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Central Park Toronto style?

I never would have believed that I could come close to the sense of relaxed wellbeing I associate with the Greek Islands as a city dweller!

Originally a sandbar, the Toronto Islands were Ojibwa sacred land – a way has yet to be established to honour this history in today’s Canada.  Toronto’s city fathers acquired title to the land from the Federal Government  in 1867 to provide Toronto with its own playground to rival New York’s Central Park.

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