Canada
Revisited
April
and May 2006 by Peter Schinwald
Out on the Trans-Canada
Highway, with 7820 km the world's longest highway.
Big truck rolling by
("Kenworth" with moose bumper)
Travelling
with a rented car through the province of Ontario in Canada
The natural
beauty of northern Ontario:
Wilderness, the deep blue Canadian sky and countless dark blue lakes
Elliot Lake Fire Tower
Lookout
View from Elliot Lake
Fire Tower to
distant Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island.
A great experience -
driving into Toronto on the Gardiner Expressway
View of Downtown Toronto
from the CN Tower (553 m)
Built 1975 as the world's highest free standing structure
with the world's highest observation deck at 447 m
Rogers Centre (SkyDome
Stadium) and CN Tower (Stadium capacity 63000
persons - baseball, football and The Rolling Stones ...)
The retractable domed roof of the stadium can be completely opened
within 20 minutes.
Inside of Rogers Centre
(SkyDome) as viewed from the Hard Rock Cafe
Air
Canada Centre NHL
hockey games and concerts (summer 2006: Crosby Stills Nash &
Young)
Toronto City Hall
Eaton Centre,
Yonge Street, Toronto
Yonge Street - where the
action is.
("The longest street in the world")
Sam the Record Man on
Yonge Street in Toronto
(One of the biggest record shops in the world)
China Town in Toronto
Niagara Falls, southern Ontario
Flight AC 846, Boeing
767 - preparations for departure
Lester B. Pearson International Airport Toronto, Terminal 1
Toronto Skyline and Lake
Ontario
(Shortly
after take-off at
8:15 PM)