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About Toronto Ontario Canada:
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Toronto has more than 125 art galleries and museums, including the Royal Ontario Museum with its extraordinary holdings of Asian art and the Art Gallery of Ontario, the eighth largest art museum in North America. Rounding out the Big Three public museums is the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg Ontario; housed in a grand log structure in the heart of a small woods are historic and indigenous Canadian art including works by Canada's revered Group of Seven painters. Back within the city limits are three superb special interest museums: the Bata Shoe Museum, 3,000 years of shoe history; the Textile Museum of Canada, known not only for its historic collection but also for innovative collaborations with contemporary artists, and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, pre-Columbian to the present. A freewheeling showcase for vanguard art, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery is known internationally as an influential conduit for new Canadian and international art.
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth-most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely-populated region in south-central Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe which is home to 8.1 million residents. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.
As Canada's economic capital, Toronto is considered a global city and is one of the top financial cities in the world. Toronto's leading economic sectors include finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace, transportation, media, arts, film, television production, publishing, software production, medical research, education, tourism and sports industries. The Toronto Stock Exchange, the world's seventh largest, is headquartered in the city, along with a majority of Canada's corporations.
Toronto's population is cosmopolitan and international, reflecting its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, as about 49 percent of the population were born outside of Canada. Because of the city's low crime rates, clean environment, generally high standard of living, and friendlier attitudes to diversity, Toronto is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey. In addition, Toronto was ranked as the most expensive Canadian city in which to live in 2006.
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