Dufferin Gate Loop, also known as Dufferin Loop, is a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus station and turning loop for streetcars near the southern end of Dufferin Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. During the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), the loop becomes a primary access point for visitors entering Exhibition Place via the Dufferin Gates. This west entrance to the CNE can be reached by the Dufferin Street bridges across the Lakeshore West railway corridor and Gardiner Expressway.
Dufferin Gate Loop
Old dispatch tower c. 1920
29 Dufferin and 193 Exhibition Rocket buses northbound
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.