This has been on my bucket list since it opened in July. I bought tickets for the 3 PM slot on Thursday.
A warning up front, this is a photo heavy post and I had to control myself to 10 1316 photos per exhibit! I also made the Golden Horseshoe a separate exhibit.
Little Canada is a highly detailed and immersive miniature attraction that offers spectacular scenery, enveloping soundscapes, animated features, and moving cars, trains, and boats that all operate on a 15-minute day cycle; upon sunset thousands of tiny lights illuminate the display. The four seasons are also represented.
Guests can visit five destinations including Little Niagara, Little Toronto, Little Golden Horseshoe, Little Ottawa and Petit Québec. A sixth destination, Little North, is under construction.
We start out in Niagara, covering the Falls, Niagara Falls, the wine region and the town of Niagara on the Lake.
That chapel in the middle is the smallest church in the world, Living Water Wayside Chapel!! Hey, we've driven by but never stopped, another one for the bucket list.
Waiting for the GO train at Exhibition Station below the Gardiner.
The Golden Horseshoe is the most densely populated area of Ontario. In the earliest days of Ontario, the area was dotted with small towns and villages that served the vast farmland throughout Southern Ontario. In the second half of the twentieth century, rapid population and economic growth around Toronto and affordable car transport led industry and residents to move further into the country; towns and farmland were developed into residential suburbs, shopping centres, and business parks, all connected by a new network of roads and highways.
Burlington
Hamilton to see more of Hamilton click on Hamilton in the labels/tags below this post.
Founded in 1912, ArcelorMittal Dofasco is Canada's leading steel producer and a hallmark of advanced manufacturing in North America.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton - known to most as simply the AGH - is the region's oldest and largest public gallery.
The first Tim Horton's was in Hamilton.
Brantford
The Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre is down in the left corner.
Also on my bucket list is the Brantford home where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone on July 26, 1874.
On the road to London ON.
Also on the bucket list.
Sir Frederick Banting lived in this London home, located on Adelaide Street near Queens Ave, in 1920 and 1921. It's in that home where he thought of the idea that led to the discovery of insulin.
Moving on to Stratford.
Before Covid put a stop to so many things we would always see some theatre in Stratford.
OTTAWA ON the capital of Canada and the home of Parliament.
You can take a peek into the hotel rooms!
Ottawa is known for its spring tulip festival.
So far we have had summer, autumn and spring. Now to winter in Quebec.
Cabane à sucre
Pouring the maple syrup onto snow.
Ste. Anne de Beaupre
Montmorency Falls
Chateau Frontenac
We would never have noticed the pickpocket if one of the guides hadn't pointed it out.
Snow plow!
Waiting for the bus
OOPS a snowdoo accident.
Pushing the car up the hill.
Bonhomme is the official representative of the Québec Winter Carnival, white as snow, he wears a red tuque and arrow sash.
Car ferry from Levis QC
With the construction of Little North, guests will have the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Miniature Makers bring the little country to life.
I've never been to your country, but I feel like I have just had a four season tour of the most important places to visit, should I ever make it there. And all of it in miniature, too! Such incredible detail. I'm in total AWE. I first saw miniatures at the Chicago Art Museum, but this is so very much better and different. I am SO happy you took all the photos you did. This was a remarkable journey and one I thoroughly enjoyed.
Oh, Gill, you would love it. And they even have a railing for you to stand on so you can get a better view. It would be perfect for your grandkids! You could take photos of them beside the miniature in Little Toronto and then take them to the life size buildings.
It is weird seeing places I know rendered on a small scale like this.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great exhibition. NOTL is exactly as I remember it.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is exactly like NOTL!
DeleteSome one took lot of time to do these up. Such talent.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
I've never been to your country, but I feel like I have just had a four season tour of the most important places to visit, should I ever make it there. And all of it in miniature, too! Such incredible detail. I'm in total AWE. I first saw miniatures at the Chicago Art Museum, but this is so very much better and different. I am SO happy you took all the photos you did. This was a remarkable journey and one I thoroughly enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteGreat art and craft there! The movies used to use minatures for many sci-fi scenes, which have now changed to digital constructions. Another lost art.
ReplyDeletewhat a super exhibition, it would be work visiting. You find the neatest things to photograph.
ReplyDeleteOh, Gill, you would love it. And they even have a railing for you to stand on so you can get a better view. It would be perfect for your grandkids! You could take photos of them beside the miniature in Little Toronto and then take them to the life size buildings.
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