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Six top hotels in Toronto for all tastes

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Toronto, like many North American cities, was shaped first by waterways and then by railways. Its location along the shore of Lake Ontario seems somewhat arbitrary today. The settlement emerged as the junction of an aquatic highway, the river and portage route that first carried Aboriginal people and then European traders between the southern and northern great lakes.