It is a small park in downtown Toronto that provides a decent sitting place along with a huge food court underneath it. The park houses a number of sculptures. The most visible is the "mountain", an aluminum sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor.
Then there is 'Worker's Monument', which is a millennial project by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) that honors lives lost due to workplace accidents. Its 100 plaques describe the names of Ontario workers who lost their lives in work-related accidents from 1901 to 1999.
On the right side of the "Mountain", there is a metal shed with a metal table, an engraved map of Toronto harbor, and some surveying tools. This represents the initial housing of John Graves Simcoe and his family during their first winter in York (now Toronto).
General Simcoe was the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (Ontario), who besides founding the city of York is remembered for his institution-building efforts and abolition of slavery in Canada.
Below is the top view of Simcoe Park from CN Tower. It is from my 2013 visit to Toronto. Everything seems absolutely the same.
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