Jordan Wosnick - 22 April 2007

We live in Toronto, Canada. I grew up here, but spent about 10 years away, eventually moving back about three years ago. Since then, I've had a great time getting re-acquainted with the city and exploring it together with my wife, who is from Ottawa (Canada's capital).

Toronto is a big city in every way. The metropolitan area has a little over five million people (about one-sixth of the entire population of Canada). Because a lot of newcomers to Canada end up living in Toronto, it's also a very diverse city, with something like 40% percent of residents being from visible-minority groups. Many dozens of nationalities and hundreds of languages are represented -- and with very rare exceptions, everyone gets along very well. We have a great cultural scene, lots to do, and a lot of green space. All of this makes Toronto a very liveable city.

Toronto sits on the shores of Lake Ontario, a large freshwater lake that is something like an inland ocean (it's about half the size of Belgium). There are a few islands in the lake just across from downtown Toronto, with some homes and recreational areas that are popular with city-dwellers. On this particular "day in photos" -- an unusually warm day for April -- we decided to spend the morning on Ward's Island, off the eastern end of downtown Toronto.

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