The Toronto Traveler

If you hold off much longer, it will be too late to make your way over to the One of a Kind Show and Sale happening over at Exhibition Place. More than just a room full of crafts, the show attracts over 200,000 visitors annually.
Here you’ll find a number of things to see (and purchase!) including items such as this beautiful scarf handcrafted by Anke Fox for Armstrong Fox Textiles. This year, the show theme is Holiday Windows, with special emphasis on their rapidly expanding Green section.
When
November 27th – December 7th, 2008
Weekdays 11am-10pm, Saturdays 10am-9pm, Sundays 10am-6pm
Where
Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition …read more

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Here are some more pictures for your viewing pleasure:
1) The Toronto Islands, from the Wikimedia Commons

2) Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto, from the Wikimedia Commons

3) Massey Hall in Toronto, from The Wikimedia Commons

4) The St. Lawrence Market, from The Wikimedia Commons

5) The Ontario College of Arts & Design, from The Wikimedia Commons

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Toronto, being a city of over 2 million people, is a city where a lot of arts and crafts go on.  Not only are students regularly practising their trades through art shows and other exhibitions, but there are also apprentice craftsmen who are doing the same thing but on a much larger scale.  With all of the arts and crafts that go on in this city, it has to be a good crafts show indeed that is able to break through the mold of the typical arts and crafts show and be thought of as an event that is worth …read more

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Shopping in a lot of places in Toronto is much more than just buying things; it is a community experience.  One of the best community experiences you are likely to get anywhere in North America is in the Scarborough Town Centre.  This is a collection of buildings that include government offices at all three levels of government (city, province, country), residential areas and of course the shopping centre that the name usually is referring to.
You can get a lot at Scarborough Town Centre.  Not only are there the larger department stores available for people looking to browse for general items, …read more

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