Enercare Centre
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Enercare Centre, formerly known as the Direct Energy Centre and originally the National Trade Centre, is an exhibition complex located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is used by the Canadian National Exhibition and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, as well as by various trade shows. In 2015, it hosted several sport competitions and the broadcasting centre for the 2015 Pan American Games.
Entrance on Princes' Boulevard
Volleyball at the exhibition centre during the 2015 Pan American Games.
The towers of the exhibition centre features four rotating spotlights.
The 2013 Honda Indy Toronto race, with the Enercare Centre in the background. During the event, the centre typically hosts exhibits for the Indy.
Exhibition Place
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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.