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Toronto has the largest variety of theatres and performing arts companies in Ontario, and the second largest in North America after New York. Dozens more fine theatres operate throughout the province. Seasonal festivals, like the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival and those theatres promoted by the Association of Summer Theatres 'Round Ontario draw crowds from across Canada and the United States.

Ontario also has well known art galleries, like the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg. In many other cities, regional galleries house fine collections and host travelling exhibitions.

 
 
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Did you know?

  • Sir Fredrick Banting, who won a Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin, was born in Alliston, Ontario.

  • Heart valves were transplanted for the first time worldwide in Toronto in 1956.

  • The world’s first successful double lung transplant occurred in Toronto in 1986.

  • Ontario is one of the most multicultural societies on earth. Half of all immigrants to Canada settle in Ontario; of those, half live outside Toronto.

 
 
 
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