Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame is a Canadian sports hall of fame and museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dedicated to the history of sports in Canada, it serves as a hall of fame and museum for accomplished Canadian athletes, and sports builders and officials.
Exterior facade of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame was first housed in Stanley Barracks in Toronto from 1955 to 1957
Ceremony for the inaugural members of the hall of fame's Order of Sport, October 2019
The building cantilevers 12 metres (39 ft) from the ground
Exhibition Place is a publicly owned mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197-acre (80 ha) site includes exhibit, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial, and national historic sites. The district's facilities are used year-round for exhibitions, trade shows, public and private functions, and sporting events.
The Princes' Gates are the eastern entrance of Exhibition Place.
View of Exhibition Place, looking west from the CN Tower in 2013. The site is situated in center distance, left (south) of the elevated freeway, starting immediately beyond the last tower block.
The Palace of Industry, designed after the Crystal Palace in London, was erected for the 1858 fair.
The Dufferin Gates were replaced with a more elaborate archway in 1910.