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Since 2020 Canada has gained five casino hotels. Two more are rising now, and some older resorts are halfway through big makeovers. Below is every one of them, with the date it opened and its room count as the operator or a named outlet put it, and a link to that report.
Built on the old Rideau Carleton raceway-casino site for $350 million, and pitched by Hard Rock as the first fully integrated Hard Rock in the country. The floor never closes (1,500-plus slots), Council Oak is the steakhouse, and up to 2,200 fit in Hard Rock LIVE. Under-19s can't enter at all.
Opened 3 July 2025
Ottawa, Ontario · 150 rooms, 22 of them suites · details from Hard Rock newsroom
Formerly Casino Woodbine, now a racetrack-side resort: a 5,000-capacity theatre; sauna, steam and pool; no charge to park; a complimentary Pearson shuttle.
Hotel opened 1 Aug 2023 (casino 20 Jun 2023)
Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario · 400 rooms, suites included · details from Mann Report
Great Canadian built it as part of a $500 million resort on Toronto's eastern side. Room sizes range 388–775 sq ft, and there are 22 accessible rooms. Opening-day counts: 2,200 slots, more than 90 live tables. Seats in the arena-theatre: 2,500.
Opened 16 January 2023
Pickering, Ontario · 275 rooms, 33 of them suites · details from newswire.ca
The casino belongs to the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, and it declared the hotel complete on 1 November 2021. Room counts disagree. Wikipedia: 100. Travel listings: 116. Operator: no figure. The Nest, its event space, holds up to 800.
Hotel finished November 2021
Scugog Island near Port Perry, Ontario · Around 100 rooms (counts differ) · details from Wikipedia
Twenty minutes or so from Saskatoon, joined to Dakota Dunes Casino. Whitecap Dakota First Nation is the owner and Atlific Hotels the manager. Ribbon cut 8 October 2020; meeting space of 10,000 sq ft; farm-to-table kitchen.
Opened October 2020
Whitecap Dakota First Nation, south of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · 155 rooms · details from staymagazine.ca
Eighteen storeys with between 230 and 240 rooms (over 30 suites), two waterslides in a new pool and a large ballroom, rising beside today's 249-room hotel. Its shell was done by June 2026.
Target: July 2027
Enoch, at the edge of Edmonton, Alberta · details from staymagazine.ca
It will replace Gateway's casino at Georgian Downs. BlogTO's September 2026 report describes live tables, 1,000-plus slots and a hotel seven storeys high, around 150,000 sq ft in total.
Under construction, no date given
239 Reive Blvd by Highway 400, Innisfil, Ontario · details from blogto.com
The Ottawa Hard Rock, on 3 July 2025.
Yes, a pair. Cascades Casino and Hotel is going up for Gateway in Innisfil, Ontario (no date yet); in Enoch, Alberta, River Cree's 18-storey tower is due July 2027.
Pickering Casino Resort Hotel, 275 rooms, opened in January 2023; Great Canadian Toronto's 400-room hotel followed in August.