Category: Ontario

Canadian province of Ontario. The name of Lake Ontario is derived from ontarí:io, a Huron word meaning “great lake.” The Canadian province of Ontario was later named after the lake. Was Ontario named after Lake Ontario? “Beautiful Lake” The water-based origin of Ontario’s name is appropriate, given there are more than 250,000 lakes in the […]

Food and beverage manufacturing With manufacturing revenue of $36.9 billion, Ontario is one of North America’s largest and most significant food and beverage processing sectors. We have nearly 3,000 registered food and beverage businesses. What is the main industry of Ontario? Services industry Although Ontario is a manufacturing powerhouse, the services sector is the largest […]

Main Reasons They Entered Confederation o Canada promised them financial help to build roads and services, and a railroad to transport goods and people to and from the East. power as the smallest province of Canada. to join. British landowners and to pay their debts for building a railway. When and why did Ontario join […]

Ontario is home to soybeans and corn for grain In 2021, there were 2.8 million acres of soybeans. Corn for grain is another major crop grown in Ontario, which made up 59.9% of Canada’s total corn for grain area, up from 59.8% in 2016. What is largest crop sector in Ontario? In 2016, Ontario accounted […]

Ontario is part of the North American manufacturing heartland. Examples of Ontario’s key manufacturing industries include autos, information and communications technologies, biotech, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. What are Canada’s 3 main types of industries? Canada is a highly developed nation with one of the largest economies in the world, impacting much of global trade. Its […]

Ontario is home to some of Canada’s top universities and colleges, leaders in innovation and research. International students can gain a competitive edge as degrees, diplomas and certificates received in Ontario’s universities and colleges are held in high esteem across Canada and recognized worldwide. Why do international students choose Ontario? Ontario has the largest number […]

The game of hockey as we know it today was developed at McGill in 1875. McGill University, 1881. Hockey was also played in Kingston, Ontario, in 1843. Sir Arthur Freeling, then a first lieutenant stationed in Kingston, organized games for his men and wrote about them in his diary. Is Kingston the birthplace of hockey? […]

Between 100,000 and 80,000 years ago, all of Ontario was covered by a glacier – a thick sheet of ice (Figure 2). When were glaciers last in Ontario? The Last Ice Age The most recent ice age that affected North America started about 2.58 million years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago (in southern […]

However, while lakes are fed by rivers, they are also drained by them. “The Great Lakes are not (noticeably) salty because water flows into them as well as out of them, carrying away the low concentrations of minerals in the water,” writes Michael Moore of Toronto. Is there salt water in Lake Ontario? Lake Ontario […]

Dec 10th, 1891. On Dec 10th, 1891, Ontario was incorporated as a city of the sixth class under the California Constitution. What came first Ontario CA or Ontario? It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey. […]