Queen's Park (Toronto)
Queen's Park is a park in the Canadian city of Toronto. It was opened in 1860 by Edward, Prince of Wales and is named in honor of Queen Victoria. In the middle of the park is the Parliament building of Ontario. The term Queen's Park, the provincial government is circumscribed in terms of metonymy. Although the terrain is part of the University of Toronto, but was in 1859 for a period of 999 years, leased to the provincial government for the symbolic price of one dollar per year.
Description
The north of Wellesley Street location of the park is designed as an English landscape garden, overlooked by tall trees that provide shade in the summer. Several footpaths lead radiate at an equestrian statue of Edward VII, which is located on a small hill in the middle. In 1911 created statue once stood in the Indian capital New Delhi, but was then removed there in 1969 and brought as a gift to Canada. The north-south main road runs between the statue and the war memorial of the 48th Highlanders at the top of the park. In the northern part of the park, the official gun salute fired traditionally; on Victoria Day (May 24 ), on Canada Day ( July 1) and on Remembrance Day ( November 11).
In the southern part of the park is the 1893 completed Ontario Parliament Buildings, the seat of the Legislative Assembly and the Vice Governor of the Province of Ontario. Here are also numerous statues and monuments that remind of famous people and events in Canadian history: George Brown ( influential publishers), King Edward VII, John Macdonald ( First Prime Minister of Canada ), John Sandfield Macdonald ( First Prime Minister of Ontario ), William Lyon Mackenzie ( leader of the upper Canada rebellion ), Oliver Mowat (third Prime Minister of Ontario ), North-West rebellion, John Graves Simcoe (first Lieutenant Governor of upper Canada ), Queen Victoria, James Whitney (sixth Prime Minister of Ontario ), Veterans Memorial, police Memorial, volunteer Monument, Al Purdy ( poet ). In addition, honors a rose garden Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen's Park has roughly an oval shape. However, he has a small kink in the southwest inward. This corresponds to the previous course of the stream Taddle Creek, which in 1886 covered. The surrounding properties are almost all owned by the University of Toronto. In the vicinity are the Royal Ontario Museum and the Gardiner Museum.
Traffic
The park is surrounded by the streets of Queen's Park Crescent East and Queen's Park Crescent West. They form part of a major north-south transport corridor, consisting of University Avenue, Queen's Park and Avenue Road. About Queen 's Park Crescent East leads the traffic in the north, via Queen's Park Crescent West of those in the south. Both roads are interconnected and form a roundabout counterclockwise around the entire park. The Wellesley Street crosses the park slightly north of the center of the oval.
Under the Park Yonge - University - Spadina line of the Toronto Subway runs; the nearest stations are Museum in the north and Queen's Park in the south. There is a stop of the tram line on the latter ( intersection of University Avenue and College Street ) 506