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Ontario Place

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Ontario Place is a park and former theme park in Toronto, Ontario. [1]

81 relations: B.B. King, Berm, Bruce Cockburn, Budweiser Stage, Canada, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, Canadian dollar, Canadian National Exhibition, Cinesphere, CNE Ontario Government Building, Copper sheathing, Counting Crows, CTV Television Network, Destroyer, Dizzy Gillespie, Dolores Claman, Doug and the Slugs, Downtown Toronto, Eberhard Zeidler, Eric McMillan, Exhibition Place, Expo 67, Geodesic dome, Glen Campbell, Government of Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, IMAX, International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, John Robarts, John Tory, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Lake freighter, Lake Ontario, Lighthouse (band), List of environmental ministries, Live Nation Entertainment, Luba (singer), Men Without Hats, Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (Ontario), Montreal, Municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Ontario Place, Our Lady Peace, Parks Canada, Pat Metheny, Paul Young, Platinum Blonde (band), Quality Records, ..., Red Rider, Request for information, Request for proposal, Robyn, Royal Ontario Museum, Saint Lawrence River, Sam Roberts, Seating capacity, Shell (theater), Sloan (band), St. Marys, Ontario, Teenage Head (band), Tensile structure, The Nylons, The Parachute Club, Theatre in the round, Tina Turner, Toronto, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Toronto Harbour Commission, Toronto Humane Society, Toronto Islands, Toronto Life, Trillium Park, University of Toronto, Venues of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games, Water park, Water skiing, World Wide Fund for Nature, 2015 Pan American Games, 2015 Parapan American Games. Expand index (31 more) »

B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Berm

A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier (usually made of compacted soil) separating two areas.

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Budweiser Stage

The Budweiser Stage, previously known as the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, is a concert venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum (Temple de la renommée du baseball canadien) is a museum located in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Canadian National Exhibition

The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Ex, is an annual event that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the 18 days leading up to and including Canadian Labour Day, the first Monday in September.

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Cinesphere

Cinesphere is the world’s first permanent IMAX movie theatre, located on the grounds of Ontario Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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CNE Ontario Government Building

The Ontario Government Building, housing the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex since 2001, is a heritage building located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Canada.

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Copper sheathing

Copper sheathing is the practice of protecting the under-water hull of a ship or boat from the corrosive effects of salt water and biofouling through the use of copper plates affixed to the outside of the hull.

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Counting Crows

Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network (commonly referred to as CTV) is an English-language broadcast television network in Canada launched in 1961.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Dolores Claman

Dolores Claman (born 6 July 1927) is a Canadian composer and pianist.

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Doug and the Slugs

Doug and the Slugs are a Canadian pop music group formed in 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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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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Eberhard Zeidler

Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler, (born January 11, 1926) is a German-Canadian architect.

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Eric McMillan

Eric McMillan, (born in Sheffield, England, in 1942) is a Canadian designer who began his career designing exhibitions.

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Exhibition Place

Exhibition Place is a publicly owned mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown.

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Expo 67

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967.

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Geodesic dome

A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.

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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, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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IMAX

IMAX is a system of high-resolution cameras, film formats and film projectors.

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International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions

The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) represents over 5,300 amusement-industry members in more than 100 countries worldwide and operates several global amusement-industry trade shows.

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John Robarts

John Parmenter Robarts, (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.

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John Tory

John Howard Tory, (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian politician who is the 65th and current Mayor of Toronto, in office since 2014.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Lake freighter

Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels that ply the Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lighthouse (band)

Lighthouse is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario.

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List of environmental ministries

An environmental ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for the environment and/or natural resources.

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Live Nation Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment is an American global entertainment company, formed from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster in 2010.

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Luba (singer)

Luba (born Lubomyra Kowalchyk (Любомира Ковальчук), April 24, 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist of Ukrainian descent.

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Men Without Hats

Men Without Hats are a Canadian new wave/synthpop group, originally from Montreal, Quebec.

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Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (Ontario)

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport was created on January 18, 2010 when the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Tourism were combined under one ministry.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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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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Ontario

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

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Ontario Place

Ontario Place is a park and former theme park in Toronto, Ontario.

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Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace (sometimes shortened to OLP) is a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

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Parks Canada

Parks Canada (Parcs Canada), also known as the Parks Canada Agency (Agence Parcs Canada), is an agency of the Government of Canada run by a chief executive who answers to the Minister of the Environment.

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Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Paul Young

Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Platinum Blonde (band)

Platinum Blonde is a Canadian new wave band formed in Toronto in 1980.

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Quality Records

Quality Records was a Canadian entertainment company which released music albums in Canada on behalf of American record labels, and also released recordings by Canadian artists.

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Red Rider

Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s.

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Request for information

A request for information (RFI) is a standard business process whose purpose is to collect written information about the capabilities of various suppliers.

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Request for proposal

A request for proposal (RFP) is a document that solicits proposal, often made through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service, or valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit business proposals.

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Robyn

Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer.

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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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Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.

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Sam Roberts

Sam Roberts (born October 2, 1974) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has released six albums and has been signed to Universal (Canada) since 2002.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Shell (theater)

In theater, a shell (also known as an acoustical shell, choral shell or bandshell) is a curved, hard surface designed to reflect sound towards an audience.

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Sloan (band)

Sloan is a Toronto-based rock/power pop quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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St. Marys, Ontario

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Teenage Head (band)

Teenage Head is a Canadian rock group from Hamilton, Ontario and was a popular Canadian punk rock band during the early 1980s.

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Tensile structure

A tensile structure is a construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending.

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The Nylons

The Nylons are an a cappella group founded in 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, best known for their covers of pop songs such as The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

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The Parachute Club

The Parachute Club was a Canadian band formed in Toronto in 1982.

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Theatre in the round

A theatre in the round, arena theatre or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and author.

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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 and Region Conservation Authority

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) or Office de protection de la nature de Toronto et de la région is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Harbour Commission

The Toronto Harbour Commission (THC) was a joint federal-municipal government agency based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Humane Society

The Toronto Humane Society is a Toronto charity that operates animal shelters and animal rescue operations.

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Toronto Islands

The Toronto Islands (formerly known as Island of Hiawatha and also known as Menecing, meaning "On the Island" in the Ojibwa language) are a chain of small islands in Lake Ontario, south of mainland Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Life

Toronto Life is a monthly magazine about entertainment, politics and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Trillium Park

Trillium Park is a provincial park within the City of Toronto but owned and operated by the Province of Ontario.

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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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Venues of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games

The 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games venues were mostly located in the host city of Toronto, Ontario, though some events required facilities located elsewhere.

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Water park

A water park or waterpark is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for bathing, swimming, and other barefoot environments.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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2015 Pan American Games

The 2015 Pan American Games, officially the XVII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 Pan-Am Games (Jeux panaméricains de 2015 à Toronto), were a major international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Pan American Games, as governed by Pan American Sports Organization (PASO).

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2015 Parapan American Games

The 2015 Parapan American Games, officially the V Pan American Games and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 ParaPan-Am Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities, celebrated in the tradition of the Parapan American Games as governed by the Americas Paralympic Committee, held from August 7 to 15, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Place

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