Toronto Overview | An informative introduction to Toronto, Ontario

Toronto is a world-class city! It rivals Chicago as the best lakeside city on the planet. Toronto has been on my list of cities to make a video of for a long time but I wanted to make sure I did this incredible city justice. In this video I will briefly cover Toronto's history, population, skyline as well as a few things that make the city unique. Thanks for watching: Toronto Overview | An informative introduction to Toronto, Ontario.

*CORRECTIONS*
- I mention University of Pennsylvania as being a public university, which is incorrect. However, the fact that the University of Toronto would be ranked as the third best public university in the US is still true per the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The public university that I should have mentioned is UCLA.

If you enjoy short geography overviews, here is a link to one of the primary books that inspired me to make this channel:

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[laurabagley]

I had no idea how fascinating (or beautiful!) Toronto is! Worth the wait for this video 👏🏼👏🏼

[DonsaiRoadsOfficial]

Truly one of the greatest cities on earth

[GCubedProductions]

Beautiful city and well done tour of what makes it unique

[edwardwilcox]

I was raised north of Toronto & it was always a real treat for me to be taken to the city. There were many great places to get nice food, everyone was friendly & respectful, this at a time when the Royal York would have been the tallest builing! My family left Canada but I returned for a holiday in 1972 & was very impressed with the development of the down-town area with three new towers ( TD Centre & Montreal Bank tower ) the latter being very tall. There were still great places to see & to eat at particularly all the breakfast places all along Yonge Street, for me the city still had a great vibe that I remembered from the early sixties. While I`ve not been back for over twenty years & witnessed the colossal growth in that time I did visit in the late eighties & was disappointed it had lost some of it`s charm for me. This will be down to it going from small city to huge metropolis so was to be expected. I`ll bet Toronto is still one of the very best cities to live anywhere & I hope it continues to thrive.

[cFcingh]

Been patiently waiting for this video. You did not disappoint. Worldclass city with everything to offer.

[C-mac_in_the_ix]

Great video and thanks for doing this. One thing you got wrong was the height of the Skytower. It's going to be 344.9 meters not 308. We have another supertall going up right now called The One which is going to be 328.4. We also have 4 other buildings going up right now all around 300m. 👍👍

[Coltoid]

I would have included:
-The Art Gallery of Ontario
-Toronto is a transit city: Union Station, the intact/modern streetcar network, commuter rail, suburban bus, etc.
(Half the city doesn’t have a driver’s license)
-Cabbagetown (largest intact Victorian neighbourhood in North America),
-Also that Toronto has multiple downtowns (Downtown, Yorkville, Midtown, North York, Humber Bay, etc.)
-Toronto is the densest urban area in North America (St. James Town and The Entertainment District are currently battling it out for densest neighbourhood in North America).
-Also if you go wayyy out to the suburbs, you will notice the new neighbourhoods are extremely dense, this is because The Greater Toronto Area has a Greenbelt around it that limits its suburban sprawl and provincial policy.

[zteanalysisofcompanies]

I love Toronto, grew up a couple hours away in USA, incredibly youthful skyline but also unique! Great coverage. Id love to see videos on Chicago and Detroit when you have the time to cover!

[themasterjay]

I’ve been recently checkin out the huge construction boom of the city, and my lord there are so many buildings goin up in the city.

Toronto has one of the best beautiful Skylines in the entire North American Continent, in my opinion. It’s so cool how much it has changed within the last decade and how unique the skyline has become in its own Canadian Way

[AbdurRaheem]

In Canada our CMAs are used to track the urban built up area of a region only unlike American MSAs. The Greater Toronto Area, is only the urban built up area of the broader Greater Golden Horseshoe Region. If you were to do a 1:1 comparison based on that, Toronto’s “metro” population would’ve been 9.8 million in 2021, and is easily well over 10 million now

[davidpetersen]

Another wonderful addition to your growing Canadian city collection! If I had some ruby red slippers (like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz), I would tap them to transport to Toronto! But they say to wait a few years for the current building boom & skyscraper craze to subside. Another city channel ( the B1M) says there are close a hundred(!?) new buildings slated for construction in the skyscraper district. As you mention this will catapult Toronto ahead of beautiful Chicago. And yes, Chicago is on my MUST visit list as well. Thanks so much for another beautiful video. You are starting to receive some much deserved traffic to your channel. Such high quality does not go unnoticed for long! Bravo! 😎🥇⭐️♥️🏆🏙

[matthewjames]

Another insightful episode. Beautiful city. I'd love to visit there sometime soon 🍻

[chuckdavis]

I really like this guy's videos! 😊

[Journeys-travelwithme]

very nicely done and explained😊😊 liked👍👍 subscribed👍👍

[davidpetersen]

Hi there. Just a note to say we are Missing your channel for the past 3 weeks! Hope you do a new city soon. Hey, if you want an easy one, try Rochester, New York. So much history and interesting facts packed into this small city. You will love the list of companies that headquarters there. I was amazed. Nice little skyline as well. Anyway, we miss you City Geek! 😀⭐️👍🥇🏙

[spartanparty]

Could you do a video on Washington DC? It's got a really unique history, culture, and look to it with the height restrictions. So much about it is just.... different, but most people just think of it as the place the Government is.

Great video as always!

[fjcrod]

Thanks for the very kind words about my city. I've lived here long enough to see her blossom into what she is today.

[WilliamCrew]

Very nice!! I would love to visit this city one day.

[York]

One of the world’s greatest cities. I recommend a video on Ottawa

[NikoZguri-lz]

as someone who spent most of his childhood growing up in Toronto, this video is making me wanna go back