4 Hours In...Toronto

Summers the best time to pay a visit to this buzzing Canadian city, with its high-rise skyline and international outlook.

- Jenny Southan

1 Art Gallery of Ontario

Toronto has some seriously long roads (Yonge Street stretches 86km), but by focusing on certain parts of the city you’ll find it is walkable. Begin your tour at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which was revamped ten years ago by Frank Gehry. It has a permanent collection of more than 95,000 works, with exhibitions spanning European masters from the 1600s to 20th-century North American painters. Head for the section on the Group of Seven, a collective of artists from the 1920s to 30s who depicted the country’s landscapes in beautiful colours. Look out for Above Lake Superior by Lawren S Harris, Th e Cloud, Red Mountain by Frederick H Varley, and Falls, Montreal River by J E H MacDonald. The gallery describes them as giving a “unique artistic voice” to Canada. ago.ca

2 Kensington Market