Ontario is the most populous and second-largest in area of Canada's ten provinces. It is found in east-central Canada. Its capital is Toronto. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario. As of July 1, 2005 there are 12,541,410 Ontarians (resident of Ontario), representing approximately 37.9% of the total Canadian population and an area of 1,076,395km² (415,598 sq. mi.). Ontario - Geography. Further information: List of Ontario counties Ontario is bounded on the nor ...

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Central Ontario is the portion of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies between Georgian Bay and a portion of the north shore of Lake Ontario. The population estimate was 879,514 in 2003. It is located entirely within Southern Ontario. Central Ontario is not geographically close to the actual 'centre' of Ontario as its name would indicate but in the transitional area between Northern and Southern Ontario, although it is a sub-region of the south. Simcoe, Dufferin, the City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland County and Peterborough County are within Central Ontario, but also overlap into the no ...

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Cobalt is a town in the district of Timiskaming, province of Ontario, Canada, with a population of 1,221, and an area of 2.11 square kilometres. Population density is 582.9 per square kilometre. It was recently designated as Ontario's most historic town by a panel of judges on the TV Ontario program "Studio 2". Cobalt is know as the Silver Capital of Canada. The history of this town dates back to 1903. It is the town that started the mineral exploration of Northern Ontario. Today the area is alive with diamond exploration. The potential for a diamond mine opening in the area is great. In 2001 the town voted overwhe ...

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Western Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. It extends north to south from Lake Huron to Lake Erie, and east to west roughly from Kitchener to Windsor. Other cities in the region are Ingersoll, Sarnia, St. Thomas, Stratford, and Woodstock; some definitions reach eastward to as far as Brantford, Guelph or Orangeville, but more recently these cities and towns are included in the growing Greater Golden Horseshoe region. Western Ontario is geographically speaking not in the west of Ontario, but it constitutes the western portion of the origina ...

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Ontario - Pre-1867. Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian (Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin) and Iroquoian (Iroquois and Huron) tribes. The French explorer Étienne Brûlé explored part of the area in 1610-12. The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England, but Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615 and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes. French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois, who would ally themsel ...

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Corbeil, Ontario is a small community on the La Vase River east of North Bay, Ontario. It is situated on the junction of Highway 17 and Highway 94. It is located in the Township of East Ferris in the District of Nipissing. It is where Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston lives and works and is the birthplace of the Dionne Quintuplets. It was also the place of residence for Canada's oldest person on record from 1915 to 1998, when Marie-Louise Meilleur passed away at 117. She lived at the Nippising Manor Nursing Home. Corbiel is 55km west

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Cardinal is a village in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville of eastern Ontario situated on the Saint Lawrence River. The village is situated in the township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal. The village, originally known as Point Cardinal, used to be the site of a canal which bypassed the Galop Rapids. The canal was no longer required after the construction of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. A plant that produces corn starch is located at Cardinal. ...

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 - City (2001)  - Canadian Municipal Rank  - Density 325,428 Ranked 16th 1221.0/km² Brampton, Ontario is a city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of the Peel Regional Municipality. As of June 2005, Brampton's population stood at approximately 415,000, and it is estimated that by the year 2031, the city population will have almost doubled to 680,000 people. As one of Canada's fastest growing cities, the municipality has found it difficult to cope ...

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Bancroft is a town on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario. As of 2001, the population was 4,089. In 1996, the population was 4,080 (-0.2% population change). The area of the town was 227.85 square kilometres. Bancroft Ontario - Attractions. Located in Ontario's Haliburton Hills, part of the Canadian Shield, Bancroft is well known in Canada as an excellent location for rockhounding. Bancroft styles itself as the "mineral capital of Canada" and holds an annual event in August ...

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Zephyr is a small community in Durham Region, in Uxbridge Township Ontario Canada located northwest of the former town of Uxbridge. Zephyr is located north of the Oak Ridges Moraine and is accessed with roads linking to Uxbridge and Udora and linking Mount Albert Road and to Oakwood and Lindsay. Other roads include Ravenshoe Road to located about 4 km the north and Lake Ridge Road to the east and Davis Drive further south. The downtown streets include John and Dafoe Streets. The nearest superhighway is Highway 404 to the southwest loc ...

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Bala is an unincorporated Canadian place located in Muskoka Lakes Township where the Moon River enters Lake Muskoka. It is considered one of the hubs of cottage country located north of Toronto, Ontario. Thus, its year-round population of several hundred is swamped by thousands of seasonal residents and day-trippers. Bala Ontario - History. It was settled by Thomas Burgess starting in 1868. It is named after and now officially twinned with the Welsh town of Bala in the United Kingdom. Located ...

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Brantford was an important Canadian industrial center for the first half of the 20th century, and was once the third largest city in Ontario. The city is at the deepest navigable point of the Grand River and was once the railroad hub of Southern Ontario. The combination of water and rails helped Brantford develop from a farming community into a blue collar industrial city based on the agriculture implement industry centred around companies such as Massey Harris and the Cockshutt Plow Company. This industry, more than any other, provided the well paying and steady employment that allowed Brantford to sustain econ ...

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Oshawa is headquarters to General Motors of Canada, which has large-scale manufacturing and administrative operations in the city and employs many thousands both directly and indirectly. Large divisions of the Ontario Ministry of Finance occupy one of the few major office buildings in the city's downtown, which continues to struggle despite promising business improvement efforts. The city's southern neighbourhoods tend to be considerably poorer than its northern sections, which are rapidly expanding as Toronto commuters move in. The s ...

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Oshawa is home to the Oshawa Generals OHL (Ontario Hockey League) team, which is the top level for players aged 15 - 20. Famous Alumni of this team include Bobby Orr and Eric Lindros. The Oshawa Generals have the dubious distinction of having their home arena destroyed by fire not once, but twice in the franchise history. In June 1928 the Bradley Arena was destroyed by fire. Then 25 years later, the ...

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This section summarizes the full entry found at History of Hamilton, Ontario, and stops in 1945. Hamilton Ontario - History to 1913. The Iroquois Confederacy or Five (later Six) Nations first occupied the land now covered by Hamilton. French explorers made transient visits to the area, but major European settlement did not begin until United Empire Loyalists arrived around the American Revolution and War of 1812. In the latter conflict, Britain defeated American invaders at the Bat ...

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Despite its reputation as a blue-collar, lunch-bucket town, Hamilton has a large variety of historical, cultural and educational attractions in addition to more conventional or lowbrow ones. Hamilton Ontario - Historical attractions. Canadian Warplane Heritage, static and flying museum, Mount Hope airport Dundurn Castle, including the Hamilton Military Museum and Dundurn Park, west end Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology, east end Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage ...

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Politically, Hamilton is known for producing groundbreaking, colourful and left-wing politicians — illustrated by the polarizing and erratic career of Sheila Copps. Locally, though, the big political stories have included the controversial amalgamation of Hamilton with its suburbs in 2001, and the destruction of green space around the Red Hill Valley to make way for the Red Hill Creek Expressway. ...

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Ontario was founded on June 11, 1883 developers by William Morfitt, Mary Richardson, Daniel Smith, and James Virtue, in anticipation of a railroad planned to go through that part of the state. It was named after Virtue's home province of Ontario in Canada. Ontario was incorporated in 1896. ...

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