Visitor Attractions in Ontario - Parliament Hill, Canada's Wonderland, Marineland, Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, African Lion Safari (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Parliament Hill, Canada's Wonderland, MarineLand, Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, African Lion Safari, Caesars Windsor, Crystal Beach, Ontario, Dundurn Castle, Skylon Tower, Konica Minolta Tower Centre, Christ Church Royal Chapel, Storyland, Mohawk Chapel, Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, Maple Leaf Village, Casino Rama, Calypso Park, Playdium, Casino Niagara, Bowmanville Zoo, OLG Casino Sault Ste. Marie, Great Blue Heron Casino, Soak City, Wild Water Kingdom, Splash Island, Logos Land, Centennial Conservatory. Excerpt: Canada's Wonderland is a 330-acre (130 ha) theme park located in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, a suburb directly north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park is open seasonally from May to October and contains more than 200 attractions. It opened in 1981 and was Canada's first major theme park. The park, when under the ownership of Paramount Parks from 1994 to 2006 was known as Paramount Canada's Wonderland. When sold to Cedar Fair in 2007, the park reverted to its original name. It was designed by Landscape Architects Richard Strong and Associates and structurally engineered by O.T. Baggio and Associates Professional Engineers. The park has been the most attended seasonal theme park in North America for numerous years in the 2000s. Almost every year in the decade the park's attendance had reached the 3 million mark, which has been slightly higher than the attendance figures in other major destination parks such as Kings Island, Knott's Berry Farm and Cedar Point. The park also holds the record for most roller coasters in a park outside of the United States with a total of 15. In 1972, the Taft Broadcasting Company headed by Kelly Robinson first proposed building a 330 acres (130 ha) theme park in the small village of Maple, part of Vaughan, Ontario. Several other possible locations were considered, includin...