Where in the city is the Canadiana Backpacker’s Inn located? Right downtown! That’s where!
The photo attached to this entry was taken on our front porch in the summer of 2010. You could step out of our front door, look to your right and see Toronto’s landmark CN Tower just 3 blocks south.
The building to the left of the tower is Phase One of the Festival Towers which adjoins the Bell Lightbox housing the HQ of the Toronto International Film Festival.
The hostel’s close relationship to the tower will soon be a thing of the past.
We are not moving. The Tower is not moving. It is just that the city is growing.
You see, phase two of the development of the centre of the “Entertainment District” (where we are located) will see the construction of another 45 story building of luxury condominium units.
They will place it right between the hostel and the tower!
We will still be on a quiet sidestreet although right in the middle of the city amid high rise condos and office buildings. But it will no longer be so obvious with the loss of the tower view.
Nonetheless, we are still an oasis of quaint Victorian Era buildings, on sidestreet virtually right in the middle of Toronto’s busy Theatre/Nightclub/Rrestaurant/Entertainment District.
Present Tower View (2010) will be blocked by new Theatre Festival Development by 2011.