Canada's Wonderland
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| Slogan | Thrills Connect |
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| Location | Vaughan, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°50′30″N 79°32′35″W / 43.84167°N 79.54306°WCoordinates: 43°50′30″N 79°32′35″W / 43.84167°N 79.54306°W |
| Owner | Cedar Fair Entertainment Company |
| General Manager | Norm Pirtovshek, Vice President |
| Opened | 23 May 1981 |
| Previous names | Paramount Canada's Wonderland (1993–2006) |
| Operating season | late-April/early-May through late-October/early-November |
| Visitors per annum | 3,617,000 in 2015 |
| Area | 330 acres (130 ha) |
| Rides | |
| Total | 69 |
| Roller coasters | 16 |
| Water rides | 2 |
| Website | www |
Canada's Wonderland is a 330-acre (130 ha) theme park located in Vaughan, Ontario, a suburb approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Downtown Toronto. Opened in 1981 by the Taft Broadcasting Company and The Great-West Life Assurance Company as the first major theme park in Canada, it remains the country's largest. The park, currently owned by Cedar Fair, has been the most visited seasonal amusement park in North America for several consecutive years. As a seasonal park, Canada's Wonderland is open daily from May to September, with weekend openings in late April, October and early November. With sixteen roller coasters, Canada's Wonderland is ranked third in the world by number of roller coasters, after Six Flags Magic Mountain (19 coasters) and Cedar Point (17 coasters). The 330-acre (130 ha) park includes a 20-acre (8.1 ha) water park named Splash Works. The park holds Halloween Haunt, a Halloween-themed event, each fall.
The park was owned by Paramount Parks from 1993 to 2006 and operated as Paramount Canada's Wonderland. When Cedar Fair purchased the park in 2006, "Paramount" was dropped from the title. In 2015, it was the second most visited park in the Cedar Fair chain, behind Knott's Berry Farm, with about 3.62 million visitors.
When Canada's Wonderland was planned the region lacked a seasonal amusement park. Toronto had previously hosted two amusement parks which had roller-coasters, Sunnyside Amusement Park in the west end and Scarboro Beach Amusement Park in the east, but both were closed in the 1950s to build the Gardiner Expressway and housing developments, respectively.
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