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Exhibition Stadium was the fourth stadium to be built on its site since 1879. [1] When the original grandstand was lost due to a fire in 1906, it was quickly rebuilt. [1] A second fire destroyed the stadium in April 1946, which led to the city constructing a covered north-side grandstand (known as CNE Grandstand) for CA$3.5 million in 1948.
Coca-Cola Coliseum (also or formerly known as CNE Coliseum, Royal Coliseum, Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto Coliseum, or Coliseum) is an arena at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, used for agricultural displays, ice hockey, and trade shows.
The JetLev is a water-propelled jet pack powered through a floater derived from jetski technology attached through an umbilical to the backpack which contains two nozzles and two control arms, in a configuration like traditional rocket belts and gas turbine jet belts. The JetLev also functions underwater, allowing users to dive into the water ...
Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss (Canada) aircraft operation in Toronto (opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes) at a 6-acre facility at 1244 Dufferin Street south of Dupont Avenue in April 1917. [1] The public company was run by Sir Frank Wilton Baillie, an industrialist and financier. [2]
Downsview Park station – north end, combined subway / commuter train station; Former tenants Canadian Air and Space Conservancy, formerly the Canadian Air and Space Museum, and the Toronto Aerospace Museum, and before that the original factory for de Havilland Aircraft of Canada (until 2012), now located at Edenvale Aerodrome [18]
Downsview is a neighbourhood in the north end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the district of North York.The area takes its name from the Downs View farm established around 1842 near the present-day intersection of Keele Street and Wilson Avenue. [2]
On 28 March 2022, the Government of Canada announced that the competition had placed the F-35A first and planned to buy 88 of them. Under procurement rules, the government entered into negotiations with Lockheed Martin. [35] On 9 January 2023, the government of Canada officially ordered 88 F-35As. [36] [37]
A third major aircraft manufacturer acquisition was the money-losing Boeing subsidiary, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada based in Toronto, Ontario, acquired in 1992. [2] [better source needed] Canadair, Learjet and Short Brothers cost US$ 215 million to acquire and produced revenues [clarification needed] of US$1.3 billion in 1990. [3]