of military usage and retains the only military building left on the site, the Stanley Barracks Officers' Quarters, dating to the s. The area is a mix of buildings, including the older Coliseum, Horse Palace and newer buildings. The section is dominated by the exhibition complex of the Enercare Centre, Coliseum and the Industry Building. The Horse Palace which adjoins the Coliseum and is used for equine shows and quartering , the Automotive Building which was once used for car shows and is now a conference centre and the General Services Building are all older exhibition buildings dating from the s.

The new "Hotel X" project includes a display of foundations of New Fort York which once occupied part of the site. Sports venues[ edit ] Exhibition Place was also home to Exhibition Stadium , which was built out of the fourth Grandstand by adding two extra wings of seats. The original grandstand had been constructed in the late s and was re-modelled, replaced, or destroyed over the years.

The two teams left for SkyDome now Rogers Centre in After it lost many stadium concert tours to Rogers Centre, and many other outdoor concerts to the nearby Molson Amphitheatre at Ontario Place, its usefulness was at an end. The stadium was demolished in to serve as parking and allow a more sprawling midway.

Exhibition Stadium former stadium [ edit ] Main article: Exhibition Stadium Exterior of Exhibition Stadium in , several years before it was demolished. The CNE has been host to four grandstands since its inception. The third grandstand, designed by G. Gouinlock, was built in and had a capacity of 16, It burned down in , subsequently leading to the construction of the fourth known as CNE Grandstand , built in Designed by architects Marani and Morris, this building was the first of what would prove to be several Modernist buildings built on the CNE grounds, its distinctive and bold cantilevered truss roof dominating the grounds for over 50 years.

It initially housed 22, people, but was expanded over the years to a maximum of 54, in order to accommodate the additional seating required for major professional sports teams who made CNE Grandstand their home. It became the home base for the Toronto Argonauts football team, and later, to the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.

Architect Bill Sanford designed the alterations for baseball in In addition to sports, CNE Grandstand was the stage for many entertainers over the years. After the grandstand was demolished, open-air concerts during the CNE have been held at the Bandshell.

By that time it was recognized that the building was beginning to visibly decay, and was little used in its final decade of existence. Though it was the earliest of the modernist-style buildings on the grounds, it was the only one not to become a historically listed building.

It was finally demolished in The Hall of Fame building had been vacated by the Hockey Hall of Fame and was demolished to make way for the stadium. Capacity is approximately 31, people. It opened on April 28, , the start of the MLS season. It was expanded for the season and had a new roof installed for the season. In conjunction with the stadium construction, Princes' Boulevard was re-routed to the south of the stadium.

Price and renovated by Brisbin Brook Beynon, Architects. Its main entrance was originally to the north, and the building was remodelled with a Modernist facade main entrance to the south in The original facade was restored when the Enercare Centre was built. It is home to the minor league Toronto Marlies professional ice hockey team during the winter months. It has two basketball courts. The facility displaced some parkland, including a baseball diamond on the site used for a CNE tournament.

One of the Modernist buildings on the site, the original purpose of the Better Living Centre was to introduce new ranges of consumer goods to the baby boomer generation, making it a "space of encounter between consumer and product".

For many people attending the CNE, the building hosted their first encounters with such technologies as colour television , transistor radios or home computers. It also became the place where people would expect to see the latest models of various consumer goods, ranging from vacuum cleaners to kitchen appliances. The building's stark modernist architecture, made up of large white forms, a vast flat roof and harsh angles, suited its futurist themes.

The building was designed by architects Marani, Morris and Allan [19] and was opened by Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips on August 17, It was built on the former site of the Manufacturers' building, which burned down in The new building replaced the exhibit space of the Manufacturers' Building and the General Exhibit Building.

Instead, it has been divided in two. The building is used at other times of the year for special events. It hosts an indoor amusement park during March Break and a Hallowe'en exhibit "Screamers" during the month of October. The Enercare Centre , along Princes' Boulevard, has seven exhibit halls with 1,, square feet 93, m2 of space. It is interconnected with the Coca-Cola Coliseum and the Industry Building to the north to provide one large, configurable exhibition space.

During the exhibition, the building houses the international product displays and animal shows. It was designed by Richard A. At the main entrance and west entrance, bronze fish sculptures were created by Toronto artist Jean Horne in the reflecting pool [21] and an foot 24 m tall stainless steel pylon stands to the right of the main entrance. The structure is clad in brick and the roof is of a unique folded-plate cast-concrete design. The theatre, which has seats, has been used for radio, variety, and fashion shows and hosts stage productions and concerts.

The exhibition hall, which is a large uninterrupted exhibit space is used year-round and is home to arts, crafts, and hobbies displays during the CNE. It is not only the oldest building on the grounds, but the oldest building in Toronto. It was built by the Queen's York Rangers in on behalf of John Scadding , who served as clerk essentially, an executive assistant to the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada , John Graves Simcoe.

The original cabin was disassembled from its original site and rebuilt by the York Pioneers, along with an adjacent cabin made out of new logs, on the current site, just in time for the original Toronto Industrial Exhibition in Scadding Cabin is Toronto's oldest standing structure.

Erected in , it was moved to its present site in Scadding was given a plot of land from what is now just north of Gerrard Street East, south to the waterfront. Scadding sold the property in to William Smith. In , his son William Smith offered the cabin to the York Pioneers , a local historical society. Around this time, someone mistook the information concerning the original owner for the cabin, leading to it being erroneously called "The Governor Simcoe cabin". When he died in , the York Pioneers renamed it "The Scadding Cabin", in honour of this son of the original owner, who had also been a past president of their society.

It is a squat, two-storey log cabin with low ceilings, designed to retain the heat from the fire in winter close to its occupants. It is said that John Graves Simcoe, who was over 6 ft 1. The building as it now stands is little changed from its original construction. Apparently an additional 7 ft 2. The second cabin constructed next to it by the York Pioneers was built using wood that was too green, and it was demolished a few years after construction. Over the years some of the timbers have been replaced, and the cabin was remounted on a stone foundation in the late part of the 20th century.

Inside the cabin are furnishings appropriate to a house in Upper Canada in the s, and some known to have belonged to Simcoe. The Art-Deco bandshell was erected in The adjacent park is known as Bandshell Park. In the north-east corner is the Exhibition Place Carillon. At the north-side of the park is the "Garden of the Greek Gods" collection of sculptures. It is leased to the operator of the Mod Club in Toronto and it is used for concerts and shows throughout the year.

Named after Lord Dufferin , the original gate to the CNE grounds was named in his honour, situated at the bottom of Dufferin Street , also named after the same person. The original gateway was erected in , and was superseded by a more permanent, ornate Beaux-Arts style triumphal arch built in , and officially re-opened by Lord Dufferin in With the construction of Toronto's Gardiner Expressway in , the gates were demolished in order to make way for the roadway.

In their place a modernist-style parabolic arch was erected 50 ft 15 m south of the previous gates in , designed by architect Philip R. It is 65 ft 20 m high and spans 74 ft 23 m in width. It is similar in design to the much larger Gateway Arch in St.

Louis , Missouri , but predates it. The Gate is a listed heritage structure. The gates were built in the Beaux-Arts style to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Canadian Confederation and were originally to be called The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation Gates. The name was changed when it was found that the princes were touring Canada the year of its dedication.

It was a small palisaded fort with a bastion at each of its four corners, and containing five main buildings: a corps de garde, storeroom, barracks, blacksmithy, and a building for the officers. A drawing [32] purported to date from shows the fort adjacent to Lake Ontario, whereas today it is situated on top of a small hill a hundred metres or so from the lake's current shoreline.

The fort was abandoned and burned by the French garrison in July , who were retreating from invading English forces. Vestiges of the fort remained for many years afterwards, but the site was graded over and sodded in preparation for the establishment of the nearby Scadding Cabin in The grounds were excavated in and by the Toronto Historical Board , and again in by the Youth Committee of the Toronto Sesquicentennial Board. The outline of the original fort has been marked out in concrete around the obelisk.

Two commemorative plaques — one in English, and one in French — are attached to the base of the obelisk, placed there by the Ontario Heritage Foundation. For many years,[ when? They were removed[ when? This monument, depicting a winged angel holding aloft a crown of olive branches and standing upon a globe held aloft by female sphinxes , was presented to the people of Canada on June 12, by the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine better known as the Shriners as a symbol of peace and friendship between the United States and Canada.

It is also meant as "an ongoing reminder that Freemasonry actively promotes the ideals peace, harmony, and prosperity for all humankind".

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