Henrietta Hippo

The Sights of Toronto Courtesy of Henrietta Hippo

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August 22nd 2007
Again, we did a tour to get an overview of the city. Where America has their Duck Tours, Toronto has something similar called a Hippo Tour. Our hippo was called Henrietta Hippo and she could take us on both land and water. The water piece was a bit of a token gesture however - just around a marina, whilst we’d hoped it would go out to the Toronto Islands. One interesting fact we noted on the t ... read more

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A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more