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Queen's Park (Toronto)

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Queen's Park is an urban park in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]

63 relations: Al Purdy, Avenue Road, Battle of Ridgeway, Bloor Street, Canada Day, Charles Bell Birch, Church and Wellesley, College Street (Toronto), Crimean War, Delhi, Delhi Durbar, Downtown Toronto, Edward VII, Elizabeth II, Enclave and exclave, Equestrian statue, Gardiner Museum, George Brown (Canadian politician), Golden jubilee, Government of Ontario, Hamilton MacCarthy, India, James Whitney, John A. Macdonald, John Graves Simcoe, John Sandfield Macdonald, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Line 1 Yonge–University, Mario Raggi, Metonymy, Monarchy in Ontario, Municipal government of Toronto, Museum station, Oliver Mowat, Ontario, Ontario Legislative Building, Ontario Veterans' Memorial, Ottawa, Parliament Hill, Public transport, Queen Victoria, Queen's Park station (Toronto), Remembrance Day, Royal Ontario Museum, Sidewalk, Silver jubilee, Taddle Creek, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Thomas Brock, Toronto, ..., Toronto streetcar system, Toronto subway, Toronto Transit Commission bus system, United Kingdom, University Avenue (Toronto), University of Toronto, Urban park, Victoria Day, Walter Seymour Allward, War memorial, William Lyon Mackenzie, 48th Highlanders of Canada, 506 Carlton. Expand index (13 more) »

Al Purdy

Alfred Wellington Purdy, (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet.

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Avenue Road

Avenue Road is a major north-south street in Toronto, Ontario.

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Battle of Ridgeway

The Battle of Ridgeway (sometimes the Battle of Lime Ridge or Limestone Ridge) was fought in the vicinity of the town of Fort Erie across the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York, near the village of Ridgeway, Canada West, currently Ontario, Canada, on June 2, 1866, between Canadian troops and an irregular army of Irish-American invaders, the Fenians.

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Bloor Street

Bloor Street is a major east–west residential and commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Canada Day

Canada Day (Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada.

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Charles Bell Birch

Charles Bell Birch (September 28, 1832 – October 16, 1893) was an English sculptor.

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Church and Wellesley

Church and Wellesley is an LGBT-oriented enclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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College Street (Toronto)

College Street is a principal arterial thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Canada, connecting former streetcar suburbs in the west with the city centre.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Delhi Durbar

The Delhi Durbar (दिल्ली दरबार, دہلی دربار), meaning "Court of Delhi", was an Indian imperial style mass assembly organised by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India.

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Downtown Toronto

Downtown Toronto is the city centre and main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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Equestrian statue

An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin "eques", meaning "knight", deriving from "equus", meaning "horse".

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Gardiner Museum

The Gardiner Museum is Canada's national ceramics museum.

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George Brown (Canadian politician)

George Brown (November 29, 1818 – May 9, 1880) was a Scottish-Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation; attended the Charlottetown (September 1864) and Quebec (October 1864) conferences.

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Golden jubilee

A golden jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.

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Government of Ontario

The Government of Ontario (Gouvernement de l'Ontario), formally Her Majesty's Government of Ontario (Gouvernement de l’Ontario de Sa Majesté), is the provincial government of the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Hamilton MacCarthy

Hamilton Thomas Carlton Plantagenet MacCarthy (28 July 1846 – 24 October 1939) was one of the earliest masters of monumental bronze sculpture in Canada.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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James Whitney

Sir James Pliny Whitney, KCMG (October 2, 1843 – September 25, 1914) was a Canadian politician in the province of Ontario.

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John A. Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891).

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John Graves Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior.

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John Sandfield Macdonald

John Sandfield Macdonald, (December 12, 1812 – June 1, 1872) was the Premier of the Province of Canada from 1862 to 1864, and was the first Premier of Ontario from 1867 to 1871, one of the four founding provinces created at the confederation of Canada in 1867.

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Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is one of two components of the Legislature of Ontario (also known as the Parliament of Ontario), the other being the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

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Line 1 Yonge–University

Line 1 Yonge–University is the oldest and busiest line of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mario Raggi

Mario Raggi (1821–1907) was an Italian sculptor who settled in England.

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Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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Monarchy in Ontario

By the arrangements of the Canadian federation, Canada's monarchy operates in Ontario as the core of the province's Westminster-style parliamentary democracy.

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Municipal government of Toronto

The municipal government of Toronto, corporately known as the City of Toronto, is a public corporation providing services to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Museum station

Museum is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Oliver Mowat

Sir Oliver Mowat, (July 22, 1820 – April 19, 1903) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Liberal Party leader.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ontario Legislative Building

The Ontario Legislative Building (L'édifice de l'Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is a structure in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Ontario Veterans' Memorial

Ontario Veterans' War Memorial is a granite wall located on the front south lawn of Queen's Park in Toronto Ontario.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Parliament Hill

Parliament Hill (Colline du Parlement), colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Queen's Park station (Toronto)

Queen's Park is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

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Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM, Musée royal de l'Ontario) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Sidewalk

A sidewalk (American English) or pavement (British English), also known as a footpath or footway, is a path along the side of a road.

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Silver jubilee

Silver jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary.

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Taddle Creek

Taddle Creek is a buried stream in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that flowed a southeasterly course about six kilometres long, from St.

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The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada is a Primary Reserve regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces, based in Toronto.

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Thomas Brock

Sir Thomas Brock (Worcester 1 March 1847 – 22 August 1922 London) was an English sculptor, and medallist, whose works include the monument to Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto streetcar system

The Toronto streetcar system is a network of eleven streetcar routes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

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Toronto subway

The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

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Toronto Transit Commission bus system

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) uses buses and other vehicles for public transportation.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University Avenue (Toronto)

University Avenue is a major north–south road in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Urban park

An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places to offer recreation and green space to residents of, and visitors to, the municipality.

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Victoria Day

Victoria Day (Fête de la Reine, or "Celebration of the Queen") is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday preceding May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday.

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Walter Seymour Allward

Walter Seymour Allward, (18 November 1876 – 24 April 1955) was a Canadian monumental sculptor widely praised for his "original sense of spatial composition, his mastery of the classical form and his brilliant craftsmanship." Allward's 1917 heroic monument, the Bell Telephone Memorial, has been seen as the finest example of his early works.

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War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

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William Lyon Mackenzie

William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 – August 28, 1861) was a Scottish-Canadian-American journalist and politician.

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48th Highlanders of Canada

The 48th Highlanders of Canada is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve (i.e., part-time militia) infantry regiment based in Toronto, parading out of Moss Park Armoury.

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506 Carlton

The 506 Carlton is a streetcar route run by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Park_(Toronto)

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