Fort York National Historic Site

Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory Toronto is home to the Toronto Maple Leafs one of the National Hockey League's Original Six clubs and has also served as home to the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1958 the city had a rich history of ice hockey championships Along with the Maple Leafs' 13 Stanley Cup titles the Toronto Marlboros and St Michael's College School-based Ontario Hockey League teams combined have won a record 12 Memorial Cup titles the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League also play in Toronto at Coca-Cola Coliseum and are the farm team for the Maple Leafs The Toronto Blue Jays host the Detroit Tigers at the Rogers Centre in April 2008 The city is home to the Toronto Blue Jays professional baseball team of Major League Baseball (MLB) the team has won two World Series titles (1992 1993) the Blue Jays play their home games at the Rogers Centre in the downtown core Toronto has a long history of minor-league professional baseball dating back to the 1800s culminating in the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team whose owner first proposed an MLB team for Toronto The Toronto Raptors entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1995 and have since earned eleven playoff spots and five Atlantic Division titles in 24 seasons They won their inaugural NBA title in 2019 the Raptors are the only NBA team with their own television channel NBA TV Canada They and the Maple Leafs play their home games at the Scotiabank Arena in 2016 Toronto hosted the 65th NBA All-Star game the first to be held outside the United States The city is represented in the Canadian Football League by the Toronto Argonauts who have won 17 Grey Cup titles and play in BMO Field Toronto is represented in Major League Soccer by the Toronto FC who have won six Canadian Championship titles as well as the MLS Cup in 2017 They share BMO Field with the Toronto Argonauts Toronto has a high level of participation in soccer across the city at several smaller stadiums and fields Toronto FC entered the league as an expansion team BMO Field is an outdoor stadium that is home to the CFL's Toronto Argonauts and MLS's Toronto FC The Toronto Rock is the city's National Lacrosse League team They won five National Lacrosse League Cup titles in seven years in the late 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century appearing in an NLL record five straight championship games from 1999 to 2003 and are first all-time in the number of Champion's Cups won the Rock share the Scotiabank Arena with the Maple Leafs and the Raptors Toronto has hosted several National Football League exhibition games at the Rogers Centre Ted Rogers leased the Buffalo Bills from Ralph Wilson for the purposes of having the Bills play eight home games in the city between 2008 and 2013 The Toronto Wolfpack became Canada's first professional rugby league team and the world's first transatlantic professional sports team when they began play in the Rugby Football League's League One competition in 2017 Toronto is home to the Toronto Rush a semi-professional ultimate team that competes in the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL). Ultimate (disc) in Canada has its beginning roots in Toronto with 3300 players competing annually in the Toronto Ultimate Club (League) Collegiate sports; .

The Normal School on Gould St 1856 Bayview Glen School Completed in 1848 St Michael's Cathedral is one of many examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Toronto One of the most common institutions in Toronto are the large number of churches and other houses of worship in the 19th and early 20th century Toronto was home to a wide array of Christian denominations each of which erected a wide array of churches in what is today central Toronto Over time the decrease in population in the core and the move away from mainline denominations has seen many of these churches disappear Many still remain and they are some of the more notable buildings in the city While some very early churches were in the Georgian style Gothic Revival became the dominant Gothic Revival was used for essentially all major Protestant churches in Toronto up until the early 1950s Roman Catholic churches were also most often Gothic though Italianate and Baroque churches were also erected the coming of modernism caused churches of all denominations to move away from the Gothic and embrace modernist architecture with a wide array of designs These are the typical church style found in the suburbs that were created after the Second World War Toronto has had an important Jewish community since the late 19th century Originally several synagogues were erected in the downtown and a handful survive today After the Second World War the Jewish community recentred upon the Bathurst Street corridor During the late 20th century and the early 21st century a wide number of other religious groups have grown to considerable numbers in Toronto and constructed traditional religious structures in the city Several mosques as well as Buddhist and Hindu temples have been built One of the most notable is the Hindu BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Toronto which opened in the northwest of the city in 2007 Cultural architecture. .