Toronto on Street View

How to recognise the city from a panorama

Canada differs from the US in bilingual signage, green route markers with rounded corners and yellow Ontario plates. Toronto is heavy on red brick and external fire escapes.

What the streets look like

Red brick dominates, external fire escapes are common, and wide carriageways carry a yellow centre line. Cables run along wooden poles beside the street.

How to tell it from lookalikes

Bilingual signage, green shields with rounded corners and yellow Ontario plates separate it from US cities. From Vancouver it differs by the absence of mountains.

Useful details

Tram tracks run down the middle of the road downtown, with red-and-white streetcars. Street plates are blue with white text and a compass direction.

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Country giveaways

A quick check when the panorama looks unfamiliar: these signs are visible almost anywhere in the city.

Country	Canada
Driving side	right-hand
Licence plates	white · rear plate only
Script on signs	Latin
Currency	CAD $
Time zone	UTC−5/−4
Domain	.ca

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