Metro Toronto Parks and Culture

Metro Toronto Parks and Culture was a department within the former Regional Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto .

The department was responsible for maintaining major parks and cultural sites around Metro Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Parks - now under Toronto Parks and Recreation

• Morningside Park
• Glen Rouge Park and stables
• Humber Bay Park
• Colonel Samuel Smith Park
• Sunnybrook Park and stables
• Toronto Islands and the Toronto Island ferries
• Bluffers Park
• Colonel Danforth Park
• Lower Don Parkland / Don Valley Brickworks
• Marie Curtis Park

Culture

• O'Keefe Centre - now the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
• Metro Toronto Zoo - now Toronto Zoo
• Black Creek Pioneer Village
• Toronto Heritage
• Exhibition Place - park used by the Canadian National Exhibition or "The Ex"
• Museums other than the Royal Ontario Museum, Bata Shoe Museum

Post Amalgamation[]

After 1997 these services under this department is now under Toronto Parks and Recreation.

References[]

• Toronto Parks
• "The Toronto Islands Then & Now: A guided tour through 200 years of history". The Content Shop. August 2006. Archived from the original (DVD) on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

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