For a city with a metropolitan area population somewhere around five million, I don't find Toronto to have too many major attractions of historic or cultural significance. The city is mostly a modern one that has grown vastly over the last several decades with huge waves of immigration and its consolidation as the economic capital of Canada since the threat of Quebec separatism from the 1970s to the 1990s drove finance and industry from Montreal to Toronto.

One of Toronto’s significant attractions is Casa Loma, a huge Gothic Revival style mansion on a hill a few miles north of downtown that was built in early 1900s just before WWI for a wealthy financier named Henry Pellatt . Elaborate rooms and fanciful exterior make it one of fancier historic homes I’ve visited across the continent and also one of the most crowded. Most historic mansions only get a smattering of visitors, even those in big cities, but Casa Loma was mobbed with tourists.