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Casa Loma (Spanish for "Hill House") is a Gothic Revival castle-style mansion and garden in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a historic house museum and landmark. It was constructed from 1911 to 1914 as a residence for financier Sir Henry Pellatt. The architect was E. J. Lennox, [1] who designed several other city landmarks.
Little Canada, previously known as Our Home and Miniature Land, [1] is a tourist attraction located in the basement of The Tenor, near Yonge–Dundas Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its entrance is located next to Dollarama and across from both an entrance to Dundas station of the Toronto subway and The Beer Store .
Leon's Furniture Ltd. (TSX: LNF) (Meubles Léon Limité in Quebec) is a Canadian furniture retailer which first opened its store in 1909 in Welland, Ontario. The controlling interest in the company is owned by the Leon family, while some shares are traded publicly on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company has stores in all provinces of Canada. [4]
"Future Options for Casa Loma", Toronto, Casa Loma Corporation, 2012, 115 p., p. 13; Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Canada's Castles, National Historic Sites of Canada (retrieved October 19, 2013)
In 1975 it acquired the Bad Boy Furniture chain of 40 stores in Toronto, Ontario area. [5] Absorbed into The Brick, the rights to the Bad Boy Furniture name was lapsed and later revived by Lastman family in 1991. In March 2004, the company acquired United Furniture Warehouse which had 81 locations throughout Canada at the time. [6]
Castle Fun Park is an amusement park located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, by the Trans-Canada Highway. [1] The park is built like a castle resembling medieval architecture and includes many attractions and arcade games.
Upon his arrival in Upper Canada in 1792, he used one of the buildings at Navy Hall in Niagara-on-the-Lake as a residence, [2] sharing the space with Upper Canada’s legislature. [3] When Simcoe moved the colonial capital to York (present-day Toronto) in 1793, he built a summer residence, Castle Frank, north of the settlement in 1794. [4]
Nienkämper is a furniture manufacturer founded by Klaus Nienkämper in 1968. The North American company operates a 120,000-square-foot factory in Toronto's east end that produces furniture for office, residential, institutional and hospitality applications with showrooms in Toronto, New York, Chicago and Dallas. [1]