Attractions Visited

This list only covers the last four and one half years. It gives you an idea of the scope of our program of educational events. It is exclusively available to only our members and is an excellent reason for local guides to belong to CTGA. The opportunity to become familiar with so many attractions makes us better guides. The opportunity to get together with other guiding professionals creates networking opportunities and is also just plain fun.

Here is what we have visited recently (4 1/2 years) and it does not include our Nancy Ross Honsberger Evening or International Tourist Guide Day activities which can be counted on to be educational as well:

1. The Canoe Museum, Peterborough

2. Whetung Ojibwa Centre, Curve Lake Reserve

3. Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto

4. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto

5. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Toronto

6. Gretzky's Restaurant, Toronto

7. 48th Highlanders Museum, Toronto

8. RiverBrink Gallery, home of the Samuel Weir Collection (Canadiana), Queenston

9. Duke of Richmond Pub, Toronto

10. Cabbagetown, well-preserved heritage neighbourhood, Toronto

11. Spadina Neighbourhood, Today's Chinatown, Yesterday's Jewish Centre, Toronto

12. Riverdale Farm, a real farm in the middle of one of Toronto's oldest and largest parks, Toronto

13. The Necropolis, historic cemetery, Toronto

14. Toronto Islands Park

15. Little Trinity Church, the city's oldest standing church, Toronto

16. Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, the city's first non-private elementary school, Toronto

17. Leaskdale Manse, home where famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote 11 of her 22 books, Uxbridge

18. Uxbridge-Scott Museum, museum and archives with displays on Lucy Maud Montgomery and the Oak Ridges Moraine (an important geological feature north of Toronto), Uxbridge

19. Terminal 1, the newest terminal at Pearson International Airport, Toronto

20. Plaza Flamingo, a lively Spanish restaurant where we met members of the local Spanish community, Toronto

21. Niagara Falls Aviary, Niagara Falls

22. Table Rock Restaurant, Niagara Falls

23. Historic Fort George, Niagara-on-the-Lake

24. Kanata Iroquoian Village, Brantford

25. Bell Homestead, Family Home of Melville Bell and his family including son Alexander Graham Bell, Brantford

26. Sculpture Walk, a walking tour of the street sculptures of the city centre, Toronto

27. Overdraught Irish Pub, Toronto

28. St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto

29. Hot House Café, Toronto

30. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto

31. "The Underground Railroad", film, Toronto

32. Gerrard India Bazaar Shops and Restaurants, Indian shopping neighbourhood of east central Toronto

33. Welland Canal Museum, St. Catherines

34. Historic Clarkson House, Restaurant, Lewiston, NY

35. Old Fort Niagara, historic French military establishment (later British, even later American), Youngstown, NY

36. Doon Heritage Crossroads, historic museum and village in nearby Waterloo Region

37. Woodside, boyhood home of William Lyon Mackenzie King, former Prime Minister of Canada, Kitchener

38. Cambridge Visitor and Business Information Centre, Cambridge

39. St. Lawrence Neighborhood Tour with Bruce Bell, tour of Toronto's oldest neighbourrhod with an expert to guide us

40. King Township, a visit to the towns, villages, churches, museums and shops of still fairly rural King Township, north of Toronto
     

... and we probably forgot a few.

All Toronto-area tour guides are invited to join in these activities. (Membership is required, of course.)
 

A tour guide's working agenda can include all manner of things: historic sites, sports venues, museums, churches, ... you name it! It is important to know them all and keep learning. Here we are getting a good-humoured lecture from a fellow guide at Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Through our events program, tour guides can learn about every aspect of the city. Our sculpture walk gave us a close-up on all the important "street sculptures" of central Toronto, including "Our Game", a celebration of Canada's favourite sport in front of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

The grey beard set thought they were through with school, but tour guides keep learning. This photo was taken on our visit to the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in the Corktown neighbourhood of old Toronto.