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A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. Illustration of a toboggan. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation.
6 February 2016 - In the early hours of the morning of 6 February, 8 teenagers broke into the Canada Olympic Park's track and, using toboggans, began a slide down from the Bobsleigh start. At turn 5, the teens struck a large track switching element that had been used to configure the track for Luge.
Longest toboggan of Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe Mecsextrém Park Pécs Coaster Wiegand 2010 1050m (Elevator 350m, Downlide 700m) 35m Sobri Jóska Élménypark Kislőd Coaster Wiegand 2012 1000m (Elevator 300m, Downslide 700m) 44m Oxygen Adrenalin Park Gyöngyös-Sástó Coaster Wiegand 2006 930m (Elevator 430m, Downslide 500m) 35m
The first form of summer toboggan was the alpine slide, which started in its present form in the 1970s. Josef Wiegand had envisioned the idea of creating a roller coaster ride for ski resorts that would take advantage of the topography of the land, rather than building a structure to create the elevation changes that traditional roller coasters required.
La Ronde (lit. ' The Round ') is an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.It was originally built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67, the 1967 world's fair.Today, it is operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, under an emphyteutic lease with the City of Montreal until 2065.
On the south end of the terrasse is a 150 metres (490 ft) ramp or Terrasse Dufferin Slides (c. 1898) used annually as a toboggan run during Quebec Winter Carnival or the Carnaval de Québec from late January to mid-February. [4]
Westview Park is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Colloquially known as Garbage Hill, [1] the recreational park's prominent hill was built upon a garbage dump.The park is one of a select number of off-leash dog parks in Winnipeg, as well as a toboggan hill in winter, and commonly used for skilling, snowshoeing, cycling, running, and walking.
Canada's Wonderland, formerly known as Paramount Canada's Wonderland, is a 330-acre (130 ha) amusement park located in Vaughan, Ontario, a municipality within the Greater Toronto Area. Opened in 1981 by the Taft Broadcasting Company and the Great-West Life Assurance Company , it was the first major theme park in Canada and remains the country's ...