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Featuring many unusual details, including fireplaces and alcove windows, the owners of this lovingly restored Victorian mansion aim to make guests feel as though they have stepped into an English country inn. To further the illusion, there’s a pub next door.

In a region known primarily for its white wines, this organic vineyard produces excellent reds. A tasting room is set amid huge production tanks.

Movie theaters and shops such as Indigo Books, Birks jewelers, Teuscher Chocolates and Bay Bloor Radio will lure you to this mini-mall.

The sap of Ontario’s sugar maples is made into delicious pancake syrup and candies, sold at farmers’ markets and shops.

Local ingredients, subtly prepared, are the stars; Italian flavors add pep. The 1840s farmhouse setting has ambience galore, and a great view of Lake Ontario.

Artifacts and photographs of Toronto’s history are exhibited in free, themed shows, in the old council chamber tucked on the second floor of the South Market. See the market from a different perspective, through the large window looking out onto the floor.

Hugging Lake Ontario, the 12-mile (22 km) trail connects the waterfront parks and is popular with joggers, cyclists, and in-line skaters.

This grand dame of entertainment venues, opened in 1894, was the first dedicated music hall in Toronto with the stage space to accommodate large musical groups. Its 2,700 seats and superb acoustics provide a surprisingly intimate setting for jazz, blues, and folk shows; the Art Deco interior provides all the distraction you’ll need at intermission.

The outstanding Group of Seven collection is the treasure of this gallery. The Group endeavored, in the early 20th century, to express a distinctive national identity through their paintings of the Canadian wilderness (see McMichael Canadian Art Collection).

Located in Kleinburg, 18 miles (30 km) from downtown Toronto, this outstanding gallery features a stellar display of works by the seminal Group of Seven painters, their contemporaries such as Tom Thomson and Emily Carr, and the artists they inspired. The gallery also exhibits an impres- sive collection of First Nations and Inuit artists.