Toronto City Companion

Julie Rekai Rickerd is a Toronto-based broadcaster and public-relations
consultant.

In a mere 90 pages, this book gives visitors to Toronto all the
information they need to get to know and enjoy the city. The guide’s
“Arrival and Transportation” section describes the local airports,
gives airline telephone numbers, lists public transit routes and fares,
and discusses driving in terms of highways, speed limits, right turns on
red lights, parking, and rush hours—all the necessities that are
usually a total mystery to newcomers.

There are 24 first-rate street and transportation maps, which are
divided into highways, the Metro area, and Toronto proper; there is even
a map of the downtown underground walkway system. The chapters on
shopping, restaurants, and sight-seeing cover entertainment venues
ranging from theatres and concert halls to sports arenas. There are
explanations of taxes, bank hours, customs and immigration, and
emergency numbers, and the guide even includes a “dictionary” of
local expressions and spelling.

Toronto City Companion is exactly what it purports to be, “an
outstanding book that’s hard to beat for detail, simplicity and
practical information.”