The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Encompassing 287 hectares, the Toronto Zoo is the largest zoo in Canada averaging around 1.2 million visitors a year. The zoo is divided i
The main entrance to the Toronto Zoo in 2006
Stereo card of a goat at the Riverdale Zoo. Opened in 1888, the Riverdale Zoo was the predecessor to the modern Toronto Zoo. Riverdale Zoo later became a livestock zoo called Riverdale Farm.
The Toronto Zoo Domain Ride a year after it opened in 1977. Operating from 1976 to 1994, the "monorail" transported guests to various sections in the zoo.
In 2001, the Toronto Zoo opened an educational water play area known as Splash Island.
The Toronto Zoo Domain Ride was an automated guideway transit service used to carry visitors between sections, or "domains", of the Toronto Zoo. Though technologically closer to a simple rubber-tired
Toronto Zoo
…to their zoogeographic region. The old zoo was converted into an urban farm called Riverdale Farm, which opened in 1978. In 1976, the Zoo opened the Canadian Domain Ride, a monorail-like automated guideway transit service that travelled into the Zoo's Canadian Domain area, located in the Rouge Valley. The ride's operations…
Details of the Dashaveyor's running gear are visible in this photo. The small horizontal wheels at the front steer the larger running wheels just visible behind them. The electrical supply uses a small 3rd rail shaped like a V with a pickup that pushes up on the bottom of it. The operator can also be seen in the front left of the cabin.
The Ruins of Weston Station in the Canadian Domain in May 2010.