Toronto area-ish fish stores
 

What are some good recommendations?
thinking about purchasing there and shipping it back to etown.

Depends what your looking for

Reef Raft (great for rare coral)
Oakville Reef Gallery
SeaUMarine (great fish selection)
North American Fish Breeders

these are the main ones i go to.

Depends on when you're coming too. There's a smaller shop downtown that gets neglected by 99% of reefers in Toronto called Menagerie. They specialize mainly in nano-friendly livestock, but they do get some really neat stuff that none of the other stores order :)