Heritage

As part of the Rebuilding Ontario Place Act, 2023, Ontario Place was exempted from the Ontario Heritage Act. Which means the Ontario Place redevelopment is no longer subject to any heritage requirements or government approvals. Regardless of the exemption, the government is committed to retaining, restoring, and adaptively reusing the Pod- complex and Cineshphere.

Illustration of cinesphere

Are there archaeological sites at Ontario Place?

The province has completed a Stage 1 and 2 archaeological assessments of the site. These studies confirmed that the islands are artificial, consist of urban fill and do not contain any archaeological resources.

A marine assessment has been completed for the Ontario Place property and concluded that most of the lakebed was disturbed by the construction of the Ontario Place Islands.