Classic Distillery District Walking Tour
Fascinating History From Talented Toronto Tour Guides
Classic Distillery District Walking Tour
You'll Love our Classic!- Duration: Approx. 60 Minutes
- Booking Times: 11:30am & 3:30pm Tuesday – Sunday
- 2022 Bookings available now with dates starting January 4th.
- Price: $21 + HST per person
- Tour Size: 1 Min – 15 Max Participants
- Fully accessible route upon request.
Called “One of Toronto’s Top 10 Walking Tours” by BlogTO, join us year-round for the story of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery. This tour is COVID-safe and takes place completely outside to reduce any potential exposure during the Omicron wave.
Experience the explosive history of the world’s once largest Distillery – and find out how the Gooderham and Worts Distillery transformed into the modern day Distillery District.
Toronto’s history is far more fascinating than many give credit. Our expert guides will interpret this rich history through the lens of Gooderham and Worts – and how they became the world’s largest distillery.
Along the way we’ll show you some of the best hidden Distillery District spots and photo locations.
Featuring both indoor* and outdoor areas, this tour is designed to as a fun, modern historical narrative that can be enjoyed by everyone.
Note: Your tour guide can follow a fully accessible route upon request.
Prohibition and Whisky History Tour
North America's Wild Prohibition Past Comes to Toronto.
- Duration: Approx 1 Hour and 20 Minutes
- Time: 1:30pm Saturday
- Price: $49 + HST per person
- Cost includes all tastings
- Tour Size: 2 Min – 10 Max per tour
- Participants must be 19 or older w/ valid ID to join the tasting
Just what is Toronto’s Prohibition history? Our Prohibition and Whisky Tour aims to answer this question.
While the American Prohibition era was dominated by names like Al Capone and the Real McCoy – they had to get their booze from somewhere. Enter the Gooderham and Worts Distillery.
Our Toronto Whisky History tour fills in the gaps of how social strife led to the rise of Prohibition in Canada and the United States. And how the Gooderham and Worts distillery supplied millions of gallons of booze to both countries.
Our expert guide will also tell you about the legal loopholes that allowed Canada’s alcohol industry to flourish – even if it was technically illegal to drink liquor.
Your tour concludes with a beginner level whisky tasting. While some Toronto Whisky Tours focus on advanced tastings, our tour is built for everyone to enjoy!
Note: Your tour guide can follow a fully accessible route upon request.
Distillery Tasting Tour
An Evening of Great Stories and Delicious Bites!
There are few things more beautiful than the Distillery District at night. That’s why we’ve launched the new Distillery Nights Walking Tour.
Delight your mind with intriguing stories of years past while your taste buds rave at local favourites Ontario Spring Water Sake, Soma Chocolate and Mill St. Brewery. Your tastings start with perfectly paired vegetarian bites and Sake before continuing on to a sweet experience at Soma and a final cheers at Mill Street’s Beer Hall.
During the tour, you’ll dive into the history of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery. Find out how it became the world’s largest distillery while immersing yourself in gorgeous 1800’s Architecture. During your walk, our expert Tour Guides will bring you through 200 years of compelling history between Tastings.
Start a magical evening in the Distillery District by booking your tour now.
Cancellation Policy
To ensure the highest quality experience, we strongly recommend reservations. When you reserve a tour, we schedule our highly trained guides and support staff to make your Walking tour as amazing as possible. For this reason we require a minimum of 24 hours notice for cancellations and rescheduling of tours. If you fail to meet your appointment, we still incur the same expenses and may have turned others away. Therefore, those guests who fail to show for a reservation or cancel without proper notice will be charged the full tour price for the reserved spaces.
COVID-19 Cancellation Policy: If you or anyone in your reservation are exhibiting ANY symptoms of COVID-19 please contact us immediately. We will offer a full refund for your tour.
Weather Policy
We can operate Walking Tours in almost any weather conditions and can keep the tour 85% indoors. We will not operate Walking tours in hazardous storms with severe thunder and lightning, moderate-heavy rain, or snowy conditions that could be hazardous. We reserve the right to cancel your tour if presented with inclement circumstances. Please call first if you have concerns about the weather. We will call only if we are certain you tour will not run, in which case you will be refunded if re-scheduling is unavailable.
Locate Us
11 Gristmill Lane Toronto Ontario M5A 3C4
(416) 677-3831
About Go Tours Canada
Go Tours Canada is an award-winning tour company with locations at Toronto's Distillery District and Ontario Place. Since 2005 we've provided visitors to Toronto with premium Walking and Segway Tours. With over 120,000 participants trained on Segways, we are one of the world's leading Segway Tour experts.