Toronto has a habit of renaming things
Be they buildings or public spaces, often as a corporate branding exercise.
Sometimes you just need to know what something was called before its reincarnation, thus this formerly list of names:
- Rogers Centre formerly known as the Skydome
- The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts formerly known as the Hummingbird Centre formerly known as the O'Keefe Centre
- The Scotiabank Theatre formerly known as The Paramount
- The Canon Theatre formerly known as the Pantages Theatre formerly known as the Imperial Six formerly just The Imperial began its career as a venue in show business as the Pantages Theatre
- The CN Tower (Canada's National Tower) formerly known as the CN Tower (Canadian National Tower)
- The Fairmont Royal York Hotel formerly known as the Royal York Hotel
- Toronto formerly known as Metropolitan Toronto
- Sound Academy formerly The Docks
- Toronto Botanical Garden formerly Edwards Gardens