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Toronto's docks once disfigured the shoreline on the edge of the city centre, a swath of warehouses and factories that was unattractive and smelly in equal measure. Today it's another story: the port and its facilities have been concentrated further east, beyond the foot of Parliament Street, while the waterfront west of Yonge has been redeveloped in grand style, sprouting luxury condominium blocks, jogging and cycling trails, offices, shops and marinas. The focus of all this activity is the Harbourfront Centre , between York and Simcoe, whose various facilities include an open-air performance area and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Tues & Thurs-Sun noon-6pm, Wed noon-8pm; $4, but free on Wed after 5pm), housed in an imaginatively converted 1920s power station. The gallery presents about a dozen exhibitions of contemporary art every year and often features emerging Canadian artists. It is mostly cutting-edge stuff, indecipherable to some, exciting to others. The gallery shares the power station with the du Maurier Theatre Centre . Close by, just to the west, another former warehouse has been turned into the York Quay Centre with performance areas, meeting spaces and craft galleries. The south entrance of the Centre lets out to a shallow pond that converts into a skating rink during the winter. To the west is Molson Place , an outdoor stage with a graceful fan-like roof designed to suggest a ship's deck. To reach the Harbourfront Centre by public transport, take the #509 or #510 streetcar from Union Station and get off at the third stop - Queens Quay Terminal.
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