Report ONTARIO - CANADA
THOUSAND ISLANDS: The Thousand Islands are an archipelago which straddles the Canadian-US border stretching for about 80 km in the Saint Lawrence River. There are 1,864 islands in various sizes. The casino is located on Highway 2 in Gananoque and is open seven days various hours and is just 10 minutes from the US border. There are 480 slots and 22 table games, restaurant and bar.
THUNDER BAY: This city is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario with 108,000 people and takes its name from the immense Thunder Bay at the head of Lake Superior. The casino is open seven days various hours and features 450 slots and 14 table games.
• CHARITY CASINO
GREAT BLUE HERON CASINO is located in Port Perry which is less than an hour northeast of Toronto in the territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. The casino is 25,000sq.ft and there are 545 TITO enabled slots and 60 table games and is open 24/7. There are two restaurants and two bars.
The casino opened in 1997 and began as an Indian Gaming venue which then turned into an agreement with Casinos Austria International and its local partner Steiner Group and Sonco Gaming who developed and now operate the casino on their behalf. Since it began the tribe have
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Municipal
governments in racetrack home
communities earn around five per cent of the net
revenues and the balance goes to the OLGC. In 2010
the racing industry in Ontario earned $333m in
commissions of
which $169m went to racetrack
operators and
$164m to purses for racing.
donated over $3m to Scugog Township and various charities.
• RESORT CASINOS
CASINO NIGARA opened its doors in December 1996 and offers non stop 24/7 entertainment at the heart of the Niagara Tourism area. There are 1,500 slots including 350 progressive slots and 40 table games and the largest poker room in Ontario with 12 tables. The gaming area is 95,000 sq.ft and there are also four restaurants, live entertainment and a sport section. The casino is owned by the government via the OLG but operated by a consortium of five companies under the header of the Falls Management Group LP. This company owns two casinos the Casino Niagara and Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.
NIAGARA FALLSVIEW CASINO RESORT is built on a cliff overlooking the world famous Horseshoe Falls and is the largest and most elegant gaming resort facility in Canada. It cost $1bn to build and opened in June 2004 and is a 20 minute walk from sister casino, Casino Niagara. There are 3,000 slots, 130 tables and a poker room. The resort has a 374 room hotel, spa and fitness centre, shops, restaurants and a theatre. It was the single largest investment made by the government of Ontario to date.
CASINO RAMA was opened in July 1996 just north of Toronto near Orillia and is
Ontario’s only First Nation’s commercial casino and is operated by Penn National Gaming Inc. There are 2,500 slots, 110 table games, 10 restaurants and a 5,000 seat entertainment centre. The gaming area is 90,000sq.ft in size whilst the hotel has 300 rooms. The resort casino is the largest single employer of aboriginal people in Canada and sees around 8,000 visitors per day or close to three million per year.
CAESARS WINDSOR is operated by Windsor Casino Limited a consortium which was established in 1993 and the casino opened its doors in May 1994 as an interim casino permanently opening in July 1998. It was Ontario’s first Las Vegas style casino and at the time featured 5,000 sq.ft of gaming on three floors. It has since been revamped and in 2008 when Harrah’s (one of two equal shareholders) changed its company name to Caesars so too was the casino re- branded and called Caesars Windsor.
Today the size of the gaming floor is 100,000 sq.ft and there are 2,300 slots and 91 tables on two floors of gaming plus World Series of Poker. The hotel is made up of two towers featuring 758 guestrooms with four Diamond status and includes a 10,000 sq.ft natural atrium fitness centre, a 100,000 sq.ft convention centre and a 5,000 seater theatre called The Colosseum which is the largest in the Caesar Entertainment family. The casino sees around four million visitors annually.
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