By Pauline Frommer
Special to MSNBC.com
Updated: 12:14 p.m. MT Oct 17, 2006

Toronto is a chameleon of a city, the darling of the entertainment industry for its ability to look like, well, almost any large urban center in North America. It played Brooklyn in the movie “Moonstruck”, Chicago in “My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding” and “Chicago”, and Boston in “Good Will Hunting”, among other films. Does that make it a faceless, personality-free place? On the contrary, the “Little Apple” as many fondly call it, is fiercely cosmopolitan, with a bustling energy that recalls New York City (hence the nickname) and an internationalism that is unmatched in Canada. It boasts the largest Chinese population in North America, and has also welcomed thousands of Vietnamese people, Jamaicans, Indians, Somalians, Italians and others as well. The itinerary below will give you a taste of that multiculturalism as well as a glimpse of the city’s history and strong commitment to the arts.

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