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Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 km² (247 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east. Toronto is the core of support for liberal causes like same-sex marriage and interventionist policies such as gun control in Ontario (and Canada), which puts it at odds sometimes with the rural and suburban areas, and even the rest of Canada (excluding Quebec) which are far more conservative. Toronto's climate is moderated by Lake Ontario; its climate is among the mildest in Canada east of the Rocky Mountain range. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto

Bregman, Sidney and Hamann, George Frederick Alone or in joint venture, the firm has designed over 2.8 million square metres of office accommodation, much of it in downtown Toronto: the Toronto Dominion Centre with John B. Associates; the EATON CENTRE with the ZEIDLER Partnership; Harbour Square; the Simpson Tower; and the 72-storey First Canadian Place. The partnership, founded in Toronto in 1953, is active across North America primarily in the design and construction of health-care facilities (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, and the Ottawa General Hospital) and of commercial and retail space. Sidney Bregman (b at Warsaw, Poland) and George Frederick Hamann (b at Toronto 14 June 1928), architects. thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000975

Ontario Science Centre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article In 1964 the famous Toronto (Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)) architect (Click link for more info and facts about Raymond Moriyama) Raymond Moriyama was hired to design the site. It is built down the side of a wooded ravine formed by one branch of the (A European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov) Don River. However construction was not complete in 1967, and the OSC did not open to the public until two years later, in 1969. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/On/Ontario_Science_Centre.htm

building.cfm?id=295 The Toronto-Dominion Centre is an important example of the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a leading international figure in 20th century architecture. Located on a granite-clad plaza, with small areas of grass, the core elements of the Toronto-Dominion Centre are the 56-storey Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower (1967), the single-storey Banking Pavilion (1968), and the 46-storey Royal Trust Tower (1969). The Toronto architectural firms of John B. Parkin Associates and Bregman and Hamann were the associate architects. www.doorsopen.org /building/building.cfm?id=295

Toronto jazz ambassador Oscar Peterson honoured by City of Toronto The City of Toronto thanks Cadillac Fairview, owners of the Toronto-Dominion Centre, for embracing the concept of the Naming Project and allowing the courtyard to be renamed Oscar Peterson Place. The purpose of the Naming Project is to honour notable artists and thinkers who have enriched Toronto by embedding their names in the fabric of the city. Today's event, produced by Toronto Culture, was the first in a series of Naming Projects initiated by Toronto's Poet Laureate Dennis Lee. wx.toronto.ca /inter/it/newsrel.nsf/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e/d885b8a5e49edc3085256ebb005c8cf0?OpenDocument

Toronto Dominion Centre - Featured Designs resemble all the signage in the Concourse of the Centre. The doors are frameless and hinged to the side. www.directional-designs.com /HtmlFiles/FDPage6.html

Toronto Dominion Bank Toronto Dominion started in 1955 with total assets of $1,132 million, deposits of $1,074 million and loans of $479 million. As at October 31, 1998, The Toronto-Dominion Bank was the fifth largest chartered bank in Canada in terms of total assets and on the basis of common shareholders' equity and the fourth largest bank in terms of market capitalization. The Toronto-Dominion Bank resulted from the amalgamation of The Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank on February 1, 1955. 207.112.114.52 /profiles/2445bodyid.html

DUKESOLUTIONS WINS $19 MILLION CONTRACT FOR CANADIAN LANDMARK The Toronto Dominion Centre is owned and managed by Cadillac Fairview, one of the larger owners, managers and developers in Canada and the United States, in partnership with the Toronto Dominion Bank. Charlotte – DukeSolutions will undertake a number of building and energy initiatives at the Toronto Dominion Centre, Canada’s largest office complex, as part of a $19 million (U.S.) contract announced today. At the heart of Toronto’s financial district at King and Bay streets, this 4.5 million square foot, mixed-use complex opened with one tower in 1967. www.duke-energy.com /news/releases/1999/Jul/1999071902.html

Toronto-Dominion Centre The Toronto Dominion Gallery of Inuit Art is located at the ground level in 79 Wellington Street West at the Toronto-Dominion Centre. The Toronto-Dominion Centre was the first development of major downtown office buildings in the City of Toronto. Joe Fafard’s sculpture entitled “The Pasture” consists of a herd of seven bronze cows lying peacefully on the lawn at the west side of the Toronto-Dominion Centre Courtyard. www.tdretail.ca /tourist

Striking cleaners fight for the basics in the heart of Toronto’s financial district Contact the Toronto-Dominion Centre General Manager Michael Miceli at 416-869-2273 or micelim@cadillacfairview.com and tell him to make sure his contractors treat their workers with respect. And the members of CUPE Local 2295 marched back to the picket line outside the Toronto-Dominion Centre that evening with renewed vigor after learning they had rejected the offer from Hurley Corporation by a margin of 2 to 1. TORONTO - CUPE members who clean the offices of Bay Street lawyers and wheeler-dealers marched proudly and noisily to the Ontario Labour Relations Board offices on February 26 to vote on their employer’s latest offer. www.cupe.ca /www/News/1595

:: EthicsCentre.ca :: Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy The Centre's roots go back to the mid nineteen eighties and the King Bay Chaplaincy, which operated from rented premises in the Toronto Dominion Centre in the midst of Toronto's financial district. The Centre was relocated to the historic George Brown House and the inaugural board was chaired by Tucker. As the scope of the Centre's initiatives expanded, it was seen to be important in an increasingly multi-cultural society, that the Centre be viewed as non-denominational. www.ethicscentre.ca /html/abtHistory.html

Toronto Dominion Centre Toronto by Mies van der Rohe The TD Centre was commissioned by Allen Lambert, the chairman of the Toronto Dominion Bank until his retirement in 1978. The TD Centre is located in the block surrounded by Wellington Street to the south, York Street to the West, Bay Street to the East and King Street to the north. The TD Centre consists of six towers: the Ernst and Young Tower, Royal Trust Tower, Canadian Pacific Tower, 95 Wellington, Maritime Life Tower, and the tallest of them all, the TD Bank Tower. www.galinsky.com /buildings/tdcentre

Ontario Heritage Foundation - HRH The Earl of Wessex unveils provincial plaque celebrating the Toronto-Dominion Centre TORONTO — His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex today unveiled an Ontario Heritage Foundation plaque celebrating the Toronto-Dominion Centre (TD Centre). The TD Centre is an important landmark that helped to stimulate the appetite for Modern architecture in Toronto's post-war construction boom. The TD Centre altered Toronto's cityscape and influenced the future design of many buildings throughout the country. www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_8218_1.html

Doors Open Toronto 2004 Toronto-Dominion Centre will open its Board Room, East and West Rooms on the 54th Floor of the TD Centre, and will provide public access to the Pavilion level of the TD Centre. The TD Centre was Toronto's first experience of Modern Movement urban design. Doors Open Toronto is a city-wide, free celebration that showcases over 150 buildings of architectural and historical significance. www.toronto.com /profile/858259?cslink=cs_attractions_2_8

CTV.ca - Toronto square, day dedicated to Oscar Peterson- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television The Toronto-Dominion Centre courtyard was renamed after the music great, who has lived in and around Toronto for almost 50 years. The dedication ceremony was followed by a private reception in the T.D. Centre Linkway with Peterson attending. The ceremony was accompanied by a performance by the Humber Studio Jazz Ensemble, organized by the Toronto Jazz Festival. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1087941461090_83350661?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory

B+H The Toronto-Dominion Centre was carried out in various joint ventures, except for the Aetna Tower for which Bregman + Hamann was the sole architect. B+H has overseen an asbestos abatement program, and upgrades to washrooms, elevator lobbies and office areas since 1986 on over 75 floors of the Centre's first three towers which were completed in 1967, 1968, and 1974. The historically-designated Toronto Stock Exchange building has been carefully integrated into the design of the Ernst+Young Tower. www.bharchitects.com /architecture/portfolio/comm-tdcentre.htm

Toronto Dominion The Toronto-Dominion Centre has six buildings: Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Royal Trust Tower, Canadian Pacific Tower, Maritime Life Tower, Ernst and Young Tower and 95 Wellington Street West. Toronto-Dominion Centre --> (It creates a weave pattern over the image galinsky description, photographs and visiting information for the Toronto Dominion Centre Toronto by Mies van der Rohe... colunn.com /4network/37/toronto-dominion.html

Soup Nutsy Canada - Press Release TORONTO, Ontario, May 11th, 1998 - Soup Nutsy Canada Inc. today announced the opening of its first Canadian restaurant, the Soup Market, located at the Concourse Level of 222 Bay Street which is the Ernst & Young Tower of the Toronto Dominion Centre in the heart of downtown Toronto. In addition to take-out or take-home, the downtown Toronto location plans to offer a delivery service to the surrounding office towers and provides a list of the daily selections over the worldwide web with online ordering in the future. The first Canadian location is also the prototype for franchising of the concept that the company plans to undertake. www.soupnutsy.ca /press.html

content1 Toronto is no stranger to having its built icons created by non-Torontonians — City Hall, the Toronto-Dominion Centre and now the Royal Ontario Museum. Worn out, dysfunctional, often abandoned, buildings across Canada are being reused: warehouses/factories as condos, office space and restaurants, bank branches as stores, old movie theatres as entertainment centres, even an old industrial gas plant as a police station. The completed projects, dealt with in two vastly different ways, reach the same conclusion: a much more livable environment for their occupants. www.building.ca /archive02/pgam02.htm

The Toronto Star : A bank's vaulting ambition; Chairman Alan Lambert wanted his head office to express Canada's centennial optimism Mies van der Rohe's TD Centre may be best expression of great architect's work, writ @ HighBeam Research Toronto witnessed the construction of the Toronto-Dominion Centre, a tall, dark, abstract form which became the most desirable office address in the country. Read 'The Toronto Star: A bank's vaulting ambition; Chairman Alan Lambert wanted his head office to express Canada's centennial optimism Mies van der Rohe's TD Centre may be best expression of great architect's work, writ' with a FREE Trial for instant access » Alan Lambert, then in his mid-40s, had been made chairman and president of the newly merged Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank in 1955. static.highbeam.com /t/thetorontostar/may202004/abanksvaultingambitionchairmanalanlambertwantedhis/index.html

Travel Channel :: Toronto The TD Centre's tallest building, the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, is 56 stories high. Inside the TD Centre's Aetna Tower is the Gallery of Inuit Art (79 Wellington St. W, PHONE: 416/982-8473; COST: Free; OPEN: Weekdays 8-6, weekends 10-4). Between 1937 and 1983 the DX (as it's now known) was the home of the Toronto Stock Exchange. travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/toronto/sightsacts_30994_1.html

Toronto Ontario. Toronto Canada City Guide and Yellow Pages. Toronto Restaurants, Art, Music, Real Estate, Weather, Maps. Toronto is filled with tourist attractions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Bata Shoe Museum, Black Creek Pioneer Village, Canada’s Walk of Fame, Casa Loma, Colborne Lodge, Centreville on Toronto Island, and the CN Tower. More hotspots are Ontario Place, Ontario Science Centre, Royal Ontario Museum, the Toronto Zoo, Yorkville, St. Lawrence Market, Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum, and the Scarborough Historical Museum. Toronto’s lodging facilities are Ambassador Inn, Gloucest Square Inns, Jarvis House, The Old Mill Inn, A Garden House, Annex Quest House, Banting House Inn, Bonneque Manor Bed and Breakfast, Burwood Inn, Castlegate Inn Bed and Breakfast, Cawthra Square Inn and Spa, Gardenview Bed and Breakfast, Lowther House and Palmerston Inn. www.HelloToronto.com

Picket lines go up at T-D Centre, Cleaners walk for fair wages, sick benefits The workers are picketing daily at the Toronto-Dominion Centre on Wellington Street, between Bay and York Streets. Toronto -- Cleaners in Towers 1 and 4 of the Toronto-Dominion Centre set up picket lines on Monday, February 17, 2003. There is currently a two-tier scheme, which allows some workers to accumulate sick days while others may apply for short-term disability only after losing three days to illness. ontario.cupe.ca /www/releases2003/13593

Architecture of the Toronto Dominion Centre - Winnipeg, Manitoba The Toronto Dominion Centre is also noted for a less-glamorous reason. Architecture of the Toronto Dominion Centre - Winnipeg, Manitoba At 32 stories, it is the largest in the city, and the tallest in Canada between Toronto and Calgary. www.glasssteelandstone.com /CA/MB/WinnipegTDCentre.html

programs There will also be a display about the construction of the TD Centre and "Opening Doors to Deep Time," an exhibit highlighting Toronto's first 10,000 years of history. Doors Open Toronto is a signature event of the City of Toronto Culture Division, presented in cooperation with Heritage Toronto. Hear about the building of the tower, Toronto's first significant modern structure, from some of the construction workers who worked on the project. www.heritagetoronto.org /programs/doors_open.htm

LAW: Member Firm: Aylesworth LLP We are proud of our standing and reputation in Toronto, Ontario, the commercial centre of Canada and one of the top five business centres in North America. The Aylesworth firm has been front and centre in the Canadian legal scene since 1861. Our offices at the intersection of King and Bay Streets are in the heart of Toronto's Business District. www.lawyersworldwide.com /firm.jsp?id=FRM_6

Contact Q9 Q9's Toronto office is located at the north-east corner of Wellington Street West and York Street, in the Canadian Pacific Tower of the Toronto-Dominion Centre. www.q9.com /contact

Toronto Visiting the City Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing Attractions & Landmarks Toronto Dominion Centre Gohop.ie Destination Guide It is also home to the Toronto Dominion Gallery of Inuit Art. At the very heart of Toronto's financial district, the five monolithic skyscrapers that make up this centre house the largest concentration of businesses in the country. Designed by renowned modernist architect Mies van der Rohe in 1967, the Toronto Bank Tower, rising 56 stories, is the centrepiece building of the group. gohop.wcities.com /en/record/150,120740/89/index.html

boldts.net - Toronto - View from TD Centre, 1970 When opened in 1967, the main tower of the Toronto-Dominion Centre was the tallest building in the British Commonwealth. The factories, warehouses, railroad sidings, and parking lots are largely gone now, replaced by many new buildings, such as Metro Hall, the Metro Convention Center North, Roy Thompson Hall, the Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), and the CBC Broadcast Centre. In the center foreground is the former postal building, which now houses the Air Canada Centre, home of the Maple Leafs and the Raptors. www.boldts.net /TorVw.shtml

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