Bruce Bell Tours
(647) 393-8687
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Tour 1- St. Lawrence Market/Old Town Tour
Includes: St Lawrence Market-St Lawrence Hall
St James' Cathedral-King Edward Hotel (when both are available)
$25 per person -2 hours
-Reservations are a must-
Tours run Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri and Saturday 10am
Reserve a space now (647) 393-8687
(for cancelation policy see last line on page)
(please always include a phone contact number in your email to Bruce)
Click link to see Bruce talking about St Lawrence Market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arPGZSr3ml4
This unique two hour tour includes a guided walk through St Lawrence Market hearing about its fascinating 200 year history. Then after covering the Market we’ll go walk around Old Town Toronto including stops at: St Lawrence Hall, King Edward Hotel, St. James Cathedral as well as various historical sites along the way. This tour is $25 per person. The price for groups of 10 or more is $20 per person. Tickets can be purchased in advance or on the same day at the Souvenir Market just inside main entrance of St. Lawrence Market.
St Lawrence Market is located at 91 Front Street East on the southwest corner of Jarvis and Front Streets, two blocks east of Yonge Street. This tour runs year round every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 10am with reservations. Wheelchair accessible. Reservations are a must as it tends to book up quickly, also NOTE that St Lawrence Market is CLOSED on Sundays and Mondays
The Saturday tour includes me giving a special 15-20 minute slide show presentation on the history of St Lawrence Market in the New Market Kitchen before the tour begins.
To reserve please call 647-393-8687
MEETING PLACE : As soon as you enter the main Front Street centre archway of South St Lawrence Market there is a Souvenir Shop on the left hand side where you can buy your tickets. There is a life-size cardboard cut-out of a Canadian Mountie, I will meet you there. I will have my cel phone with me if you need to get ahold of me (647) 393-8687 .
MEETING PLACE: Arrow shows main entrance to St. Lawrence Market, map shows location of the market and photo of Bruce standing next to Mountie
www.stlawrencemarket.com St. Lawrence Market
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Tour 2- Gooderham & Worts Distillery- 2 hours
$25 per person (minimum of $100)
Groups of 10 or more people - $20 per person
Book now (647) 393-8687 (minimum of $100)
(please always include a phone contact number in your email to Bruce)
Learn of the fascinating history (the site dates back to 1832) of this incredible factory complex with its original cobblestone pathways including the years it was visited by 1920’s gangsters during the heyday of Prohibition. The tour ends with a walk through Corktown, now a highly sought after residential and business district of Toronto it was once the great Irish slum of 19th Century Toronto when thousands of starving Irish refugees escaping the horrors of the famine back in Ireland came to our shores looking for a better way of life. MEETING PLACE-The main gates to the Distillery at 55 Mill Street. PAYMENT: You pay me on the day of the tour before we begin our walk.
Bruce leading the Canadian Tour Guide Association through the Historic Distillery District
Map showing Main Gates to the Distillery
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PHOTOS
Bruce and friends with master architect Frank Gehry posing in front of the his new Art Gallery of Ontario -April 2007
Former Toronto Mayor David Crombie, Bruce Bell and Toronto historian Mike Filey
Bruce with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley at St Lawrence Market
Bruce with the Chinese Women' Curling Team
Left to right Alan Seymore, Toronto Mayor David Miller, Bruce Bell and Toronto Councillor Pam McConnell at the announcement of the new North Market competition
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For the tourist who thinks they have seen it all! Take a unique walking tour of Toronto, Canada's largest and most ethnically diverse city with Bruce Bell one of Toronto's foremost historians and tour guides. He will take you to places that even locals don't even know about including the hidden gems often overlooked in guide books. Toronto's not so well known and it's great attractions are yours to discover with Bruce who has legions of fans worldwide who come back again and again to take his one-of-a-kind tour.
Watch Bruce on HGTV talking about One King West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdCM7CHLLI&feature-player_embedded#!
So just tell Bruce what you would like to see and he will get you therereturn to homepage www.brucebelltours.ca
Cancelation Policy: In most cases I do not require a deposit however if a deposit is required and you cancel the tour 48 hours before the agreed time and date you will (in most cases) receive 75% of your deposit returned. However, if you cancel the tour after the 48 hour notice (i.e. same day cancelation) no refund will be returned, but you will receive a credit note for another time or gift certificate