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Planet Bowl is a large 48-lane AMF tenpin bowling alley in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the venue for tenpin bowling for the 2015 Pan American Games after a change in site from Classic Bowl in Mississauga. [1] The centre, located in the Etobicoke district, is one of the largest in Toronto area with 48 lanes. [2]
Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario , at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous.
The following is a list of community and recreation centres in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] The city operates 152 recreation centres across the city. [2] As part of the Toronto 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games, the Etobicoke Olympium [3] and the Toronto Track and Field Centre [4] will be closed, renovated, and will reopen on September 2, 2014.
The St. Clair location housed seven badminton courts, several five-pin bowling lanes, a swimming pool and two squash courts in addition to curling, skating, lawn bowling and tennis. The fourth club home was opened in 1972 on a 22-acre site on Bayview Avenue north of Lawrence Avenue in the Bridle Path district, bordering on the Don Valley ...
Toronto also hosted a series of NCAA football bowl games called the International Bowl between 2007 and 2010. Toronto was granted an expansion team in the women's Lingerie Football League (now the Legends Football League), the Toronto Triumph. The team played their games at the Ricoh Coliseum for one season in 2011–12.
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Ryan moved to Toronto at age 18. He is said to have been a baseball pitcher good enough for a professional offer, although the details are sketchy. Ryan had been running a pool hall on Yonge Street and in November 1905 co-founded the Toronto Bowling Club above a store at Yonge and Temperance Street. Ten-pin bowling had ...
These include a number of restaurants, the Scotiabank Theatre, a bowling alley, [7] CTV Queen Street, the National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque, [8] and the former location of the Circa nightclub, once the largest of the clubs in the entertainment district. [9] North of Queen Street, John Street narrows further to two lanes.
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. ... an elevator, secret passages, and a bowling alley. ...