Toronto: The World's Most Multicultural City 🇨🇦 | Solo Travel Vlog
Travel alongside me to Canada's largest and the world's most multicultural city - Toronto in my latest vlog, where I walk you immersively through the five senses (sights, sounds, tastes, feels, and smells) that make up the Toronto experience!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:41 The Urban Heart of Toronto
13:15 Experiencing Natural Toronto
18:31 The Tastes of Toronto
21:51 Niagara Falls
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Beautifully written and narrated. What a thoughtful and thorough visit to Toronto. We appreciate that. Became a subscriber. Best 🤸♂
Thank you so much!
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Anyone visiting Toronto should make the St Lawrence market their first stop for a lunch. Don’t fill up in one spot. Walk around, smell and try many different foods. Love that place and it’s always my first stop when I get to Toronto.
Was just there a few weeks ago and I totally agree. It was an awesome slice of so many different cultures. A great encapsulation of Toronto as a whole.
Fully agree!
One of the best travel logs I’ve ever seen. 👍
This is such a great compliment, thank you!
Always so much going on in Toronto on any given day. Lots to see and do!
Agreed!
I love your approach ---- giving us the sounds and the smells. Brilliant. You missed out on Cabbagetown, a neighbourhood with hundreds of beautiful Victorian-era houses on tree-shaded streets. This district is just a short walk from the downtown core, but it's a world apart. So much so that it has long had it's own flag (two green bars on each side of a green cabbage on white). It has one of the friendliest parks in town, where you see big family picnics, frolicking dogs, frisbee tossers aplenty, and a kids' zoo of farm animals ---- and a fantastic tobogganing hill with wonderful views. It's not far from a lively gay neighbourhood and scores of thickly populated apartment towers full of new immigrants, and an inner city university campus. There are dozens of novels set here, going back to the 1930s, and many writers and artists spent their childhoods in it, when it was considered a slum. The cabbage? In the 19th century, it was a rough and rowdy Irish Catholic neighborhood in a city run by dour Protestant Scots and prissy Anglicans. To the horror of the straight-laced elite, the poor Irish grew cabbages in their front yards instead of flowers. One of dozens of distinct and interesting neighbourhoods. But watch out for the raccoons! They'll grab your pizza slice.
Great work, we really enjoyed your impressions of Toronto!
Thank you! Toronto is such an awesome place.
Hope you enjoyed Toronto and revisit us again! We're definitely an up and coming growing, global city 🍁😎
Please visit Vancouver next! Thank you
Vancouver is the next Canadian city I plan to visit! 🎉🎊
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. Pretty good representation of the city. You at least mentioned that it is a city of neighbourhoods but I wish you would have shown some residential streets. Houses are a mix of styles with a lot of the houses ringing downtown built from 1905-1925. Craftsman, Edwardian styles are popular and most houses are brick. Toronto has a lot of semi-detached homes, which means two houses side by side attached in the middle. You were right in the Beaches neighbourhood. From their you could have walked west thru LeslieVille and Riverside (where you would have passed Degrassi Street). Walk north on Broadview passing thru Chinatown East and then the wester boundary of Riverdale. You would have see a wonderful view of Toronto from Riverdale Park East. When you go to the Danforth turn right to go east thru Greektown. Throuout this walk I’d go down a few side streets to see the beautiful urban homes built close together making for amazing communities. I’d recommend this walk for anybody visiting Toronto
Sharon from Philadelphia. I will watch your video at a better time. I love Toronto, it is my favorite city, privileged to have been there twice. I always say to people who are younger than I am, that if you are going to do any traveling, do it while you are younger, because you never know what thingd will be like when you get older. While I subscribed, I honestly don't know if I will be able to watch this, it brings back too many memories that are hard to deal with.
Great video Mike!
Thank you!
A great watch. Toronto looks beautiful this time of year. Keep em coming, from new sub❤️🙏
I do not think I have seen a better review of Toronto. Reminded me that I have to get out more, as I live in Toronto. Although I have seen and experienced everything you have shown, it perked my interest to go back to some spots again and soon. Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it! Definitely get back out there! It's always fun to be a tourist in your own town
Philly is tiny compared to Toronto. Toronto is most similar to Chicago. New York and Mexico City are on another level of urbanity. But in terms of dense, skyscraper filled, walkable cities in North America, I'd say NYC, Mexico City, Chicago and Toronto are the main ones. Toronto feels even bigger than LA just because LA doesn't have that big city, skyscraper feel to it, even in downtown LA.
Sharon, I'm from Philadelphia, agree with your comments. Toronto is my favorite city.
Interesting ❤
Great video!
this is amazing!! thank you for this! love love love Toronto!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Loved every minute in Toronto.
Excellent video.
Thanks a ton! Excited to return to Toronto one day for a deeper dive
@@asenseoftravel, you need to return and check out Toronto's Inner Suburbs (the boroughs of Norrh York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, East York, & York) for some more surprises (a science museum in North York and a zoo in Scarborough, lots of great ethnic restaurants in North York & Scarborough as well as Etobicoke), the Caribana festival/parade that happens in early August, the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) that happens late August, the Toronto International Film Festival in early September, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and last but not least, both Chinatowns and little India (as well as the Pacific Mall.)
Nice work man
Thank you! Cheers
Kensington Market is a must-visit.
One of my favorite markets on this side of the world for sure!
@@asenseoftravel I think you'd also enjoy The Distillery area. Maybe next time you're this way.
We should have an nfl team for sure
I was amazed that you pronounced “Toronto” like a local by leaving out the second “t”.
It's because I grew up in the southeastern US! We don't say "Atlanta" we say "Atlanna"
He was going in and out a lot though. Sometimes pronounces the 2nd T, sometimes doesn't.
Montreal used to be Canada's largest city when it hosted Expo 67.
Hi Michael, I'm en route to becoming like u. Can u mentor me?
Gay toronto was good,
Canadians also do another thing better: How to protect property owners at the expense of *everyone else*, including the future of youth.
I dont know why people are determined to insist that Toronto is bigger than Chicago. it isnt. never quote city proper populations because those lines can be drawn arbitrarily or long ago before a city had much of it's growth. up until 25 years ago, Toronto "proper" only had a population of about 800k... then the city decided to redraw the lines so it included it's closest suburbs. the Toronto Metro pop of about 6.5 million vs Chicago's 9 million is a far more true comparison. if you were talking about London, UK would you only quote the population of the 1 mile by 1 mile "City of London"? no of course not because it doesnt make any sense.
To me it really doesn't matter which is which. I've had the misfortune of driving though both way too many times.
The official cities are about the same size in sq km and Toronto has a little bit more people in that space. In the "Metro" area, yes, Chicago has more people but it also has a much larger space because the USA usually includes larger spaces in their Metro areas. ChicagoLand is 24,000 sq km and includes 9.4 million people, while the Greater Toronto Area is only 7,400 sq km and 6.7 million people. If we take the Golden Horseshoe as the Toronto metro then it is still only 10,000 sqkm (less than half of ChicagoLand) and has a population of 7.7 million people. So basically, the cities are very similar, and the appearance of Chicago seeming bigger is mostly because of the classification of US cities.
re architecture... Chicago's skyline and individual buildings far outshine Toronto's forest of banal low budget glass boxes that are simply copy and pasted dozens of times by the same 3-5 archit4ectural firms. you could probably count on one hand the number of top tier skyscrapers in Toronto, while Chicago would have dozens. you must be blind if you think they are super cool and innovative. look again closer. they are all literally glass boxes just with different glass or balcony patterns on them. it is the biggest joke of architecture I have seen anywhere in the world.
Insecure much? 😂😂
@@sid7088 insecure? its true, toronto is a soulless city
I will agree Toronto is a great city that has lost its way ...and after living there I will reiterate it is soulless
Is that why Toronto is expected to pass Chi in amount of skyscrapers and super talls as well ? This is expected to happen in the next 5-10 years.
not TO-RON-TO, you just say Tarrano
Poutine ? Is from french Canada not Toronto
If you had listened to what he said, you would have heard him say that Poutine is most commonly found in Quebec where it originated.
Isn't that what he said?
@@motr1912 Yes it was. The other guy didn't see that part
Calme toi!
@@deanjohnston4073 qui te dit que je suis pas calme????
Its also the most UnCanadian city in Canada 🇨🇦 😕
Multicultural? Hmmm i saw mostly punjabis when i went
Mexico City is not part of North America .. that's Central America.
Mexico is part of North America just look at NAFTA. Depending on where you learned geography. North America is usually separated from South America by Panama/Colombia border and Central America is the southern Mexican border to Colombia
@@jasonstevens2060 they added Mexico to NAFTA in order to get cheap labor. It was never considered part of North America when I was growing up .. that's why they aren't in NATO.
This really depends on how you're taught about the continents. In most of the English-speaking world, for example, North and South America are two continents, and Mexico is definitively a part of North America. In the Spanish speaking world, "America" is one continent, and Mexico would indeed fit into the region of Central America.
lol strong subway system? modern patchwork? LMAO,.....this city used to be so amazing - I was so proud of this city but things have gone downhill. every time I have been to scar bluffs - next week there is always a body being found there. Crime, expenses, traffic etc have gone up big time. Toronto is a city which is full of woke people now - you could literally fall down on the street in downtown and no one would give a crap. 401 is the most busiest hwy in the world. Takes are crazy, rent is crazy...good city to visit but then pls leave....not a city where you want to live in anymore.
"Canadians do urbanism better than Americans"... with the notable exceptions of NYC and Chicago (before they became Democrat bastions of crime and decay).
Most boring big western city
The biggest differences between Toronto and Chicago are social. T.O.'s crime-rate is a fraction of Chicago (handguns are illegal in Canada and it is not part of our culture to keep a gun in our homes). Canada has had an experiment over the past half century of welcoming immigrants, while encouraging them to not only become part of the country, but to hang on to old customs from home. This leads to fewer entrenched racial problems. 20:23 that is not a traditional butter tart; it looks like a small bun of some sort. Butter tarts have a bottom pie-pastry shell.
Interesting! I will say I thought it was interesting as well that Toronto was a place of refuge for formerly enslaved people throughout North America - I'm sure that's a large contributor to the welcoming, multicultural reputation.
@@asenseoftravel Definitely it was a hub for the Underground Railway which brought escaped slaves into Canada. The organizers were given a room to use for free in the St Lawrence Hall (which is still standing near St Lawrence Market) where they could plan ways to get people to freedom. Britain created anti-slavery laws in the 1790s just before the city of Toronto was founded in 1793. In fact anti-slavery legislation was passed in what is now Niagara on the Lake Ontario a few years earlier and is considered possibly the first anti-slavery legislation in the world. So we had no history of slavery here in Toronto. For the past 70 years Canada has experimented with a new type of multiculturalism which involved welcoming people as immigrants, but encouraging them to keep their old traditions and not lose them. The general feeling was immigrants should be proud of where they came from, and the diversity would make the fabric of the country richer. To a large extent it has worked well for us, as groups from around the world live together in relative harmony compared to many other places. Canada was influenced quite a bit by European politics, which is the reason why we have a Universal Health Care system, and very strict gun laws including outlawing handguns. Socially there is a different mindset then the USA, which is not always obvious to a visitor who just comes for a few days. Our two countries are the strongest allies in the world, but we do have differences! Hopefully you will come back to visit in the summertime!
Yeah we are told to leave our car keys inside our front doors so the home invaders can have easy access to our possessions. We punish victims here, and baby sit criminals!
Yes Toronto is diverse and that always seems to be a talking point, however, I find that those diverse communities like to stay within their own culture which in my opinion is a negative. Diversity, on its own when you dig deeper is not so great. Interaction between those diverse cultures would be fantastic but people like to be with those whom they have a cominality.