TORONTO – Canada’s largest Doors Open event is back and shining the spotlight on Toronto’s secret spaces.
The 15th annual Doors Open Toronto – dubbed “Secrets and Spirits: Exploring the mysteries behind the door” – will allow art and architecture enthusiasts the chance to explore supposedly haunted tunnels, bank vaults, an underground bowling alley and a secret tomb hidden in one of Toronto’s churches.
Doors Open events give residents and tourists alike the opportunity to peak behind the curtain and get inside access to buildings normally shuttered to the public.
Toronto’s annual event is one of the three largest in the world. It takes place on May 24 and 25 at 155 locations across the city.
New to the schedule this year are paranormal walking tours of Hogtown’s “ghostly” haunts, including a tour of the Historic Distillery District, the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (Toronto’s oldest landmark) and “paranormal hotspots” at Exhibition Place (you may want to check it out before the site looks drastically different).
According to city officials, Doors Open has brought more than two million visitors to Toronto’s storied buildings since the event’s inception in 2000.
In past years, visitors could tour the city’s first fireproof building (Hotel Victoria), walk the six acre grounds and courtrooms of Osgoode Hall, view the Town of York’s oldest house (Campbell House, built in 1822 and moved from its original location to the corner of Queen St. W and University Ave. in 1972), and imagine historic politicking in not one, not two, but three of Toronto city halls.
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A full list of participating buildings and program details will be posted on the city’s Doors Open website in April.
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