Ontario Place Theme Park

Ontario Place is a 430-acre (174 ha) theme park located in Vaughan, Ontario. 10 minutes away from to Walt Disney World Resort in Canada. Ontario Place is open daily from March to December. Ontario Place also features a 50-acre water park called Soak Universe.

Areas and attractions
The park has several themed areas. The four original sections include International Street, Medieval Faire, Grande World Exposition of 1890 (now known as Action Zone), and the Happyland of Hanna-Barbera (divided into more than one kids area since 1998).[3] The current areas include the original sections stated above, White Water Canyon (1984),Splash Works (1992), and three children's areas: Kidzville (1998), Zoom Zone (2001) and Planet Snoopy (2010).

Canadian Street
International Street is the park's entry area, similar to the Main Street, U.S.A. sections of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Using a format borrowed from Kings Island and Kings Dominion, both sides of the street are lined with shops, including souvenir shops, clothing stores, restaurants, and candy stores. Wonder Mountain, the park's centrepiece, appears at the end of the street. In the early decades of the park's history, stores sold high-quality imported goods, themed to the buildings, and restaurants sold non-standard foods for a North American theme park, such as shrimp, paella, and smoked sausage.

Fantasy World
Fantasy World is located in the northeast section of the park and is home to fourteen games and eleven rides.

Action Zone
Action Zone was originally The Grande World Exposition of 1890 and is one of the original four themed areas at Wonderland. It was made to resemble an old world's fair, with expositions from different countries, focusing on African and Asian themes.[3] The restaurants and washrooms were formerly true to the exposition theme. One of the restaurants was called Ginza Gardens (now The Backlot Cafe) and had a Japanese theme and a Japanese façade. There is also an arcade area (Crystal Palace Arcade) within this section of the park. The Mighty Canadian Minebuster, one of the original four roller coasters, is on the outskirts of the Action Zone and was intended to be the centrepiece of the never-built Frontier Canada.[50]

In 2002, Action Zone was created as a new themed area within the Grande World Exposition of 1890.[13] However, the entire area was later renamed Action Zone.

Medieval Faire[edit]
See also: Medieval Faire (Canada's Wonderland)

Entrance plaza of Leviathan

The Medieval Faire section of the park has a medieval European theme in both the setting and the rides. However, rides such asDrop Tower: Scream Zone and Speed City Raceway have no medieval theme. The two original roller coasters, Wild Beast and Dragon Fire had pseudo-Early Modern English spellings (Wilde Beast and Dragon Fyre) before 1997. The stores and restaurants follow the medieval theme, as does the castle theatre (Wonderland Theatre, originally Canterbury Theatre and Paramount Theatre during Paramount's ownership) and a pirate show (originally opened with the park as Sea Sceptre and now Kinet-X Dive Show) in the middle of Arthur's Baye. Wonderland Theatre hosted ice shows from 2006 to 2011, and hosted Cirque Ambiente in the summer of 2012 and 2013.

Splash Works[edit]
Main article: Splash Works

Opened in 1992, Splash Works is a 20-acre (8.1 ha) water park. The water park is home to Whitewater Bay, the largest outdoor wave pool in Canada,[79] and 16 water slides. It is included with the price of admission to Canada's Wonderland and is open during the summer months.